five good things

Katie

July 22, 2016

1. A trip home to New York this weekend, the suburbs in summer, the car wash and the fire pit and “I got you a coffee,” zeppole in a greasy paper bag

2. Farmers market dinners, tomato sauce with olives and shallots, Deb’s pasta with bacon and basil and corn, Zucchini bread with butter and flake salt

3. Summer reading: The Paying Guests, The Husband’s Secret, trying Wolf Hall AGAIN

4. A date to get ice cream cones and the streetlights turning on all at once, the surprised, sort of delighted sound he made when it happened

5. A new idea in my back pocket, and the fact that apparently I am not out of them yet.

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Katie Cotugno is the New York Times bestselling author of eight messy, complicated feminist YA love stories, as well as the adult novels Birds of California and Meet the Benedettos. She is also the co-author, with Candace Bushnell, of Rules for Being a Girl. Her books have been honored by the Junior Library Guild, the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee, and the Kentucky Association of School Librarians, among others, and translated into more than fifteen languages. Katie is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Mississippi Review, and Argestes, as well as many other literary magazines. She studied Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College and received her MFA in Fiction at Lesley University. She lives in Boston with her family.