Leila Sales

Much like my grandmother before me, I have a terrible habit of writing things on scraps of paper and then hanging on to these scraps for years. I never use… Read more

I just got home from a week at South by Southwest in Austin. It was so fun. I am going to try to describe it briefly here, but my strongest… Read more

Steamboat is a monthly reading series of humor writers and comedians at Greenlight Bookstore, in Brooklyn. I am absolutely crazy about Steamboat. Sometimes– I shouldn’t say this, since I am… Read more

I’m sure you’ve been waiting with baited breath to find out what my team’s theme was for Saturday’s Idiotarod. Wait no longer! I’ll tell you. Our theme was this: (Photo… Read more

It’s 11:30pm, and I need to get to bed ASAP (instead of sitting here eating ice cream from the carton, as I am currently doing), because tomorrow I have to… Read more

PAST PERFECT made YALSA’s 2012 Best Fiction for Young Adults list! My roommate and I celebrated with cupcakes. The full BFYA list is here: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/bfya/2012. What follows is my annotated… Read more

I’ve just returned home from a long weekend in Boston. I grew up just outside of Boston, and I always miss it. New York is an amazing city, but I… Read more

Things I have accomplished today: 1. reading the January issue of Glamour magazine cover to cover 2. doing one load of laundry 3. making and drinking a hot chocolate 4…. Read more