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Weetzie bat5/20/2023 ![]() "For me, love is the ultimate expression of magic and I am fortunate to be surrounded by it. Her novels glitter with enchantment, and the author says that magic plays a constant role in her real life. ![]() "I struggled with body image and a few bullies, but found solace in writing, fashion and music."īlock studied English literature and creative writing at UC Berkeley, where she wrote Weetzie Bat, which was published when she was just twenty-four. "I wrote poetry and hung out with a group of artistic, imaginative friends," she says. My father told me The Odyssey as a bedtime story and my mother shared many fairy tales with me."īlock, who has developed a cult following of devoted teen readers, says that she herself was a bit of a misfit as a teen. "Our house was full of books and I read constantly. ![]() ![]() Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, with a painter/screenwriter father and a poet mother, Block was surrounded by art and creativity."My father read poetry to my mother when I was in utero," says Block. There was a fountain that turned tropical soda-pop colors, and a canyon where Jim Morrison and Houdini used to live, and all-night potato knishes at Canter's, and not too far away was Venice, with columns, and canals, even, like the real Venice but maybe cooler because of the surfers. You could buy tomahawks and plastic palm tree wallets at Farmer's Market, and the wildest, cheapest cheese and bean and hot dog and pastrami burritos at Oki Dogs. ![]()
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