Dina Gachman

2 months ago | thewest.com.au | Dina Gachman

When Ione Skye was in middle school in the early 1980s, a group of popular, mean girls she calls “the Aprils” brought her — shy, bookish, not yet famous — into their intimidating fold. She was surprised they even knew her name. “Part of me wanted to punch the girls’ smug faces,” she writes in her memoir Say Everything, just released through HarperCollins. Another part of her, though, “burned with excitement”. Those preteen memories, which she wrote down, felt important. Cinematic, even.

2 months ago | texashighways.com | Dina Gachman |Tyson Bird

A storm raged as we cruised out of the suburbs along Interstate 10 toward Houston’s Montrose neighborhood. It was 1991, and my friend Ehren and I had driven that route so many times in the two years since we’d turned 16, our tire tracks had probably worn their own grooves into the asphalt. The neighborhood was a sanctuary to us, a place ruled by misfits and artists, where we could check out vintage stores like Timeless Taffeta before catching a matinee of the Madonna: Truth or Dare documentary.

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Dina Gachman

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2 months ago | flipboard.com | Dina Gachman

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2 months ago | nytimes.com | Dina Gachman

When Ione Skye was in middle school in the early 1980s, a group of popular, mean girls she calls "the Aprils" brought her - shy, bookish, not yet famous - into their intimidating fold. She was surprised they even knew her name. "Part of me wanted to punch the girls' smug faces," she writes in her memoir "Say Everything," due out from Gallery Books on March 4. Another part of her, though, "burned with excitement."Those preteen memories, which she wrote down, felt important. Cinematic, even.