Hey, this from my brother-in-law, Burl:
An interesting fact that you probably already know….Spellcheck wants to change “michellerichmond” to “malnourishment”. Has there been a word coined to describe such spellcheckisms? You know, like Jon Carroll calls the way you heard a song lyric, compared to the actual lyric, a “mondigreen”. [...]
“There was something cold and hard about her: if you set her afloat on the nighttime sea, she would probably sink any boat that happened to ram her.”
“The heavy aroma of cooked chicken quickly filled the little elevator. It mingled with the smell of the rain. Water droplets dotted the floor, suggesting that someone with [...]
The book release party at Good Vibratons last night for Stephen Elliott’s new story collection, My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up, was great fun. GV provided beer, wine, and eats, and, in part because of their excellent promotion of the event at the Folsom Street Fair, in part because, hey, [...]
Come help us celebrate the release of Stephen Elliott’s new story collection, My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up, tonight at Good Vibrations on Valencia. 6:30 p.m.
Readings by Stephen Elliott, Justin Chin, Carol Queen, and Michelle Richmond (c’est moi). More details here.
The new issue of Fiction Attic is now online.
In Issue 19, Fiction Attic returns to its original inspiration with three very short stories by James Warner, Jay Boyer, and Kevin Brown, plus a longer hullabaloo by Todd Chapman and artwork by Thomas Kearnes.
We’re also pleased to bring you an interview with Katia Noyes, whose [...]
If you’ve never attended a reading at a sex shop, well love, here’s your chance. It’s the book release party for Stephen Elliott’s racy new story collection, My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up. I’ll also be reading, as will Justin Chin and Carol Queen.
Says Stephen: “This is an [...]
Gloria Frym, whose previous collection, Homeless at Home, won an American Book Award, has just published Solution Simulacra, and will be reading in the Poetry Flash series at Black Oak Books (1491 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley) on Sunday, September 24 at 7:30PM. Joining her will be Beat poet and jazz guitarist David Meltzer. Read Gloria’s [...]
“He had always been awkward about crossing public space, and could not do it without feeling somehow cheesy and hucksterish, as though he were crossing a makeshift dais in a Legion Hall to accept a diploma from a bogus school of real estate…”
“If you can still see how you could have once loved a person, [...]
The long-established and much-respected Kenyon Review now has a fantastic literary blog.
Wendy Tokunaga has something to celebrate. She’s just signed a two-book deal with St. Martin’s. The first novel, Midori by Moonlight, will be released in Spring 2008. Wendy is a San Francisco writer who is currently in the MFA program in writing at University of San Francisco.
