"For years, she and four other writer friends met up for regular work sessions, punctuating their writing spurts with meatballs and Italian tuna salad. "They were welcoming to us," she says. "Maybe because, in a city full of screenwriters using Final Draft, it was charming to see a bunch of women working on regular old books, using regular old Microsoft Word. Or, in my case, often just a notebook.""
"and she is underwhelmed by whatever shape I claim to make with the foam (a "tree" today; she didn't see the vision). Around midmorning, I do a live call with Boston Public Radio for its Under the Radar book club, during which time I pray that the host, Callie Crossley, isn't picking up any of my stomach rumblings. I like live interviews because they're anti-perfectionist; you can't retake anything, and when it's done, it's truly done."
Work on the novel took place at Little Dom's, a small Los Angeles Italian restaurant, where four friends met for regular work sessions punctuated by meatballs and Italian tuna salad. The household moved back to New York after a period in Los Angeles. Days include decompressing after a book tour, social catch-ups, and seasonal meals like homemade duck confit and jollof. Morning routines are intermittent; breakfast is often skipped while a five-year-old assists with a matcha latte by whisking marine collagen into matcha and judging foam shapes. Live radio interviews are valued for their immediacy. Early lunch is treated as a quasi-religious ritual.
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