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Author: Paulette Perhach

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Read more about the article My Favorite Writers’ Favorite Books: John Hodgman

My Favorite Writers’ Favorite Books: John Hodgman

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:July 9, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/My Favorite Writers' Favorite Books/Uncategorized

Like Will Ferrell or Amy Sedaris, it seemed like John Hodgman was creating a new kind of humor. We had no idea what he was going to do next, but…

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Read more about the article Read This to Learn That: Gaby Dunn’s “Bad with Money” and Starting as a Writer from Nothing

Read This to Learn That: Gaby Dunn’s “Bad with Money” and Starting as a Writer from Nothing

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:July 9, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Read This to Learn That

One thing I know about the writing life is that you get better at the thing by doing it. I started out hoping to be invited to do the thing…

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Read more about the article Why a Writer Might Want to Care About Frugality

Why a Writer Might Want to Care About Frugality

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:July 3, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Personal Finance

I'm doing Liz Frugalwoods' Uber-frugal challenge this month, and I don't like it. I mean, I like her and her challenge, but I don't like feeling like I can't do…

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Read more about the article I Don’t Want to Be Frugal, But I Want to Be a Writer

I Don’t Want to Be Frugal, But I Want to Be a Writer

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:June 30, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Personal Finance

It's spending season. The sun shines upon Seattlites at University Village as I run to the Amazon book store, because it's the only place to return the clothes I bought…

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Read more about the article My Favorite Writers’ Favorite Books: Michelle Obama

My Favorite Writers’ Favorite Books: Michelle Obama

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:June 27, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Book Lists/My Favorite Writers' Favorite Books

Is there anyone classier, smarter, and more of a person I might be tempted to put a photo of on my mantel than Michelle Obama? She's brilliant in her own…

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Read more about the article My Favorite Writers’ Favorite Books: Anthony Bourdain

My Favorite Writers’ Favorite Books: Anthony Bourdain

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:June 11, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Book Lists/My Favorite Writers' Favorite Books

Before my trip to South America, I looked for places he’d been. I had 24 hours in Cali in Colombia, and he’d gone there, had dinner with some local musicians.…

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10 Beach Reads

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:May 28, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Book Lists

"In my mind, a beach read is something that’s “unputdownable,” whatever that means to you," says Susan Kehoe, managing partner of Browseabout Books. When the New York Times asked booksellers…

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Read more about the article My Favorite Writers’ Favorite Books: Zadie Smith

My Favorite Writers’ Favorite Books: Zadie Smith

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:May 22, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Book Lists/My Favorite Writers' Favorite Books

Zadie Smith is kind of everything you ever want to be. I'm in love with this short story I heard her read on the New Yorker fiction podcast, and she…

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Read more about the article My Favorite Writers’ Favorite Books: Amy Schumer

My Favorite Writers’ Favorite Books: Amy Schumer

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:May 19, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Book Lists/My Favorite Writers' Favorite Books

As you know, Amy Schumer is ridiculous. I consider her my long-lost third sister. Not only does she have her book, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, she of…

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Read This to Learn That: Nature Writing

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:May 19, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Read This to Learn That

I've only once fallen in love with a piece of land, and I've been trying to write about it for a decade. When I bought a horse in Paraguay, I…

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Read more about the article My Favorite Writers’ Favorite Books: Roxane Gay

My Favorite Writers’ Favorite Books: Roxane Gay

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:May 14, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Book Lists/My Favorite Writers' Favorite Books

Roxane Gay was sitting outside Hugo House one night when I went to a reading. My friend Jessica and I chatted with her about student loan debt. When we said…

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Read more about the article My Favorite Writers’ Favorite Books: George Saunders

My Favorite Writers’ Favorite Books: George Saunders

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:May 9, 2019
  • Post category:Blog

George Saunders is an uber-favorite: kind, brilliant, hard-working. I've never met anyone who said a bad word about him, and he was very generous when I met him outside a…

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Read more about the article Tools to Write Without Distraction

Tools to Write Without Distraction

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:April 24, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Writers' Gear

You know that feeling like you want to just head out to a cabin in the woods and just write? Well you can get a little bit of that with…

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Read more about the article The Next Books I’m Buying for My Writing Business

The Next Books I’m Buying for My Writing Business

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:April 22, 2019
  • Post category:Blog

The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone Ask by Ryan Levesque Book Yourself Solid by Michael Port Getting Things Done by David Allen

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Read more about the article Read This to Learn That: Free Indirect Discourse in “A Changed Man”

Read This to Learn That: Free Indirect Discourse in “A Changed Man”

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:April 18, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Read This to Learn That/Uncategorized

There's a style of third-person in fiction that frees up your narrator to let the characters indirectly share their thoughts, without all the clunkiness of “she thought” or “he imagined.”…

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Read more about the article Show Your Work: How I Finally Got Published in McSweeney’s

Show Your Work: How I Finally Got Published in McSweeney’s

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:April 17, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Show Your Work

Here’s how I got into McSweeney’s: 1. I submitted about 10 pieces over the last 10 years. 2. I joined a group of comedy writers and saw other people getting…

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Read more about the article 10 of My Favorite Seattle Writers

10 of My Favorite Seattle Writers

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:April 16, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Book Lists

When you get live in a certain place, you get to know the writers who aren't necessarily the biggest names (though some are). Here are 10 writers I would love…

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Read more about the article My Favorite Writers’ Favorite Books: Susan Orlean

My Favorite Writers’ Favorite Books: Susan Orlean

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:April 15, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Book Lists/Books & Tools

Susan Orlean is a force. The author of The Library Book, The Orchid Thief, and Rin Tin Tin. I once got to sit near Susan Orlean, after an event at…

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Most Helpful Kitchen Items

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:April 15, 2019
  • Post category:Uncategorized

Little suction cup hooks!

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10 Tools Writers Need for a Healthy Workspace

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:April 11, 2019
  • Post category:Uncategorized

If you want to be a writer, you want to be writing for the rest of your life. As someone who's had to wear a wrist brace and endure the…

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Read more about the article 10 Books of Poetry for People Who Aren’t “Poetry People”

10 Books of Poetry for People Who Aren’t “Poetry People”

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:April 3, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Book Lists

When you think of poetry, you probably think of the things that come up when I looked for stock images for "poetry." Feather quills. Roses. Soft focus dreamscapes. I like…

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10 Books George Saunders Loves

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:March 26, 2019
  • Post category:Uncategorized

I'm so mad I just found this list. I was thinking about how people should search out the favorite books of their favorite authors. I realized I'd never done this…

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Read more about the article The 10 Greatest Books of All Time

The 10 Greatest Books of All Time

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:March 21, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Book Lists

Have you ever wondered what the best books ever are? I found out! There's a whole website dedicated to it, TheGreatestBooks.org. They took more than 100 best book lists, weighted…

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Read more about the article The 10 Most Hilarious Books I’ve Ever Read

The 10 Most Hilarious Books I’ve Ever Read

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:March 14, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Book Lists

Do not listen to David Sedaris on a bus. I tried to enjoy The Drama Bug, and nearly convulsed as he described picking up Elizabethan English. I twisted toward the…

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Read more about the article 10 Books That Have Legit Changed My Life
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10 Books That Have Legit Changed My Life

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:March 8, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Book Lists

Here are 10 books that have shaped who I am today:   1. Guantanamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written…

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