So perhaps it has been my trip back to Wales that has made me browse through my facebook friends. Anyways I stopped again at Ruth Fowler - another old Mold Alun school pupil. She has launched a book and it is not the average for north Wales.
Here is her background from her wikipedia entry. Alternatively have a look at her blog Mimi in NY
Ruth Fowler (born 28 March 1979) is a British-born New York based writer, who first came to media attention after writing an article for The Village Voice as 'Mimi'. This article chronicled her adventures as an illegal immigrant in Manhattan.[1]
Fowler was born to a middle-class family in Wales.[2] After graduating from Cambridge University[3] and receiving a Master's degree in American literature[4] from King's College, Cambridge,[5][6] she moved to the United States to pursue a career in journalism.[3] While attempting to obtain a work visa she worked as a stripper in Manhattan (at notorious clubs such as Flash Dancers, Scores,[6] and VIP), writing about her experiences on her blog entitled Mimi in New York. Her first book, No Man's Land, will be published by Viking Penguin in the US in June 2008. She has written for The Village Voice (US), Wired Magazine (US) and The Observer (UK).
As you can read she has just published a book and I feel like I have to read it. I didn't know Ruth well at school so I probably missed the adventurous side that she seems to display here (read an old article about her in the Sun). I think the book will make a nice contrast to Sophie's world that I am reading at the moment (and not particularly enjoying). The Observer obviously liked the book here is what Polly Vernon had to say on the 13th of January.Strippers turned media sensations
This spring's unexpectedly good, genuinely funny lady flick is Juno, the debut screenplay of writer Diablo Cody who is the leading light in the Stripper Gone Stellar movement. Originally from Chicago, she moved to Minnesota to live with her internet boyfriend (whom she's since married - oh, and divorced), and took up stripping, graduating fast from amateur night to fully fledged pro, before jacking it all in for the genius film-making activities. Ruth Fowler's at it, too. She stripped for two years in a succession of clubs in Manhattan, before chucking it all in to write her strip-memoir No Man's Land, which is published here in June 2008, and which is thoroughly excellent.
2 comments:
Ok, I admit it! When I saw that you'd blogged about Ruth I had to see what you were talking about... not EXACTLY what I thought she'd be up to these days, but if she's happy...! And anyway, when you grow up with Michael Owen in the year below you (Bryn Coch) and the guitarist from Coldplay in the year above you (Maes Garmon?!), is there anything "average" about life in North Wales?! :o)
I know. It does seem like Mold was a pretty talented hotspot. People certainly have not ended up where I supsected but I think that makes things pretty exciting. Bryn x
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