I stopped by Emily Lockhart’s blog today with my list of Boyfriends I Never Had (and Why We Would Make a Great Match). Discussed: Why Tony Blair (pre-Bush) lights my fire; my common ground (sex and church) with the alto god Nick Cave; Loyd Cole gets Nabokovian; Steve Forbert and the Mississippi connection; what Vince [...]
I stopped by Laurie Stolarz’s blog this week to talk about a recurring dream, which involves Tony Blair (a.k.a. prime minister cutiepie), Red Lobster, Sunday school, and a little green Trabant. I also took a whirl on Karin Gillespie’s blog, where I talked about the Southern writer thing (I’m from Alabama), the MFA thing (getting [...]
I was pleased to read in PW this morning that Laura Albert, writing as JT LeRoy, will publish her new novella, Labour, with Last Gasp. The San Francisco publisher should be credited for going ahead with the book despite the revelation (duh, okay, was it really a revelation?) that JT LeRoy, as such, does not [...]
Rick Bass has a wonderful nonfiction piece in the new issue of Narrative Magazine about what it means to be shy:
When you’re shy, and a writer, it’s not the same as being just, say, shy and a mechanic, or shy and a typist: I mean, people know you’re watching them. It’s like you’ve lost all [...]
This week, I’m touring on the Girlfriends’ Cyber Circuit, talking about books, music, and more. Today, I was interviewed by Gayle Brandeis, author of The Book of Dead Birds and Fruitflesh.
Here’s KT Tunstall on why people think she’s a lesbian.
“I was on stage in Dublin when I heard a girl in the crowd shout: ‘KT, you’re a lesbian!’ What the hell do you say to that? I didn’t want to upset the lesbians but I didn’t want to make out I was one. I said: [...]
Live on the West Coast? Got something to say about it? You might try the new incarnation of the LA Times Magazine, West. Guidelines for Nonfiction Submissions: West publishes all kinds of nonfiction stories: narratives, profiles, investigative pieces, memoir, essays and more. Generally, the best approach for having a story accepted is to write a [...]
Mark Pritchard, author of Too Beautiful and Other Stories, How I Adore You, and the forthcoming novel Make Nice, has a feature on his blog called “What Are You Working On?”, which focuses on writers’ works-in-progress. I recently dropped by to talk about my new novel, Ocean Beach. Read the interview here. While you’re there, [...]
CNN reports today that, in response to the firestorm surrounding this week’s release of additional photos depicting torture at Abu Ghraib, the now-infamous prison located twenty miles west of Baghdad will be shut down later this year. Prisoners will be relocated to a secure ranch in a remote region of the country. Nicknamed Dick’s Reformatory [...]
It’s the final round of the Valleywag Hotties contest, to determine the hottest fella in Silicon Valley. Jim Buckmaster, beloved CEO of Craigslist, is at the top of the heap, having dominated Steve Jobs (duh), Jonathan Ive, and George Zachary, and now hedging his bets against Ben Trott, co-founder of Six Apart. Well, okay, is [...]
