––What could convince you to join the fanfare?

Blum: Oh, I didn't say I don't text.  LOL!  But I am trying to wean off.

Glass: I tried yoga several years ago and found it physically counterintuitive—which may be the point, I know. So perhaps I quit too soon. A no-hype yoga teacher could probably recruit me again for the bodily benefits—my bones are getting too old for my running routine—but as for the rest, I’m always wary when I spot the emperor’s fashion consultant cruising over the castle moat in his spiffy carriage. Call me benighted, curmudgeonly, resistant, but this much I know: exercising my imagination—as well as delving into the imaginings of others—will always give me a spiritual workout unlike any other.

Hermann: I admit that I have been momentarily tempted to join under an alias just so I can play Scrabulous with a couple of particularly wordy friends.  It hasn't happened yet, and I sort of doubt it will.  If it does, I will be the worst kind of Facebook member, the kind that skulks around under a fake name and makes everyone more confused about their virtual network and who their friends really are.

Pearl: I have an i-Pod. It was a gift.


Jaime Clarke is the author of the novel WE’RE SO FAMOUS, editor of DON’T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME: CONTEMPORARY WRITERS ON THE FILMS OF JOHN HUGHES, and co-founder of POST ROAD, a national literary magazine based out of New York and Boston