Kathleen Hale

Author of NO ONE ELSE CAN HAVE YOU and the forthcoming novel NOTHING BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN. Read more here: http://halekathleen.tumblr.com/stuff_i_write

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What Happens When a Girl You Barely Know Accuses Your Mom of Child Molestation

Here’s what happened to us.

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No Petting Zoo: A New York City Safari

My life on the food chain (with footnotes)

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Lean, Mean Novel-Writing Machine

How to write mean characters without letting them dominate your story

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The Secret to Awkward

How novelists create realistically awkward characters

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Profiles in Courage

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Fuck You, Anxiety. Both My Middle Fingers Are Up.

This summer walking through Bushwick, along Wyckoff Ave, on more than one occasion when I saw an ambulance passing by, sirens crying tears…

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How I Plotted My Way to Romance

I was in my third year of MFA school, that niche hotbed of sex, lust, mistakes, sex, and—if you’re lucky—love.

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Center of the Heart

A toast to my mom on her 65th

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