The new issue of Failbetter is up, featuring an interview with Ann Tyler, short fiction by Benjamin Krier and Kevin Sampsell (it is my humble duty to promote all Kevins, as I married one), and art by Shawn McNulty. Plus they sell this great bib for $6.99.
Sorry I’ve been amiss in posting the last few days. My publication date for Ocean Beach has been moved up to January, 2007, so I’m on a super-tight deadline now. Burning the midnight oil, but yes, it’s true, I’m thinking of all of you. I’ll be back in business next week. Meanwhile, check out this podcast: Russ Franklin’s very funny “account of a flight to Orlando with a 315-pound complexity engineer and a clinically aerophobic man on his first solo flight” on KQED’s Writer’s Block.
Natalie R. Collins, author of Wives and Sisters, stops by today with her literary soundtrack: 1) The soundtrack to your latest book (what did you listen to while you were writing it?) Paula Cole, This Fire. She’s one of my faves. 2) one song title (from any album) that would make a great book title (either for the book your touring, or just for some future book you’ve yet to think up) Crucify, by Tori Amos. Her album, Little Earthquake, was the music I listened to while writing WIVES AND SISTERS. For my next book, SAINTS AND SINNERS, I...
Mark your calendar to see Peter Orner, author of the wonderful story collection Esther Stories, read from his new novel, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo. Monday, May 8, Clean Well Lighted Place for Books on Van Ness. 7:00 Reception with some food at 6:15.
What then shall I do this morning? How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. ~Annie Dillard, The Writing Life Of course it is a rather stupid thing to spend one’s morning reading a book about writing instead of writing the book one is supposed to be writing, the book that has been paid for, the book that a very kind and conscientious editor is waiting for, kindly and conscientiously but possibly inpatiently, because she has every right to be...
