Hmmm. This is interesting–What would you pay to star in a best-seller?: The group of 16 writers will hold an eBay auction for the right to name characters in new books to raise funds for an organisation promoting free speech. The highest bidders will have characters named after them or given another name of their choosing, possibly fictional or, with permission, that of a … Read More

http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=read08-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0975396439&fc1=000000&=1&lc1=0000ff&bc1=000000&lt1=_blank&IS2=1&f=ifr&bg1=ffffff&f=ifr Jim Ruland‘s Big Lonesome is now available. Go on and get your copy.

I love the new look and feel of the The Academy of American Poets website. Actually, the look is several months old now but I haven’t had much time to nose around. Anyway, as I was looking around I noticed that they have a program called Adopt-a-Poet–what a fabulous idea! You, too, can be a modern day Medici! Seriously, I love it and if … Read More

If you want to stay on top of what’s going on at Bread Loaf this year, Moorishgirl is keeping a great log of events.

Standing in a bookstore (one of my favorite bookstores in one of my favorite towns) this evening reading Jane Kenyon‘s Constance–specifically Having it Out with Melancholy. It was one of those perfect reading moments when everything else is gone. my favorite bit, I think, has to be the last section: 9 WOOD THRUSH High on Nardil and June light I wake at four, waiting … Read More

Arachnophobia: do I really need another fear?

I’ve lived my life until now free of a fear of spiders. Mostly, I think, because I live in the northeast where spiders are small, hairless things (or so I thought). The only time I recall fearing a spider was when a tarantula the size of my head crossed the road in front of my car (which I pulled to a screeching halt) when … Read More Arachnophobia: do I really need another fear?

Boston Book Signing

Please join Tracy McArdle at theBoston launch party for her debut novel CONFESSIONS OF A NERVOUS SHIKSA Thursday, September 8, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.Armani Café214 Newbury Street (between Exeter and Fairfax) Alexis Manning is a movie publicist with a broken heart, a sick cat, inner religious struggles and a debilitating addiction to movies. When her engagement to her Jewish leading man ends with a … Read More Boston Book Signing

Just got this email from Jordan (and if I was in the area, I would definitely attend): Creating Space: A One-Day Law of Attraction “Play-Shop” for WritersSaturday September 24th, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Library Room. 6780 Depot Street, Sebastopol. Now that the busy days of summer are winding down, take time to focus on your writing goals and desires. … Read More

If you haven’t been following along with Richard Lewis as he reads Ulysses for the first time, you really should. It’s good fun.

For your reading pleasure, please check out the fantabulous Robin Slick at Opium: Fly Casting

So, a guy I met at Squaw Valley (you are thinking: will she ever shut up about this place?) last year and again this year (though I didn’t get much of a chance to chat with him and that’s a shame because he seems like a cool guy and, based on the stories I’ve read of his, is a great writer) is a fiction … Read More

The weather has turned. No fan blowing on me for the first time in three months or so. Leaves are falling. Lilies dying. It’s left me feeling a bit broken-hearted, a bit lost. A bit desirious of change, of moving somewhere fresh, of new things starting up, of back-to-school and soccer games played in the fading light. A bit wishing it was June again … Read More