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Category Archives: Adventure
Burning the Man
I opened the stage at Burning Man 2016 with this story. The crowd there liked it, and I hope you do too. It started off as a joke. People used say that it was the best week to get brunch, … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Cleverness, Ego, Kill it with fire, San Francisco, Uncategorized
Tagged Burning Man, Castro, default, Marin, Mission, moop, nevada, san francisco, Sausalito
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S E Q U E L
https://twitter.com/megelison/status/695073716284207104 I have been sitting on some good news for a while now and it took a lot of effort not to explode and just TELL EVERYONE all the time. But I made it. The deal is done. The sequel … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Books, Cleverness, Ego, Uncategorized
Tagged 47north, book of etta, daughters, feminist, gender, lecturing, midwife, neal stephenson, news, publish, seanan mcguire, sequel, the book of the unnamed midwife, writing
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9 Things I Wish I Had Known Before Burning Man
I’ve spent a lot of words here trying to define an experience that is ultimately indefinable. It’s something different for everyone, and you will likely have different wishes after your first burn.
It was the best and worst vacation I’ve ever had. Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Love, Remembrance, San Francisco
Tagged 2C-I, 60s, acne wash, advice, american gods, arrested, bentonite, bike, black rock city, bullshit, burner, Burning Man, carving fork, Chanting, clay, conviial, dark, desperate, dirty, DMT, Dr. Bronner's, dream, dust, enlightened, Frank Capra, goodbye, guide, hair, how do I get playa dust out of my hair, ineffable, John Candy, lisa frank, man burn, marijuana, mescaline, mushrooms, no-poo, performances, pershing county, personal, peyote, playa, rock star, temple burn, tequila sunrise, tiring, virgin, whippets
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NorWesCon 38: a Glorious Blur
Memory is the ghost of time trapped in meat and it doesn’t always work. It works even less when the meat is excited. First, an old friend. I was met at the hotel by my friend Julian. I have moved … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Books, Ego, Geekery, Love, travel
Tagged cherie priest, cosplay, emmi itaranta, falcor, George RR Martin, Gordon van Gelder, jennifer marie brissett, jonathan strahan, khaleesi, meat, meg elison, memory, moment, norwescon, Norwescon 38, NWC, obama, philip k dick, philip k dick award, pkd, rod duncan, skyrocketed, special citation, stone, sword, the book of the unnamed midwife, video
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Philip K. Dick Award Finalist
My debut novel, THE BOOK OF THE UNNAMED MIDWIFE, is on the shortlist for the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award. This is the coolest thing that has ever happened to me. I don’t know who nominated me, but I’m so … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Books, Love
Tagged award, coolest, fantasy, philip k dick, philip k dick award, scifi, the book of the unnamed midwife
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The Country Gentleman
There aren’t many choices when you’re a matronly 15 year old virgin who wants to be someone else. You can’t be the beautiful girl you’d literally kill to become. You’re also locked out of innocent ingénue, femme fatale, and cheerfully … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Cleverness, Fashion, Remembrance
Tagged coat, femme fatale, flask, goth, ingenue, maalox, manderley, maxim de winter, nerd, poet, slutty, teenage, the country gentleman, trappings
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Dressing to suit your own personal fable
You wore your hair in braids last night and now it’s doing that rippling thing that helps it to catch the sun. Leave it down. You have that loose dress that you never wear, but today’s the day. With the … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Cleverness, Fashion
Tagged aspecting, boots, BSG, cold, cosplay, dogtags, dress, fire, getty, gold, hair, identify, intimidating, kara thrace, mannish, mermaid, military surplus, outfit, personal fable, skirt, starbuck, sweetie, unbustable, wearing, witch, witches
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How to Read Your Novel in Public
Invite all your friends. Convince yourself that if the gathering is mostly friends, you will feel less nervous. Forget to warn them that your work is entirely unsuitable for children. Make friends with the kids who get brought along anyway. … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Books, Cleverness
Tagged dinosaurs, drink, friends, glory, lamy safari, Los Angeles, novel, planet of the apes, red fountain pen, tbotum, wine, writers
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The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
I wrote a book. I am a novelist. I started writing the story that would become The Book of the Unnamed Midwife last summer. I had the idea during finals and I set it aside, convinced that it would take … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Books, Cleverness, Love
Tagged a canticle for leibowitz, alas babylon, Amazon, apocalypse, birth control, buy, dystopia, feminism, FGM, group dynamics, novel, paypal, rape, rule of law, tbotum, thanks, the book of the unnamed midwife, the handmaid's tale, the walking dead, trigger warning, venmo, writer, y the last man, zombies
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Pretty Damned Good Day
I applied to speak at commencement about two weeks before the due date. I didn’t think I had any kind of a chance to win, but I tried really hard to avoid repeating anything I’ve said in my columns at … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Berkeley, Cleverness, Family, Love
Tagged 2014, @aguynamednam, Berkeley, challenge, commencement, english, fiat lux, giving the universe the finger, graduation, meg elison, meghan elison, nam le, speaker, speech, ucberkeley, viktor frankl, we are burning
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