Intro to Geography

I dust KISS figurines for a living. Assorted bobbleheads. Erotic photography. I dust every flat or fuzzy or rotund surface in a store full of items no one needs. The place reeks of stale sage or ylang-ylang, and my job description includes knowing the difference. I don’t.
I can see myself doing this for the rest of my life.
As in: “If I’m not careful, I could be doing this for the rest of my life.”

To read more, visit the annotated networked version of Careers in Geography.

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Real World Resume

T.C. Boyle has called her "one of the greats."

Universities have given her money (and awards named for smart dead people).

She writes novels in 30 days and then cuts them into tiny strips of paper.

Learn more about the girl wonder here:

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Careers in Geography maps out a year in the accidental life of an acerbic young wage-slave navigating unwanted promotions, nonsensical parental advice, her skittish love life and her repulsively-hip corner of Los Angeles, ultimately discovering that the hardest job is knowing where you belong.
Beset with footnotes and literary graffiti, it’s a novel about what happens before a novel can be written, about where to look for life when no map covers everything. The real denouement of Careers in Geography is the book itself, a record of the year it took to get it out.

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