tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55987422024-03-07T19:43:59.757-08:00The Slippery FishArchives for Litsa Dremousis, 2003-2011. Current site: https://litsadremousis.com.
Litsa Dremousis is the author of Altitude Sickness (Future Tense Books). Seattle Metropolitan Magazine named it one of the all-time "20 Books Every Seattleite Must Read". Her essay "After the Fire" was selected as one of the "Most Notable Essays 2011” by Best American Essays, and The Seattle Weekly named her one of "50 Women Who Rock Seattle". She is an essayist with The Washington Post.Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.comBlogger867125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-28435254831304550032011-05-13T12:05:00.008-07:002014-09-19T11:37:00.426-07:00(In Progress) My Published Work So Far, Regularly Updated:As noted last month, I'm collecting my published work for one massive entry here. I'll update it as new work comes out, but won't write new posts for The Slippery Fish.
Archived work in reverse chronological order, mostly.
If you'd like to reach me, please contact me at ldremousis at yahoo dot com. My Facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/litsa.dremousis and I frolic on Twitter at http://Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-90334846067774137862011-04-17T17:08:00.000-07:002011-04-17T17:31:15.160-07:00Coming soon!For the past month, I've been gathering all links to my work so that I can archive them here in one comprehensive entry. If I get super-ambitious, I'll scan my print-only features to my Flickr account and toss those links into the mix, too. I hope to complete said project soon, then I'll update The Slippery Fish only when I have a new piece go online or hit the stands.'Tis best for two reasons: ILitsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-5217628969117570622011-04-08T09:11:00.000-07:002011-04-08T09:54:26.591-07:00Cross-dressing, bad foreplay, a math teacher gone wrong: my new essay for Nerve is here:I love the title my editor chose, "It's Always the Quiet Ones", and that the guy in the accompanying photo looks like Radiohead's Thom Yorke.Enjoying the responses this piece is garnering, even the one from a crazy dude.Can any amount of vertical compatibility make up for incompatibility in the sack? Let's see:http://www.nerve.com/love-sex/true-stories/true-stories-its-always-the-quiet-onesAlso, Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-86019516544063860942011-03-26T11:59:00.000-07:002011-03-26T12:21:33.707-07:00On Geraldine Ferraro:I remember being so excited when Walter Mondale added Geraldine Ferraro to the Democratic Presidential ticket in 1984. With three terms in House of Representatives, she didn't strike me as the most qualified to be VP, but neither was she the least. And she reinvigorated the Democrats in a way Mondale couldn't. (Mondale couldn't invigorate a birthday party. As Dennis Miller, back when he was funnyLitsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-69244830085492414402011-03-23T21:56:00.000-07:002011-03-23T22:00:04.735-07:00Whatever gets you through the night:In the West, we never embraced funeral pyres and the cultures that did have largely done away with them.Tonight, I would have to say this was a mistake. Count me as resolutely pro-funeral pyre.Also, pro-Nutella and Valium.Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-46331207337264565892011-03-23T10:03:00.000-07:002011-03-23T13:14:32.609-07:00Elizabeth Taylor RIPIn college, the above photo was among those I tacked on the bulletin board near my bed. A film buff, I was enamored of Giant, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Father of the Bride, Little Women and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. I was captivated by Elizabeth Taylor's talent and found her personal life eminently readable. No one who seemed both etched in marble and gloriously flesh and blood at sixteen, Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-36648244675123941632011-03-17T12:23:00.000-07:002011-03-17T12:48:17.484-07:00He's here!As of last night, I was authorized to reveal the great news!Please join me in welcoming George and Jennifer's new son, Mom and Dad's first grandchild and the beautiful little boy who has made me a Thia: Nixon Henri Dremousis! (I know, my dear lefty compadres, his first name won't thrill you, but our family is delighted, so try and focus on that.) He's seven pounds, 14 ounces, 21 inches and sportsLitsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-56254453063958477332011-03-14T13:02:00.000-07:002011-03-14T13:07:24.120-07:00We need a new word for "disaster":I wish "hell" were divorced from religious connotations because it more aptly describes what has transpired in Japan since Thursday.Everyone already knows where to donate by now and I have no idea if thoughts and prayers work, but I'll keep sending mine, just in case, to the victims, their loved ones and the first responders.Of equal personal importance, a close loved one is back in the hospital Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-86877591725431282522011-03-13T13:47:00.000-07:002011-03-13T16:28:46.328-07:00My newest piece for TNB, "Mike Sacks Really Wants a Meat-pocket", is up now:I interview Mike Sacks' about his new, wickedly droll and superbly reviewed essay collection, Your Wildest Dreams within Reason.As I state in the intro after alluding to the horror unfolding in Japan, "In a world that will never make sense, we need smart people who make us laugh. So, thank you, Mike Sacks, for helping us keep the lids on our pill jars.":http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-32029527647179202542011-03-08T12:51:00.000-08:002011-03-08T13:11:39.437-08:00Because we're just a font of good news around here:The Wall Street Journal's newest CFIDS piece, on whether it's safe for those of us with CFIDS to donate blood and the role the XMRV retrovirus might play in determining the answer:http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2011/03/07/xmrv-and-the-blood-supply-more-study-needed/As I noted the other day, the Wall Street Journal's CFIDS reporting has been exemplary. If you have CFIDS, particularly an acute Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-2258752286975923432011-03-05T09:39:00.000-08:002011-03-05T10:09:30.340-08:00From the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CBS News and Elle Magazine, four new CFIDS features outstanding as they are pertinent:1) Elle Magazine's gorgeously etched profile on Laura Hillenbrand, author of the acclaimed bestsellers Seabiscuit and Unbroken. A searingly honest and often funny look at what it's like to write each day while your body slowly unravels:http://www.elle.com/Beauty/Health-Fitness/Chronic-Fatigue-Syndrome-A-Celebrated-Author-s-Untold-Tale2) The New York Times continues its superb CFIDS coverage with Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-54369771929097919382011-02-28T11:12:00.000-08:002011-02-28T11:30:04.376-08:00"Time travel is lonely..."--John VandersliceBecause it's an effective writing warm-up but mostly because it's fun, I post six-word stories on Smith Magazine nearly each day. (As noted last year, I had a piece included in Smith's latest HarperCollins anthology, It All Changed in an Instant and read at the University Bookstore stop of their tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV8VpKj50Ds)Went to post this morning and discovered one of mine Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-72467285900758072762011-02-22T10:29:00.000-08:002011-02-23T16:45:03.969-08:00And the laurel-resting continues:One of my dear lefty colleagues recently chided me for being too hard on Greece and its ongoing economic debacle. I explained to him nearly each Greek-American I know had predicted the motherland's implosion and while creating the building blocks for contemporary democracy, math, theater and Western philosophy remains equally inspiring and astounding, toppling the EU is kind of a huge fucking Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-92037859429545122752011-02-21T18:01:00.000-08:002011-02-21T18:06:56.884-08:00Magic:The Washington Square Hotel posted this photo on its Twitter feed today:http://twitpic.com/42a0vuYes, I know New York winters permeate one's bone marrow and they're damned near impossible to navigate with a cane, but dear god, I remain entranced. (The last time I was in New York, it was 10 degrees F with wind chill, I had a 100 degree fever and needed the cane the entire trip and it was still Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-32689620237548826442011-02-14T11:40:00.000-08:002011-02-14T11:59:45.030-08:00My new essay for Nerve, "A Foray into the Domestic Arts", is up now! Cookies, sex and the intersection of the two!First off, thanks so much to everyone for your delightful birthday wishes yesterday. Imbibed the leftover cake from Kingfish this morning and am experiencing a sugar crash not unlike the opium madness Burroughs wrote of in Naked Lunch. ("I've got the fear!")If we've known each other awhile, you know this is the fourth version of this essay that has run in the past ten years. And if we know each Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-33310194310976596762011-02-06T15:49:00.000-08:002011-02-06T15:56:06.343-08:00Prompting nacho comsumption to fall drastically:Hey, straight guys!If you'd admit you're a wee curious about fucking each other, the NFL would become superfluous.As would bar fights and any film in which Hugh Jackman transmogrifies.Think it over and get back to me.Happy Superbowl Sunday!Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-67910625335976688202011-01-29T13:41:00.000-08:002011-01-29T13:49:17.872-08:00As usual, the inability to empathize has disheartening consequences:Everything about this bill is revoltingly sexist, out-of-touch and cruel. I'm not a fan of Speaker Boehner (obviously) but I praised his eloquence when Congresswoman Giffords was shot. I don't foresee praising him again.From New York Magazine, "New Bill Reportedly Proposes Restrictions on Federal Funding for Abortions":http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/01/abortion.htmlContained: a radical Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-37466690043269654842011-01-27T12:13:00.000-08:002011-01-27T12:16:41.625-08:00Egypt's brave writers risk imprisonment, torture and death:Well-researched and detailed new piece on the pernicious forces battling Egyptian writers who are calling for democracy:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41285248/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/All power to them. And goddamnit, we are so lucky to live here.Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-84892412040333813792011-01-24T11:17:00.000-08:002011-01-24T11:34:30.524-08:00The Nervous Breakdown Literary Experience, Seattle Edition #2!The Nervous Breakdown Literary Experience, Seattle Edition #2 is Friday, April 8, 7 p.m. in the Jewelbox Theater at the Rendezvous!Last time, the Stranger called us "a big goddamned deal"; KOMO4.com deemed us "the six best authors in town" (a wee hyperbolic but a lovely compliment nonetheless); and City Arts said we were "funny and sharp".Best not fuck this one up.The brilliant Jonathan Evison Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-72319669093955376962011-01-23T11:36:00.000-08:002011-01-23T11:42:00.674-08:00Seriously, it's got the makings of a Discovery Channel documentary:I'm fairly certain the emails in all three inboxes are now asexually reproducing. While it's objectively fascinating and, more importantly, the content contained therein is humbling, moving and gratifying, despite returning scads each day, I'm still not caught up. "After the Fire" has, in fact, caught fire and I'm really kind of speechless at the response it has engendered even if--and this goes Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-39009663751178275202011-01-20T10:20:00.000-08:002011-01-21T20:07:58.820-08:00My new Seattle Weekly feature is online and on stands now!My new Seattle Weekly feature, "An Incomplete History of Clutch Douglass' Journey to the '80s" is out now:http://www.seattleweekly.com/2011-01-19/music/an-incomplete-history-of-clutch-douglass-journey-back-to-the-80s/Fun being funny again!Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-43313570856048653052011-01-19T16:33:00.000-08:002011-01-19T16:58:42.284-08:00A brief catch-up while dinner is in the oven:The Nerve essay (see previous post) generated a volume of letters as large as it was unforeseen. Completely bittersweet, given the piece's topic, and deeply humbling that people have chosen to share their own stories of loss. Each missive deserves a thoughtful response and all three of my inboxes have been overflowing for the past 10 days. I'm nearly caught up, but if you haven't heard from me Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-26332247734020188322011-01-11T21:21:00.000-08:002011-01-11T21:23:47.963-08:00My new essay for Nerve, "After the Fire", is up:Hard to write; much harder not to. Deeply touched by the insightful comments:http://www.nerve.com/love-sex/true-stories/true-stories-after-the-fireLitsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-62049690772516856122011-01-09T19:52:00.000-08:002011-01-09T21:59:07.941-08:00Hard to know where to begin:Since first watching CNN's "Breaking News" report yesterday while nestling with the puppy and returning emails, i.e. engaging in unremarkable Saturday morning behavior, I've been incredibly saddened and upset by the horror that unfolded in Tuscon.I feel awful for the victims and for their loved ones. I send Congresswoman Giffords and each survivor prayers and healing thoughts and wish them Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-61796793956709206712011-01-06T17:29:00.000-08:002011-01-06T21:52:23.088-08:00The world grows increasingly interconnected with each passing year and......this would be horrible news under any circumstances, but one of my best friends for the past 23 years just moved to London yesterday, so I find this particularly disturbing.Wishing the Brits best of luck and very much hope this is a false alarm. In particular, I want my friend and his wife to be safe. And holy hell, what fucked up news to receive the first day in your new city:http://Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0