by Lynn Lipinski | Apr 21, 2018 | Fiction, Writing
This review first appeared in The Same on March 28, 2018. My freshman year of high school I crushed on a boy named T. After months of in-class flirting and meaningful looks, T. asked me to go to the movies with him one afternoon after school. My first date! I was...
by Lynn Lipinski | Oct 25, 2016 | Fiction, Personal, Writing
My book signing Saturday at Book Soup in West Hollywood drew a great crowd of friends and fans. What a treat it was to be on such hallowed ground on the Sunset Strip, appearing just days after Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson and a few days before Girls’ creator...
by Lynn Lipinski | Jul 10, 2015 | Flash Fiction Friday, Writing
The first time it happened she was at the laundromat. Then there was another occasion, a few weeks later, while pushing her cart at the supermarket. Initially it was terrifying, but now it happened nearly every day and Robin was starting to like it. It was certainly...
by Lynn Lipinski | Mar 27, 2015 | Personal, Writing
I’ve been struggling to find a literary agent for one of my two fiction novels for more than a year now. I’ve pitched the story at conferences and via email, and received a steady trickle of rejections. Mostly formulaic responses, some nicer than others,...
by Lynn Lipinski | Dec 5, 2014 | Flash Fiction Friday, Writing
Alicia spouted business cliches with such earnestness that I had to wonder if she’d been living under a rock for 2o years. How could anyone in the year 2014 call for a paradigm shift or blame something on a perfect storm without a measure of irony at the sheer...
by Lynn Lipinski | Nov 14, 2014 | Flash Fiction Friday, Writing
The police helicopter’s spotlight bounced through layers of Southern California dust on my windshield to illuminate the Chevy’s dashboard. Hip-hop music nearly masked the scream of the police sirens behind me. I counted two news stations circling the...