Fieldwork
CHEMICAL PINK REVISITED
November 5 ’11Bodybuilding has changed dramatically in the last twenty years. Katie Arnoldi looks at the sport and wonders what her characters from CHEMICAL PINK would look like today if they were just starting out in this vastly expanded field.
QUEEN OF DANGEROUS RESEARCH
October 10 ’11I graduated from Scripps College in 1980, 21 years old and clueless. I took my diploma and walked out into the world scared out of my mind because I had no idea what to do with myself. Secretly I liked the idea of being a writer and I was quietly playing around with short stories […]
IT’S NOT YOU, IT’S ME
August 26 ’11Coping Skills: Katie Arnoldi offers helpful hints on what to do if you recognize yourself on the pages of her books.
WHAT “ARE SCENES FROM THE BACK OF MY MIND”?
July 20 ’11An essay in which the author examines the nuts and bolts of the writing process and explains the concept behind her new website–sort of.
NOTE TO SELF
May 31 ’11Take a deep breath Katie Arnoldi. This is your wake-up call. Think of it as a pep talk.
(An essay in which the author talks to herself.)
WORK HABITS
May 17 ’11For the last five and a half years I’ve been getting up every morning and driving over 20 miles to a shared workspace in Santa Monica called THE OFFICE. It is the only place I’ve found where I am consistently productive. Many of my writer friends think I am insane. Why would I want to […]
DEAR READER, HAPPY 4-20
April 20 ’11A celebratory essay commemorating the paperback release of Point Dume (as seen on the Overlook Press Blog).
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TORTURE
April 16 ’11How one writer found comfort through an in depth survey of atrocity
MEXICO, MEXICO, MEXICO
February 20 ’11What do you do when you’ve bitten off more than you can chew?
LA RUMOROSA
December 6 ’10Last week I went down to Mexico in search of Violeta Sanchez. She was a minor character in Point Dume who is going to play a major part in my new novel. Violeta was Felix Duarte’s fiancée whom he left behind when he agreed to work for a Mexican drug cartel that was growing pot […]
