May 20th, 2009 / 4:57 pm
Word Spaces

Word Spaces (11): Lily Hoang

Lily Hoang is the author of Parabola (Chiasmus Press) and Changing (Fairy Tale Review Press) and has an ebook at Lamination Colony titled The Woman Down the Hall. She is an associate editor at Starcherone Books.

Lily Hoang once visited Houston. She was impressed with Houston’s public transportation, which is basically a light rail train that travels up and down a few blocks, but costs lots of money to maintain. She gave a reading at UH-Downtown and then shared a cigarette with Gene Morgan at Poison Girl.

After the jump: Lily’s Word Space.

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My office is just a desk, and it’s almost always a mess. This is probably the neatest & most organized it’s been in months. Because I’m such a mess, I rarely use this desk as a writing space. Instead, I use this desk mostly as a receptacle for old book manuscripts (both my own & the ones I read for Starcherone) and my fancy email checker (also known as a computer).

Usually, I write at cafés or any place with coffee and wireless access.

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The End.

Thanks, Lily, for sharing.

In the next few weeks, we’ll hear from Amelia Gray and Elizabeth Ellen about their respective writing places.

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18 Comments

  1. Jimmy Chen

      i like that she likes virginia woolf, my favorite woman writer.

      not crazy about the armpit hair. i went to college in UC santa cruz, a place where armpit hair is political.

  2. Jimmy Chen

      i like that she likes virginia woolf, my favorite woman writer.

      not crazy about the armpit hair. i went to college in UC santa cruz, a place where armpit hair is political.

  3. Ryan Call

      yeah there is a lot of woolf there. ive only read lighthouse and dalloway and short fiction

  4. Ryan Call

      yeah there is a lot of woolf there. ive only read lighthouse and dalloway and short fiction

  5. Gene

      Snitch

  6. Gene

      Snitch

  7. Ryan Call

      oh shit.

  8. Ryan Call

      oh shit.

  9. Shya

      “woman writer”

  10. Shya

      “woman writer”

  11. Aaron

      these are always such fun, interesting posts. armpit hair = nice addition

  12. Aaron

      these are always such fun, interesting posts. armpit hair = nice addition

  13. Lily

      funny, i forgot all about the armpit hair. i usually take down the painting when old people come over, not because of the unshavedness but because of the definitive lack of clothes.

      also, for the record, i do love woolf, but half of that woolf belongs to my partner/husband/type thing. most of the other stuff on the shelf is mine though… tomasula, saterstrom, etc.

      thanks, ryan, for this, and ryan & gene: awesome meeting both of you in houston. & what’s wrong with being impressed with public transport. i do, after all, live in south bend, in.

  14. Lily

      funny, i forgot all about the armpit hair. i usually take down the painting when old people come over, not because of the unshavedness but because of the definitive lack of clothes.

      also, for the record, i do love woolf, but half of that woolf belongs to my partner/husband/type thing. most of the other stuff on the shelf is mine though… tomasula, saterstrom, etc.

      thanks, ryan, for this, and ryan & gene: awesome meeting both of you in houston. & what’s wrong with being impressed with public transport. i do, after all, live in south bend, in.

  15. Ryan Call

      nothing wrong at all! i thought it was funny. but youre right i should have said where you were coming from…

  16. Ryan Call

      nothing wrong at all! i thought it was funny. but youre right i should have said where you were coming from…

  17. Blake Butler

      righteousness made html

  18. Blake Butler

      righteousness made html