For the June Glimmer Train bulletin, I wrote about how I called it quits 300 pages into a novel I was writing a couple of years ago, and, suddenly freed, I began writing a completely different book, which would become No One You Know. Read it here. I also wrote a longer piece for the…Continue reading Accidentally Finding Your Way
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limesink
Here’s a funky, interesting website out of LA that seems to promise good things to come. A bit hard to navigate at the moment, but definitely worth poking around. Featuring mixed media “movellas,” writing about art, and humorous send-ups of politicos. Nice tunes, too. Now, how this website came to my attention is a funny…Continue reading limesink
living library
It feels somehow profane to write about books at this moment in history, in the aftermath of the terrible cyclone in Burma and the earthquake in China, when tens of thousands of people are missing, and hundreds of thousands more are homeless. But I felt compelled, nonetheless, to link to this beautiful essay in the…Continue reading living library
Tonight at the Makeout Room
Time for the Progressive Reading Series! I’ll be reading with Jane Smiley (Ten Days in the Hills), Yiyun Lee (A Thousand Years of Good Prayers), Charlie Anders (Choir Boy), Laura Fraser (An Italian Affair), and Jeff O’Keefe. With special guests- The Progressive Reading Series All Star Minstrels, and Board Of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin. Hosted…Continue reading Tonight at the Makeout Room
Ben Fong-Torres – Cameo King
Today at Red Room, my friend Ben Fong-Torres blogs about what it’s like to appear as himself in works of fiction. Most recently, he has appeared in Steer Toward Rock, by Fae Myenne Ng (forthcoming), In the Key of Death, by Bob Levinson, and No One You Know, by yours truly (forthcoming). In the latter,…Continue reading Ben Fong-Torres – Cameo King