Amber Tamblyn Instagram – For our interview series, Further Ado, here is a much needed conversation with U.S. Poet Laureate, the one and only Ada Limón. Ada and I talked about the restoration of humanity through poetry, what authors we love and keep coming back to, how and when to write, and sending poems into space (literally). Sign up for my newsletter today and come join us. Link in bio! #NationalPoetryMonth #AdaLimón

Amber Tamblyn Instagram – For our interview series, Further Ado, here is a much needed conversation with U.S. Poet Laureate, the one and only Ada Limón. Ada and I talked about the restoration of humanity through poetry, what authors we love and keep coming back to, how and when to write, and sending poems into space (literally). Sign up for my newsletter today and come join us. Link in bio!

#NationalPoetryMonth
#AdaLimón | Posted on 01/May/2024 22:11:48

$Amber Tamblyn Instagram – “I grew up in Southern California in an apartment building complex where I’d often spend evenings around a communal bonfire listening to my father, the artist, and acrobatic dancer, Russ Tamblyn, tell stories about the heydays of Hollywood. My dad starred in everything from the original West Side Story, to David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, rubbed elbows with the likes of Fred Astaire and Henry Miller, and is a beloved culture icon of sorts. You could hear a pin drop – or just the sounds of the crackling fire and my father’s voice – as neighbors and friends alike leaned in to listen closely to his stories of the adventures from his youth. There was the time he received his best friend, the actor Dennis Hopper, in bad shape over the border of Mexico in an ambulance. Or the time he picked up a strange hitchhiker who turned out to be Charles Manson, and his harem of women in Topanga. Or the time he helped Elvis Presley with some dance moves for “Jailhouse Rock.” Or the time his other best friend, the songwriter Neil Young, wrote one of his most famous songs in the backseat of dad’s car on a road trip. Or the time dad turned down that lead role in “Gilligan’s Island.” Or the second time he met the Queen of England. Those stories are just a fraction of his life, and what he writes about in his new memoir, Dancing on the Edge: A Journey of Living, Loving, and Tumbling Through Hollywood. At 89 years old, I like to think it’s a pretty amazing feat, to have come this far, literally and professionally; to have lived for so long, and so hard, and so good, as my dad has, and get to publish a book about it—his first book!— in his golden years. May we all be so fortunate. (Especially the living part.) For The Bare Magazine, I sat down with my dad in my backyard in Brooklyn, New York during his recent press tour for the book to talk about some of his favorite memories from growing up in Hollywood, thinking about life’s biggest regrets at the end of the road, and of course, the essential products he can’t live without (spoiler alert: one of them is a cologne he has worn since I was born, and still wears to this day.)” — @amberrosetamblyn @officialrusstamblyn ♥️ #linkinbio$

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