BTM News & Events
News
- What does a book like this have to do with SuperNaturale and DIY Living? Plenty says SuperNaturale's Diane Gilleland.
- A.P. reporter Colleen Long check in with BTM on how we got started, our dating disasters, and one of her own.
- BTM is Cuckoo for Cupcakes! CupcakesTaketheCake interviews Rachel and Christina on their favorite little dessert.
- Home of the Sampler's Marie Karie IM interviews Christina. (Includes three BTM-inspired haikus.)
- The San Francisco Chronicle’s report on post-chick lit trends features BTM and its publisher, Simon Spotlight Entertainment.
- Anna Chlumsky's Before the Mortgage essay, “Peaking at 10,” featured on Sirens.
- Before the Mortgage editors Rachel Hutton and Christina Amini on WNYC with Brian Lehrer: “Knowing When to Quit Is Half of Winning.”
- Rachel Hutton’s Before the Mortgage essay, “Parents Are the New Friends,” featured in the April issue of Minnesota Monthly.
- Sasha Cagen’s Before the Mortgage essay, “The X-Factor” is featured in the April issue of Women’s Health.
- Listen to Christina Amini speaking about “Young Adult Finances” on Michael Krasny’s radio talk show, Forum.
Photos from Events
- Brown U. Bookstore, May 20th
- Reading with Suzanne Greenwald, author of Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads.
- 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.
We (heart) Housing Works.
Thisbe Nissen reads about her entry-level entry into fiction writing.
Barbara Rushkoff reveals the perils of working at "Person's" magazine.
- 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.
- Minneapolis: Magers and Quinn, April 25th
- Reading with essayists Jessica Nordell (Prairie Home Companion), Tim Gihring (Minnesota Monthly), and Brian Grivna.
- Los Angeles: Book Soup, April 20th
- Reading with essayists (and LA Times columnists) Joel Stein and Meghan Daum, Jessica Nordell.
- San Francisco: A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, April 19th
- Mega-reading with essayists Sasha Cagen (author of Quirkyalone), Evan Ratliff (Wired, The New Yorker), Catherine Price (The New York Times, The Associated Press, Salt Magazine), Jessica Nordell (Prairie Home Companion), Ariana Lamorte, David Kolek, Carson Brown, and editors Christina Amini and Rachel Hutton.
Rachel and Christina reading
some of the audience's Best BTM Moments.
Packing them in at A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books.
Dave Kolek explains how he began (or didn't begin)
his temp work counting pipes in a firetrap warehouse.
Catherine Price reads from “Co-op Confessional.”
Sasha Cagen reads from “The X-Factor.”
Ariana Lamorte shares a real-life Nanny Diary.
Jessica Nordell reads a series of Letters from Grandma.
Carson Brown, an early BTM contributor,
reads “Yoga for Cokeheads,” from issue #3.
Evan Ratliff examines “43 People Who Receive Mail at My House.”
Rachel and Christina signing some books . . .
Drinks after the reading at Cafe Royale!
Highlights: Last minute appearance by Anna C., seeing two middle school friends, and selling out of books.
