In Laura’s Words
I write to shine a light on a dim or otherwise pitch black corner…to provide relief for myself and others. It’s the light that I am looking for. And the wonder it illuminates.
May my words land in your heart.
yours, Laura
Quotes for the Writers and Dreamers
Here are some of the quotes on my writing desk that I refer to daily. Hope they help. Dreams can come true. But it's in the creating where the true power lies. yrs. Laura Paul Auster: “And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity...
Techies
In the last month of my life, I’ve re-found a part of myself that I’d forgotten existed: I love techies. Those behind-the-scenes souls who fly low under the radar and like it that way. Designing sets, lighting stages, filming show offs, minding their soundboards. I loved them in high school, and in college, and now I’m loving them all over...
Book Group Questions
I have had many inquiries about Book Group questions and appearances, and am currently working on compiling some of the more evocative questions asked to me by interviewers on my book tour. I'm going to post them here for now, and then next week I'll have a finalized list on my website, lauramunsonauthor.com, with more information on how to...
Interview with Brian Lehrer on WNYC radio
You can listen to the April 6 interview by clicking here!
“Business” Trip
Well, I'm off. The Barnes & Noble event in NYC was standing room only, and the reading at the New Canaan library sponsored by Elm Street Books was a great success as well. Suddenly I know what a Green Room looks like and what it feels like to be around lights and cameras and what it is to wear lots of mascara (not to mention talk to a US...
Good Morning America Interview, 4/5/10
Here's the link to my interview with George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America! Click to view interview And here, for the Huffington Post
Last Day of Spring Break
Last day of Spring Break. Sitting with the kids who have the stomach flu in Mexico, and a husband who is looking green in the gills with a bucket by his head…wondering about the next 24 hours of our lives. I'm reminded what my author friend once told me. He said, “The only difference between not being published and being published…is being...
A Nice Article in Newsweek, March 29, 2010
When Divorce Isn’t the Only Choice A Montana writer's husband said he was leaving, but she saw another way out. By Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert | Newsweek Web Exclusive Mar 29, 2010 Her husband's words hit Laura Munson "like a sucker punch." And yet, she says, she was able to duck. After two decades together, he came to her on a summer day...
An Interview with Lee Woodruff in Redbook Magazine- April 2010
How Our Marriage Crisis Brought Us Closer The day Laura Munson's husband threatened to walk out on their 15-year marriage could have been one of the darkest of Laura's life. Instead, the crisis drew out a strength in her she never knew she had. By Lee Woodruff When Laura Munson's husband told her one otherwise ordinary summer day that he wasn't...
Review by Jesse Kornbluth of www.headbutler.com
The Huffington Post March 26, 2010 Jesse Kornbluth Editor of HeadButler.com Posted: March 26, 2010 02:49 PM 'This Is Not The Story You Think It Is': A Season of Unlikely Happiness Those Aren't Fighting Words, Dear --- Laura Munson's account of trouble in her marriage --- was the most forwarded, shared, discussed, debated column in the Style...
My New York Times essay in O. Magazine– February, 2010
A San Francisco Bookseller and Sales Rep just made my day…
Dear, Laura: I LOVE your book and so many things about it. So much of what you said resonated with me (as it did with thousands of others, after that column first appeared in the New York Times). I could especially relate to all the times you had those inner dialogs (what you really wanted to say to your husband), while keeping your cool and...
Waiting for the Book Baby
I've never been much for limbo. Who is? Maybe you are. Maybe you take limbo as a gift-- and do things like yoga and deep breathing and mindful dish washing. One woman's limbo is another's purgatory, I guess. Because for me this waiting time is torture. I'm no good at it. I find myself in odd contortions-- re-arranging the bookshelves by...
The Other Glass Girl
Every year that I can help it, on my birthday, I read "Franny and Zooey." My need to live for a day a year in masturbatory adolescent malaise is an affliction, a boon, a friend. Just for an afternoon, to be that girl on the couch, with the cat in her lap, sobbing about the burden of enlightenment...is pure pleasure. To take to the bed of it,...
The View Out My Bedroom Window
If I look out my window right now, at this moment in my life, it's the exact pink and ash lavender sunrise on snow-laden conifers...the exact photo I chose when I started this blog last May. Eight months ago, when I decided to take things under my own control and start this blog. As some of you may remember, it was more of a literary journal than...
