Dear Internet,
My name is Molly. I am thirty… something years old. I grew up in a tiny town in the Northwest, ran away to the big city for college, worked in the supremely awesome field of kids’ and young adult book publishing, ran away to Australia and then landed back in the Northwest, where I spent more than six years at the Eugene Weekly. For most of those years, I was the arts and music editor, writing and editing music, film and book coverage, as well as a bevy of special issues that ranged from the relevant (beer!) to the slightly baffling (weddings!). I counted all the Best of Eugene ballots with a sharp eye for cheaters and tried to find every excuse to run a book review as often as possible.
In January 2011, I left Eugene and my job to move back to New York, where I’m now happily living in Brooklyn, looking for a job and remembering how to enjoy all the things the city has to offer without losing my mind and spending my last dollar.
I’m also a nerd, a fencer and a junkie for things that smell good. I bake a decent cake and I make a pretty good old-fashioned, when I can’t get someone else to do it for me. I love pink wine, red shoes, small boxes, David Mitchell novels, feminist blogs, sci-fi television shows and late-’90s college rock and don’t believe in guilty pleasures. Why feel bad about liking the things you like?
It’s nice to meet you. Maybe we can be friends?
xo,
Molly
Some stuff what I (semi) recently wrote:
Movie reviews:
Sucker Punch (3/31/11)
Black Swan (12/30/10)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (8/19/10)
Winter’s Bone (8/5/10)
Please Give (7/29/10)
Eclipse (7/8/10)
An Education (11/19/09)
Book reviews:
Eugene Weekly‘s Winter Reading 2010
David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (7/15/10)
Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (7/1/10)
Blake Butler, Scorch Atlas (2/11/10)
Other stuff:
Concert preview: Warpaint (3/17/11)
Concert preview: Tim Kasher (10/14/10)
Concert preview: Adventure Galley (9/16/10)
Concert preview: Jaguar Love (6/3/10)
Cocktails: The Aviation (3/11/10)
Restaurant profile: Devour (1/28/10)
Postscript: None of this would exist without the talents and patience of the wonderful Outbox Online.