This wasn't the comedy I expected when I first started reading it. Two college friends decide on a whim to travel around the world, deliberately choosing squalor over comfort. Traveling with casual friends is always a a challenge as personalities begin to clash over time. There is good charact...
Susan Jane Gilman grew up with hippy parents in New York in the 1970s, and fully embraced Madonna's style in the 1980's - only missing the opportunity to call her chapter about her teenage years "Desperately Seeking Susan". The stories she tells about her childhood and young adulthood reveal her ...
While I am feeding Petunia bits of bacon from the breakfast table, my publicist, Sheila, calls. “Bad news,” she says in her gritty, stuccoed voice. Two packs a day she smokes. If she can taste our ice cream at all, I’m Gina Lollobrigida. “It looks like we may have another ...
They were wearing white party dresses that looked like spun sugar and tiny crowns made of seed pearls. Most unbelievably, they each had on a real lace veil. Seeing them dressed like that made me spastic with envy.“Mom! Look at Carmella and Lisa!” I shouted, bouncing up and down and pointing. “Can...