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May 10, 2024 | movingthrough.substack.com | Heather Johnson Durocher |Daisy Florin |Zibby Owens

Hi, my fellow travelers!I got lost in a book this past week, and also a new streaming movie that was surprisingly quite good. Another highlight: pulling together an impromptu spring dinner from yummy stuff I found at a new farmers' market not far from our house.
I Was a Stay-at-Home Parent and Then Went Back to Paid Work

Mar 18, 2024 | cupofjo.com | Daisy Florin

When I was 41, my youngest kid started kindergarten and I was bereft. I had spent more than a decade raising small children and now it was over. It felt like getting fired from the only job I’d ever been good at. It was 2014, and I’d been writing for a few years. In 2010, I created a blog called “Days Like This” — as in “Mama said there’d be days like this” — about funny things my kids did. It was the heyday of blogging, and I was convinced this was my ticket to fame and fortune.
Celebrating one year here (and some big news!)

Nov 13, 2023 | movingthrough.substack.com | Heather Johnson Durocher |Daisy Florin

Hello, my fellow Moving Through travelers!One year ago I decided to begin writing this newsletter and start the work of building a community in a space that’s come to mean a lot to me. It’s here, on Substack, where I have connected with many new readers and writers as well as re-connected with so many of you who have known me for some time but through other shared experiences, most likely my longtime lifestyle site and community Michigan Runner Girl.
I have to be good at so many things. Can’t I be bad at tennis?

Jun 1, 2023 | motherwellmag.com | Daisy Florin

By Daisy Alpert Florin@daisy_florinI’m not what you would call athletic. I’m not fast or strong. I don’t have quick reflexes or a competitive streak. I’m always worried about hurting myself. So when I started playing tennis last summer, I didn’t have high expectations. We had some credit at a local club for lessons my son missed during the pandemic. Now he was off to college, so did I want to use the credit to buy some lessons for myself? The first few lessons were rough.
Daisy Florin’s Playlist for Her Novel “My Last Innocent Year”

May 30, 2023 | largeheartedboy.com | Daisy Florin

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Daisy Florin’s novelMy Last Innocent Year is a stunning debut that eloquently captures late ’90s college life.
At the Heart Of My Novel Was The Story I Could Never Write

May 21, 2023 | independent.ng | Daisy Florin

DAISY ALPERT FLORIN I spent most of my 40s writing a novel set on a college campus in the 1990s, a school similar to the one I attended during that same decade. The novel, about a young woman’s affair with a professor, opens with a nonconsensual sexual encounter between the main character, Isabel, and her friend Zev. Although it begins there, what happens that night is not the novel’s focus.
Sometimes the story is all the justice you get

May 19, 2023 | daisyflorin.substack.com | Daisy Florin

Back in March Dan Schorr and Jenna Farrell, co-hosts of The Title IX and Civil Rights Podcast, invited me to talk about the depiction of campus sexual misconduct in MY LAST INNOCENT YEAR. I was apprehensive at first—what do I know about Title IX?—but our conversation was fascinating. Dan and Jenna are lawyers whose work focuses on Title IX and civil rights disputes that arise in institutions of higher learning.
At the Heart of My Novel Was The Story I Could Never Write

May 19, 2023 | lithub.com | Daisy Florin

I spent most of my 40s writing a novel set on a college campus in the 1990s, a school similar to the one I attended during that same decade. The novel, about a young woman’s affair with a professor, opens with a nonconsensual sexual encounter between the main character, Isabel, and her friend Zev. Although it begins there, what happens that night is not the novel’s focus.
In Praise of the Campus Novel: Daisy Alpert Florin on Fiction and Self-Discovery

Feb 14, 2023 | lithub.com | Daisy Florin

What is it about campus novels that makes us love them so? The campus has inspired many novelists over the years: Michael Chabon, Kazuo Ishiguro, Curtis Sittenfeld, Elif Batuman, Nabokov, to name just a few. Readers love these stories, too; “the campus novel” has become its own literary subgenre, and TikTok accounts devoted to hashtags like #darkacademia flourish online.
A Love Letter to My Mother-in-Law

Feb 13, 2023 | cupofjo.com | Daisy Florin

This month we’re celebrating Valentine’s Day with a series of love letters. Next up is Daisy Florin, whose debut novel, My Last Innocent Year, comes out tomorrow. Two months after my mother died, I got engaged. The timing was bittersweet. While I was happy to be marrying the man I loved, a man my mother had loved, I also felt tremendous loss. Not that I acknowledged it at the time. Instead, I dove into wedding preparations, determined to outrun my grief.