Here’s a short essay I wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. It appeared yesterday.
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Here’s a short essay I wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. It appeared yesterday.
Nice review today in The Examiner. Plus: Join me and Sheri Joseph, author of STRAY (and a dead ringer for Edna St. Vincent Millay) tonight at Bookshop West Portal, Neil Sofman’s excellent little bookstore in the deliciously retro neighborhood of West Portal. You might want to catch dinner before the reading at any number of great eateries: Fuji, Roti, El Toreador, Xiao Loong, Fresca, Fuji, Bursa, Spiazzo–and drinks afterward at Portal’s Tavern or Philosophers’ Club.
I’ll be reading at the fabulous Bookshop West Portal on Saturday night at 7:00, along with my friend Sheri Joseph, author of the just-released STRAY. Joseph, who lives in Atlanta, paints a fascinating picture of her city, in a story that follows a love triangle involving a musician, his Mennonite wife, and the young gay man they both dig to the nth degree. Also, there was a very nice review of The Year of Fog this past Sunday in The Denver Post.
I just returned from the Arkansas Literacy Festival, where I had the chance to hang out with the lovely Oxford American folks (check out their new Southern movie issue, so highly readable I read it cover to cover on the long ride back to San Francisco) and to catch up with old friends from Mobile, Tom Franklin (Smonk) and Jack Pendarvis (Your Body is Changing), as well as the wonderful Southern writer Ron Rash (The World Made Straight). I was supposed to appear in a LitQuiz, but I missed it while sipping my martini in the lobby of the...
I have an essay in the current (May) issue of Playboy. (It’s the one with Anna Nicole Smith on the cover). It’s a piece I wrote for Ellen Sussman’s anthology Bad Girls, forthcoming in July. Also in this issue: fiction by the highly sensible Edward Falco (see blog post of two days ago) and an interview with Steve Nash, “the Phoenix Suns’ wiry Canadian point guard.” I have only one question: what is a point guard?
