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An On Our Knees Emergency

Sister, I just knew I had to go. It was a feeling I could not shake. So I called Maggie and said, “Yo. Can you take a day off from work and meet me ...

The Girl With the Pussy Tattoo On Her Arm

Sister, Years ago, a young woman I had never met wrote to tell me she had just gotten a pussy tattooed on the inside of her forearm. And I thought ...

The first time I read the book out loud, I wept through the whole thing

Four weeks ago, I read from On Our Knees out loud for the first time. Not from a stage. Not to a crowd who bought a ticket to be there. ...

I wrote a whole book about coming out of hiding. Then I turned it in and hid.

Darling Sister, I typed the last word of On Our Knees, sent the whole manuscript to my editor, and did not celebrate. No champagne. No dancing around the kitchen. Instead ...

The Girl With the Pussy Tattoo On Her Arm

Sister, Years ago, a young woman I had never met wrote to tell me she had just gotten a pussy tattooed on the inside of her forearm. And I thought ...

The first time I read the book out loud, I wept through the whole thing

Four weeks ago, I read from On Our Knees out loud for the first time. Not from a stage. Not to a crowd who bought a ticket to be there. ...

I wrote a whole book about coming out of hiding. Then I turned it in and hid.

Darling Sister, I typed the last word of On Our Knees, sent the whole manuscript to my editor, and did not celebrate. No champagne. No dancing around the kitchen. Instead ...

Confession: I am in the middle of a sprint, and pleasure is how I am winning it

Let me confess something to you, my love. Right now, as I write this, I am in the middle of a motherfucking sprint. Massive things are happening in my world, ...

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