Pinned
I can’t tell you how many times I almost didn’t publish this book even after I signed the contracts. And I’m so happy I did. Today is launch day - my first memoir, told in prose poetry. Buy it at your favourite indie or from @bookhugpress !
Zoe Whittall
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Zoe Whittall
@zoewhittall
CSA winning TV writer. Giller shortlisted novelist. Latest: Wild Failure. Reps: TLA (books) The Characters (TV, Canada) Thruline (TV, U.S.) Avail for TV rooms.
- Do any other 1980s children remember never, ever drinking water?
- Lesbians. We have to switch.Reminder: Lowe’s just donated 25 million to help minority owned businesses reopen. Home Depot founder donated 7 mil to Trump. Go to Lowe’s.
- A thing I wish I knew about Thoreau as a teenager was that his mother brought him sandwiches and Walden Pond was on her property. I think I might have made some different life choices had I understood that.
- I wish authors could get three close friends to blurb their books. “She was very depressed when she wrote this but she did it! We’re very proud. She has no other skills so we worry. Please buy this so she’ll stop talking about it.”
- It is a confusing thing to be born between generations where the one above thinks nothing is trauma and the one below things everything is trauma.
- What’s worse for our mental health, wearing masks or knowing that 90% of everyone around you doesn’t care if you die.
- When I got pregnant in February my biggest fear was miscarrying by myself during the pandemic. And that exact thing happened. My best friend did come over, now we’re a pod of sorts, being alone for the worst of it would have been impossible. I thought I knew what a miscarriage ..
- I'm still mad about it. I didn't get chased by guys yelling dyke, or have to physically step between an asshole and my butch partners more times than I can count while they yell "fucking dykes" at us, and then be told by a 20 something not to use the word dyke in my book.
- I can’t believe we have the choice between wearing masks and a slow, certain global extinction event and we’re choosing the latter.
- Replying to @zoewhittallAnyway I’m only writing about it here bc I feel like there should be more discussion about it? Also bc people have been so nice and offering baby things and I just want to be open about not needing that anymore.
- I was interviewed for an article with this exact same headline in 1995 and I’m not making that up for a bit.Opinion: ‘Going both ways’: Young women are increasingly identifying as bisexual, but what does that mean? theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
