![]() ![]() ![]() Those books remain her most famous, but she’s continued publishing steadily in the nearly 30 years since, amassing 40-some titles, which include everything from fiction to poetry to Wood Nymph Seeks Centaur: A Mythological Dating Guide. ![]() Venice, with columns, and canals, even, like the real Venice but maybe cooler because of the surfers.” Like many women of my generation, I first encountered Block via the books in her Weetzie Bat series: a collection of novellas about a girl-at first teenaged, eventually a twentysomething mother of two-navigating the wilds of 1980s Los Angeles, which Block figures as a punk wonderland of kitsch and glamour, “a canyon where Jim Morrison and Houdini used to live, and all-night potato knishes at Canter’s, and. You don’t go to Francesca Lia Block’s house in jeans and a t-shirt. It’s the wrong day, hour, and weather for a white lace minidress and a long, bone-colored shearling vest, but the memory of my 12-year-old-self, clutching a paperback and dazed with visions of girls in vintage silk kimonos, combat boots, fairy wings, and Gaultier sunglasses, is insistent. It’s 9 am on a Thursday morning when I leave my house, 50-some degrees in Los Angeles and so windy that palm trees are curved and swaying, my car trembling with exertion on the freeway. I can’t help myself: I dress up to go see her. ![]() THE BELOVED WRITER ON DEFYING EXPECTATIONS AND TRYING NEW THINGS ![]()
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