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Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 230 entries, all of them here in full.
July 8, 2008 · 858 words
The Bard of Utah
We are in Cedar City, Utah, home of the Utah Shakespearean Festival. Kathy had been trying to get me to the festival for years. “I have seen Shakespeare in London,” I told her. “I have seen Shakespeare in Stratford. Wherefore would I wish to see Shakespeare in Utah?” Which I still maintain is a perfectly […]
Read entry →July 7, 2008 · 794 words
Americana
This teepee motel, by the way, was across the highway from Bubba’s Hickory Bar-B-Que and Welding Supply. I took this picture on the Fourth of July. I am here to tell you that the real America— the America of teepee motels and Bubba and two-lane blacktop— is still very much alive. We passed by a […]
Read entry →July 3, 2008 · 96 words
Time Off!
I’m going away again. I’ve had four trips out of town in the last two months. The shortest of these trips was a week. Travel has beaten me into the ground like a tent peg. I am a wreck. Yet here I go another time. But this trip is different! The other trips, while fun, […]
Read entry →July 2, 2008 · 98 words
Even More Available!
Implied Spaces is even more available! Powells.com has restocked! Even Amazon has copies now!!! (And what the hell was their problem, anyway?) And, even cooler, in order to raise anticipation along with your level of salivation, Night Shade has made an excerpt available online! But that’s not all! You can also read an
Read entry →July 2, 2008 · 159 words
I AM EVERYWHERE!!!!
There seems to be a plethora of me available these days. (Except on bookshelves, apparently.)Locus magazine is offering an interview with me free with a subscription, or for $3 if you’ve got the money to spare. An elegy for Aristoi is to be found on the Lost and Lonely Books List. Jeffrey Thomas, author of […]
Read entry →June 26, 2008 · 47 words
Available!
Implied Spaces is available at powells.com! And Pete Johannsen has already got his copy! (I repeat this news for those who have not been following the Implied Spaces Watch.) To quote William Mulholland on the completion of the Los Angeles Aquaduct: “There it is! Take it!”
Read entry →June 26, 2008 · 262 words
George Carlin, Who Art in Heaven
Last night Bravo re-ran an Inside the Actor’s Studio featuring an interview with the late, extravagantly lamented George Carlin. James Lipton asked Carlin his version of the Proust Questionnaire. Among the questions was, “When you die, what would you like God to say to you?”“‘At last we’ll have some fun up here,’” Carl
Read entry →June 26, 2008 · 374 words
Grumped
I’ve been getting really splendid reviews for Implied Spaces, and it may seems ungrateful of me to quibble with some minor aspects of what are otherwise terrific notices. But that’s exactly what I’m going to do— and I’d like to think I’m not acting entirely out of ego (though of course I am), but out […]
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