Portrait of Myself as a Zoo

Hi! I'm Megan. I work in publishing, I live Brooklyn, I have a deep Midwestern heart, and I can't talk to you right meow. Twitter: @megandmolly 

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Kate Tempest at Housing Works Bookstore, 5/3/16

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Just a very beautiful donut.

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It's like the whole world is against, and your glass of water is trying to kill you.

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Spectacular preorder offer alert! Preorder THE SUNLIT NIGHT by Rebecca Dinerstein, one of spring’s most anticipated novels, to receive a limited edition print of the book’s beautiful jacket - signed by the author!

To enter, send proof of your THE SUNLIT NIGHT print or ebook preorder to [email protected] with the subject header, “The Sunlit Night preorder.” Please include your name, age, and full mailing address in the body of your email. Offer ends 11:59 pm, May 31st, 2015. While supplies last. Offer available to US/Canada residents only.

You can preorder THE SUNLIT NIGHT from the following retailers:

Bloomsbury

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I love this book and I’m so excited for June 2nd! 

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☁️🌺 Gray skies go away / bring us purple flower days ☁️🌺

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It's one of those days where everyone posts these things but that's awesome and I don't get tired of seeing them!

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Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton at last night’s Pen & Ink book launch party at Housing Works. Tattoos and books and GIFs, oh my!

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Love these two. Dream authors, for real. PEN & INK is out now! http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/pen-ink-9781620404904/

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Do you live in New York City? Please come party with us! Tuesday, October 7th, at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe!

(Can’t make the party? You can pre-order Pen & Ink here, here, here, or here, Mom.)

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Come to this! 

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Are Mick Fleetwood and I the same person?

"This is all part of my plan. By that time I hope that I'll be living up in the mountains somewhere with a very pretty house and a piano and a tape recorder, just writing, and then going to New York every once in a while to shop. I love that too, but I mostly just like to be in a really warm place with a bunch of animals, dogs and cats."

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-true-life-confessions-of-fleetwood-mac-19770324#ixzz3D23wj5ux

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Selecting my weekend (work) reads because I’m overly ambitious and think that, while The Chap is out of town - I should do more than watch the Kardashians. Not pictured: book 2 of Game of Thrones.

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On January 1, 2011 just after midnight, I declared Robyn's Dancing on My Own as my "theme song of the year." It's actually a very sad song, wrapped up neatly in a happy, infectious beat. I was fresh off the end of a 5 year (terrible) relationship, and I was by myself at a bar in Carroll Gardens. It made sense. Last night, I was dancing/singing along to the song with my best friend on a pier on the Hudson River. 3 years later I'm married, at a new job, with better and best friends...just a totally different place. I took a moment to acknowledge this, and then I tried to pull some signature air-punch dance moves. Again, it all made sense.

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The view from the 19th floor bathroom in the Flatiron building. Only the classiest for you all.

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Last week, I was here. In my mind, I'm still there. Eating a BLT. Love you Phoenicia Diner.

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It's August in NYC: Here is what's in season + a coordinating recipe

Let's go all bacchanal on the farmer's market while we can. (Thanks to THIS map) 

Beets - I can't find it online but Nina Planck (REAL FOOD COOKBOOK) has a classic roasted beet w/ blue cheese and walnut salad recipe. It's just those ingredients tossed w. s&p, olive oil, red wine + balsamic vinegar, and brined (!!!) walnuts. This veggie borscht recipe looks appealing too!

Blueberries  - Making nothing but Smitten Kitchen's blueberry boy bait. Throw some more berries in there. Ignore the amount of butter. Have it at your next dinner gathering.

Cauliflower - Dinner: A Love Story posted this recipe title "Cauliflower with Magical Powers" and you know, they're right (as usual)

Corn - ::Ahem ahem:: It's hard to eat undelicious corn when it's in season. You have to go out of your way to do it. Grill it, boil it (butter, s&p), go street-style with it, maybe put it in this succotash? You got this

Eggplant - Cut it thin (mandoline if you have one). Roast it in a lined baking sheet for 15 mins @ 400 degrees with the usual (olive oil, s&p). Put it on some flat bread w/ tzatziki sauce. 

Tomatoes + Peppers - Put them together in another Smitten recipe ( love her, foreva), appropriately titled "summer's last hurrah panzanella" 

Melon + Peaches - Again, can't really mess these up by simply eating them! Cut 'em up, grill the peaches (can you grill melon? In my dreamlife I have a grill), pair them with ice cream. Full stop. Summer squash - Is anyone just OVER summer squash!? Just me? Fine. Cut it up, saute with garlic and shallots, olive oil, finish with a squeeze and zest of lemon. 

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Scenes from my commute: a rainy morning on McGuinness blvd, waiting for the G train shuttle.

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The news this week has me rewatching this powerful TEDtalk by Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal Justice Initiative. "There is no disconnect around technology and design that will allow us to be fully human until we pay attention to suffering"