All posts by Kathleen Heil

January 11th, 2011

FUNNY WOMEN #42: The Best-Selling Story of All Time

The five most popular words in best-selling books are (source: Time magazine):

1. man
2. diet
3. house
4. woman
5. sex/sexual …more

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June 30th, 2010

Kathleen Heil: The Last Book I Loved, Out of Sheer Rage

It seems only appropriate that I put off writing this essay for several months despite the fact that sitting down to write it sooner really wouldn’t have been that hard, not coal mining-hard as writers always say, and here am I spooling out one of those awkwardly long sentences that only Romance-language writers can really get away with, and I’ve lit a cigarette and started to smoke it and I notice that the cup I am using as an ashtray—since I have no ashtray out of sheer denial that I actually smoke—has the word LOVE written on each side …more

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Kathleen Heil writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, in English and Spanish. She has published in Hermano Cerdo, PANK, The Barcelona Review, and elimae, among others. When not spending time as a ‘Funny Woman,’ she can be heard speaking Spanish with a funny accent. Her website is http://kathleenheil.wordpress.com.

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