In some ways this is emblematic of the restless spirit that led me so far afield in the first place. The rest of p.99 (prior to my statement of big fat disappointment) contains, well, more disappointment. Some Girls: My Life in a Harem is a book about identity, adoption, tattooing and the eighteen months I spent as a teenager in the harem of the Prince of Brunei. 99 is, "I was disappointed in Brunei and in myself." 99 of my coming of age memoir Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, and land square on: disappointment. So in a way, Ford's metaphysical fingers join me as I turn to p. Ford Madox Ford mentored Caroline Gordon, who mentored Oakley Hall, who mentored Leonard Chang, who mentored lil' old me. I feel compelled to take Ford's p.99 test because I have a lineage of mentors that actually stretches back to Ford himself. She applied the “ Test” to her recently released memoir, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, and reported the following: Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Flaunt Magazine, Opium Magazine, Society, Pale House: A Collective and in the anthology My First Time: A Collection of First Punk Show Stories, among others. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. She attended New York University for three minutes but promptly dropped out to work with Richard Foreman's Ontological Hysteric Theater and with The Wooster Group, among others. Author and performer Jillian Lauren grew up in suburban New Jersey and fled across the water to New York City.
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