Essays, lists, and ephemera for the years post-college and pre-picket fence
BTM Headline News
- *The Associated Press* writes about the zine, the book, and how it feels to be employed as a Smirnoff Ice Girl.
Our Cupcake Interview with Cupcakes Take the Cake.- Home of the Sampler's Marie Kare interviews Christina
- SF Chronicle cites BTM in post-chick lit trends.
“The voice of the post-college, pre-parenting, quasi-adult limbo demographic. . . . Chock-full of engaging one-sitting reads. . .” —Bust magazine- “Funny, innocent essays . . . The collection includes work from 24 writers, many of them luminaries to the young and Craigslisting, such as Sarah Vowell, Sasha Cagen (Quirkyalone), and Shoshana Berger (ReadyMade).” —SF Weekly
Anna Chlumsky’s essay “Peaking at 10” featured on Sirens.- Listen: Christina on “Young Adult Finances” on Michael Krasny’s KQED radio talk show, Forum.
- Rachel and Christina on WNYC with Brian Lehrer: “Knowing When to Quit Is Half of Winning.”
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Highlights from BTM Life
- SuperNaturale Review
- What does a book like this have to do with SuperNaturale and DIY Living? Plenty says SuperNaturale's Diane Gilleland.
- The A.P. checks in with BTM
- Reporter Colleen Long writes on how BTM got started, our dating disasters, and one of her own.
- BTM Is Cuckoo for Cupcakes
- Rachel Kramer Bussel interviewed us on our favorite cupcake moments.
(After the interview we got so hungry, we had to try making brownie cupcakes.) - There's no place like HomeoftheSampler.com
- Marie Karie's IM interview with Christina includes the following BTM haiku:
fax machine intern
roommate borrows the car keys
before the mortgage - Brown U. Bookstore, May 20th
- Reading with Suzanne Greenwald, author of Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads.
Our smart move: Going to New York System to get hot dogs after the reading.- More pics from Provi
- NYC: Housing Works, May 15th
- Another mega-reading, with essayists Thisbe Nissen (The Good People of New York), Anna Chlumsky (My Girl), Barbara Rushkoff (Jewish Holiday Fun), Jessica Nordell (Prairie Home Companion), Sarah Eisenstein, and Brian Grivna.
Highlights: Last minute appearance by Anna C., seeing two middle school friends, and selling out of books. - Post-NYC-reading drinks at Von
- Highlight: Journalist, sex writer, and cupcake-fanatic Rachel Kramer Bussel joined us. Here's what she had to say.
- More pics from NYC
- Minneapolis: April 25th
- Reading with essayists Jessica Nordell (Prairie Home Companion), Tim Gihring (Minnesota Monthly), and Brian Grivna.
Highlight: Singing “Eye of the Intern,” accompanied by accordion. - More pics from Minneapolis
- Los Angeles: Book Soup, April 20th
- With essayists (and LA Times columnists) Joel Stein and Meghan Daum.
Highlight: Ryan and Jackie (pictured above between Meghan and Joel) came to the reading as their first date and received date coaching from Meghan and Joel afterwards! - More pics from L.A.
- San Francisco:A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, April 19th
- Mega-reading with Sasha Cagen, Evan Ratliff, Catherine Price, Jessica Nordell, Ariana Lamorte, David Kolek, and Carson Brown.
- Evan Ratliff investigates the “43 People Who Receive Mail at My House.”
- More pics from S.F.
- Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University, April 18th
- Highlight: An alumni from our co-op ate his dinner out of a jar during the reading.
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Praise
“A road map for the times when you're not going anywhere. If I'd had this book back in the day, my lean and hungry years wouldn't have been so miserable. What am I saying? Of course they would have been miserable. But at least I would've had a good book.”
— Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events
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BTM Moment of the Week
- Going to a brunch and realizing that we spent about two hours talking about TV shows from the 80s . . . Remember Small Wonder?