Well, that’s unusual,” said the music supervisor. It was a late morning on a Tuesday in early February, and we were standing outside BLT Studios, a rentable soundstage in the middle of Hollywood. The nondescript building’s drab cinder block exterior paire... See more
The secret to Jenny Lawson’s success as a motivational writer is that she’d be the first to tell you how unqualified she is for the role. She’s not someone who has it all together. She’ll wash a load of laundry five times because she forgets to move it to... See more
May Cobb always wanted to be a writer, but the bestseller list didn’t seem a likely destination. The 52-year-old Longview native’s early instincts were hardly commercial. She studied Victorian literature for her master’s at San Francisco State University,... See more
The news broke in late September. I don’t remember exactly when I found out, but I know where I was, because I was on my living room couch, a piece of furniture I had barely left in the month and a half since my father died. Life had been a daze; it was h... See more
