Four years ago, my friend, Chris Estey, read an interview of mine in The Believer and was generous enough to write and tell me how much he enjoyed it. We didn't know each other at this point, but I was humbled and flattered, particularly as it was clear from the get go that he was quite talented and a good egg.
I was right on both counts. We continued to correspond and today I'm very good friends with Chris and his equally talented and kind wife, Heidi. (Track down her paintings; they're extraordinary.)
Chris, who writes for The Stranger and KEXP.org and scads of other venues, has an excerpt from his 'zine, Get Well, in Outsider Writers today. It's aching and lovely and I'd find it beautifully crafted no matter what, but when you read it, you'll see why it resonates even more so for me right now:
http://www.outsiderwriters.org/archives/3501
Much love to you and to Heidi, mon frere.
Litsa
Photo by Kymberlee della Luce
About Me
- Litsa Dremousis:
- My work appears in The Believer, BlackBook, Esquire, HuffPo, Jezebel, McSweeney's, Monkeybicycle, MSN, New York Magazine, Nerve, The Nervous Breakdown, Nylon, The Onion's A.V. Club, Paper, Paste, Poets & Writers, the Seattle Weekly, Slate, Aol's Spinner, on NPR, KUOW, and in sundry additional venues. Among others, I've interviewed Sherman Alexie, The Black Keys, Dan Boeckner, Augusten Burroughs, Billy Corgan, Betty Davis (the legendary, reclusive soul singer), Dead Can Dance, Death Cab for Cutie, Estelle, Ron Jeremy, Demetri Martin, Colin Meloy, Alanis Morissette, Tim Blake Nelson, the Posies, John Roderick, Lynn Shelton, Jesse Sykes, Wanda Sykes, John Vanderslice, Rufus Wainwright and Ann Wilson. My essay, "The Great Cookie Offering", appears in Seal Press' anthology, "Single State of the Union", I have a piece in Smith Magazine's HarperCollins anthology, "It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs" and I'm a winner of BlackBook's Hemingway Short Story Contest. I'm completing my first novel. YOU CAN CONTACT ME AT ldremousis at yahoo dot com and, if you want, follow me on Twitter @LitsaDremousis.
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