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About Jackie Pick

Jackie Pick is a former teacher and current writer living in the Chicago area. She is a contributing author to multiple anthologies, including Multiples Illuminated, So Glad They Told Me: Women Get Real about Motherhood, Here in the Middle, as well as the and the literary magazines The Sun and Selfish. She received Honorable Mention from the Mark Twain House and Museum for her entry in the Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Competition. Jackie is a contributing writer at Humor Outcasts, and her essays have been featured on various online sites including McSweeney's, Belladonna Comedy, Mamalode, The HerStories Project, and Scary Mommy. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, Jackie is co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning short film Fixed Up, and a proud member of the 2017 Chicago cast of Listen To Your Mother.

The Mountain-Bustin’, Word-Wrasslin’, Bear-Gone-Astray Saga of This Damned Book

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SCENE: A QUIET STAGE. JACKIE STROLLS ON WEARING COWBOY OUTFIT AND 11-GALLON HAT (INFLATION). SHE TAKES A SEAT ON A CONVENIENTLY PLACED HAY BALE, SETS AN ELBOW ON ONE KNEE, AND SPEAKS TO THE CAMERA

The other day someone hit me with the dreaded question: “Are you almost done yet?” As if they were asking for me to pass the ketchup.

I am not. 

And before you ask the next question: Four years in, Hoss, as of last week. 

But I am almost almost done, practically tiptoeing through the tulips of nearly-donesville.

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August 2023 Reads

Books, Inspiration, Reading, Recommendations, Under 750

One of these things is not like the other.

All of them fascinating and brilliant in their own way, one kept creeping back into my thoughts long after finishing, meaning it merited a review…

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July 2023 Reads

Reading

Completing the Author-to-Reader Circuit

July was a banner month for reading, as you’ll note from the graphic. As you’ll also note from the graphic, I am quite the design expert.

One of my 2023 resolutions (bwahaha, remember those?) was to write more reviews of books. The rule I set for myself was to write a review for any book that I was still thinking about many hours after turning the last page.

Reviews require a different sort of engagement with a book. It’s academic and emotional. It is a way of helping complete the circuit of author-to-reader.

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