The Popularity Papers goes West!

Hi!

My name is Amy Ignatow and I wrote a book called The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang. When I wrote The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang I thought it would be hilarious to give my book a super long name.

I did not imagine that I'd be saying "The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang" as much as I do, but I'm going on tour this summer to promote the book, so I'd better learn how to say it without my eyes rolling into the back of my head from the effort.

Anyhoo, this is my blog. My husband and I are going to be driving our bright yellow car from our home in Philadelphia to Denver and back this summer to promote The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang (oh, let's just call it "The Popularity Papers" from this point on) and I'll be keeping this blog on the journey.

For future reference:

Mark: husband
Tilda: our cat, who is mostly terrible
Stonewedge: what we named our house, which is made of stone and on a strangely triangular plot of land
Tali: our car, and subject of the hit song "Tali the Bumblebee"

(oh, you've never heard it? It goes something like this)

Tali, the Bumblebee
She gets us from Point A to Z
She'll drive from sea to shining sea
She's Tali the Bumblebee!
(vroom vroom vroom vroom vroom vroom)
Tali ho!

This is going to be fun.