Elizabeth Eslami's Blog

• Oprah vs. The Short Story

  November 10, 2009

  • In a now infamous interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper last week, Oprah Winfrey came out of the closet as “Not a Short Story Person.”  For the larger world, still high on the fumes of a Yankees win and the deflating balloon boy saga, this revelation was met with a collective shrug.  But among the literati, Oprah’s admission was the equivalent of an atom bomb exploding all over her ...
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• The Richest Hill on Earth

  October 23, 2009

  • My favorite city is not Paris.  I’ve been to Paris.  It was cold, rainy, and full of aggressive street vendors hawking miniature Eiffel Towers.  When they tried a sales pitch in French first, and then English, I pretended to speak German.   It’s not Zurich either.  A beautiful city, full of cobblestones and cathedrals, but one in which the public restrooms seem to be constructed from ...
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• My Baby, In the Flesh

  October 16, 2009

  • “Remember this moment,” my husband wrote today.  “Remember this day.”I told him via IM that the first ARC copies of my novel, Bone Worship, had arrived, brought up to the front door by our perpetually angry-looking mail lady.  (“Why was she angry?” he asked.  “Probably because she’s a mail lady,” I told him.)  We had waited so long to see them we had begun to give up hope.  ...
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