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When someone becomes vulnerable, opportunists rush in. -

Nancy Rommelmann

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Woman loses new job for exposing her old employer's controversial YouTube channel entitled #MeNeither

When Camila Coddou found out her former employer, who apparently co-owned a chain of coffee shops, had a politically charged YouTube channel called #MeNeither, the feminist felt compelled to expose her.

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Asia Argento's Time Is Up

A tale of fame, fallacy, and the perils of good intentions

Nancy Rommelmann  | August 24, 2018

It is 2003, and I am at a penthouse at Chateau Marmont, covering the wrap party for The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things. Based on a book of stories by JT LeRoy, the film is directed by and stars Italian actress Asia Argento, as a truck-stop hooker. She dresses her young son, played by 7-year-old Jimmy Bennett, as a girl, rouges and lipsticks him, and, as these things go, is complicit in the boy being raped by a character Argento is sleeping with.

Tonight at the Marmont, Bennett lies entangled on the bed with Marilyn Manson. They are a passive centerpiece to those on the room's periphery—Jerry Harrison from Talking Heads, Sharon Osbourne cursing in the doorway, Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon—who have for years have turned out to support LeRoy, the teenage transgender drug-addicted hooker whose literary star rose so improbably in the early '00s. He is a survivor, a fragile one; Lou Reed and Winona Ryder do readings on his behalf. JT at this moment, dressed per usual in Andy Warhol white wig, sits drunk and crumpled in the corner of the room, until a woman with flame-red hair and kabuki make-up orders him to stand up and have his picture taken, after which he slumps back down.

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Interview with Nancy Rommelmann, author of To The Bridge, A True Story of Motherhood and Murder

Interview with Nancy Rommelmann, author of To The Bridge, A True Story of Motherhood and Murder

Nancy Rommelmann

It is with real pleasure that I introduce Nancy Rommelmann, author of To The Bridge, A True Story of Motherhood and Murder, due out July first. She is a long-form journalist whose work has appeared in the LA Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, among other publications. Her award-winning articles include features on the actress Jena Malone, the literary hoaxer…

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TO THE BRIDGE by Nancy Rommelmann | Kirkus Reviews

A deep probe into why a mother murdered her child.

Highly recommend

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Maybe You Can Save Me, by Nancy Rommelmann

Nancy Rommelmann is a long-form journalist, book reviewer for The Oregonian, novelist, and essayist. Her work has appeared in in LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Reason, and Byliner. Her first novel, The Bad Mother was published by Dymaxicon in 2011. "Maybe You Can Save Me"—written in a powerful, stream-of-consciousness style—is one of two works of fiction by Nancy Rommelmann appearing in the Summer 2012 issue of 113 Crickets.

Maybe You Can Save Me

I saw you the instant I came through the door, Mary, I meant to find you and there you were, alone and radiant amid the artificial light and the music, I watched you from the doorway, and thought, I can go over there and sit quietly and she will understand, Mary, won’t that be something, to sit quietly while everyone shouts and sways and the girls throw back their heads and show their throats, they’re here to have a good time, I shouldn’t deny them that, Mary, we can dance, too, if you’d like, after all they’re playing the real thing, the real swing, you don’t hear it as much as before, now it’s more moonlight stuff, the Flamingos, I like them, I do, but I suspect I’m sentimental, I have a soft spot for Dorsey and those boys, if you know what I mean, Mary, if you’d like to dance I’m happy to, though I can only see you from the waist up, such a tiny waist tapering below the tablecloth, you look as though you’d be light on your feet, but I’m being coy, Mary, I’ve seen you dance, it was four nights ago, I saw you here, you were dancing with a big yellow-haired fellow, his arm looked like a leg of lamb against your small back, the silk of your dress, you were wearing a dress like the one you have on now only it wasn’t coral-colored but jade, I can see it’s real silk, did you know we couldn’t get silk here for years, Mary, your hair, too, looks like silk, like black mercury, I imagine it would slip through my fingers, not that I’m going to do that, no, I’m not going to touch your hair, I mean, not now, no, Mary, I’d never let you slip, if that’s what you thought I was saying, safe-guarding you means a great deal to me, and yet the way you sit here, all alone, your friend off in the powder room, you barely look as though you need my protection, up close your face is inscrutable, I can’t tell if you’re looking at me, Mary, can you hear me above the noise, I’m saying you don’t appear fragile, you look as though you have a protective skin, like that of an almond, something crucial and inseparable, Mary, I’d like to make it plain I understand, I think it’s right and necessary that you protect yourself, and if you don’t mind my saying so, I think your people had to develop resistance, had to endure so very much, the way it all ended and the devastation, it’s a tragedy, a tragedy of cataclysmic proportions...

Read more in 113 Crickets, Summer 2012

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© Nancy Rommelmann, 2012. Reproduced with permission.

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113 Crickets, Summer 2012—editorial

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Welcome, or welcome back, to 113 Crickets. This is our second volume of work and we continue our quest to offer new, cutting edge work to delight and inspire the reader. The summer issue contains work by seven writers, new and established, working in a variety of literary styles.

Three of the writers are drawn from Dymaxicon's own pool of talent—Nancy Rommelmann, Walt Foreman and Ricki Grady. Nancy Rommelmann, a journalist, and Walt Foreman, a screenwriter, both have short fiction collections due to be published by Dymaxicon later this year—Transportation and Beer in the Sun respectively. This issue features two stories from each collection to whet your appetite for their upcoming books. We have included the introduction to Ricki Grady's Bebop Garden, a lighthearted and witty description of her improvisational approach to gardening, which was published by Dymaxicon in 2011. Ricki's improvisational approach to gardening in some ways mirrors emergent processes in software development, and our readers in the IT field may find inspiration in the gardening metaphor.

From the software world itself, we are pleased to present seven poems by Liz Keogh, a published poet and a well-respected Agile coach and facilitator. Liz Keogh's poems are preceded by an interview-style dialog with 113 Crickets where she talks about the connections between poetry and computer code creation.

Two other writers in this issue are Mark Eagleton, a previously unpublished writer from Queensland, Australia, whose collection of vignettes painfully reveal the residue of sadness people may live with following a tragedy, and Cindy Lee Berryhill, a Rolling Stone-commended singer/songwriter and recording artist based in Southern California, whose poetry has a lyrical quality congruent with her musical compositions.

Closing off the volume is a collection of ten poems by James Franco, inspired by the music of The Smiths. Actor/writer/director James Franco was born and raised in Palo Alto, in the heart of Silicon Valley and the poems are inspired by his experiences as a teenager living in this area.

We hope you enjoy this volume. We look forward to reading your reviews, or hearing from you directly if you are interested in contributing work or supporting us as a patron. You'll find us at 113crickets.com, and you can follow us on Facebook and Twitter to receive up-to-date news of our progress towards the Autumn 2012 issue.

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113 Crickets, Summer 2012—preview

The summer 2012 issue of 113 Crickets is due for release in a few days. Stay tuned for the amazon.com kindle url, followed by the paperback url around 7-10 later.

We'd like to thank all the writers, and our behind-the-scenes team for the work put into this issue. And thanks also to all our patrons.

We hope you enjoy reading this as much as we enjoyed creating it.