I was at the library yesterday and when I was looking over the new releases, I was shocked to see How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got A Life on the shelves. Why was it there? Is there no library policy about plagiarized material? I brought this up with the librarians. The first one I spoke to had only vaguely heard of … Read More How Opal Mehta Ended Up on the Shelves at the Library
Had a fun time at the Dire Literary Series last night. The space is a cool, small gallery in Central Square in Cambridge (for those of you not familiar with the area–the city Boston is on one side of the Charles River and the city of Cambridge is on the other. Cambridge is where Harvard University and MIT are and Boston is where Boston … Read More Dire Literary Series–last night
I’m not quite sure why The Boston Globe chose to make this story about women’s clothing size a cover story, but it has got to be something you’ve noticed as a woman–that the size of clothes is not what it used to be: ”I tried on a size 0 skirt and it was too big,” said Chao, a 30-year-old graduate student of molecular biology … Read More Does Size Matter?
Tonight I am a feature reader at the Dire Literary Series, along with Norman Waksler and special guest David Surette . Open mic starts at 8 and features start after 9 and run to around 10:30PM. The readings are held at the Out of the Blue Gallery located at 106 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA. Should be fun and I’m looking forward to it. Maybe … Read More Dire Literary Series — Tonight — Reminder
Snow*Vigate is live, featuring such writers as: Kim Chinquee: Skittles & Down the Road Girija Tropp: Escalate Claudia Smith: Swallow Liesl Jobson: Litter-Bugs Also read: Looking And Smelling Just Like A Present Participle:An Interview With Kim Chinquee
Great stuff. Read the full interview here: Satori Kick: So, Mr. Kesey, we’ve heard “Nothing in the World” has been happening to you lately–would you care to explain? Roy Kesey: Oh yeah, it’s happening everywhere these days. Just this morning I tripped over a small stack of it on the way to the coffee-maker. Broken ankle, forehead lesion, the works. Dangerous stuff, this Nothing.
Phlox (and some Lamb’s ear on the side, spreading out its lovely, soft ears). We don’t have enough phlox. Next door they have a carpet of pink phlox. I want more, more, but we don’t have enough light.Forget-me-nots. Our friends gave us these when we moved here. I’ve spread them out along the edge of the lawn. I love them. These wild violets seem … Read More small flowers
Couldn’t be happier for Richard. It’s outstanding news–Scott Bros. Tackle Killing Sea: Another film about the 2004 Tsunami is in the works. Daily Variety reports Tony and Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions has picked up the upcoming novel The Killing Sea for translation into film for Fox 2000. The novel, by Richard Lewis, will be published in December by Simon & Schuster. The story … Read More Way to go, Richard Lewis!
This is one fan-fucking-tastic story–XEROC 80, Juarez, Mexico, by Darlin’ Neal
I keep thinking I’ve linked to this and then realize I haven’t! Sorry! Please read this fascinating interview of Sue Henderson by David Wilson.
My pal Mark Pritchard, who has been so generously interviewing writers about their current projects, has just interviewed moi about mine. Read all about it here: Freak Magnet. Thank you, Mark! It was fun.
Today marks the final installment of Ink Pot and, as ever gracious, Beverly Jackson offered those of us who were on staff an opportunity to give some parting words. When she first asked us for this, I started writing an essay about all that I had learned in my couple of years as an editor working under Bev, but then as I read and … Read More Thank You to Beverly
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