It’s a lit-y couple of weeks, apparently. Readings and book festivals are spread across the DC/VA/MD area like a thin, delicious film of literary mayonnaise (or something), which is exciting if you’re me but kind of grating and awkward if you’re my wife. Either way, I’m a little late to give a good preview of [...]
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Well, David Foster Wallace took his own life the other day. I don’t want to get too mushy, but this is sad news on all fronts. DFW wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea. He wasn’t even mine sometimes. His fiction meant a lot to me in my very formative years as a writer, but in recent [...]
The last few weeks have been pretty hectic, and during this time a bunch of people that I know have made some things happen. So mixed in with your standard links to everything under the sun, some long overdue news about my acquaintences accomplishments. Nice, right?
Congrats to person I know and DC-deserter Ryan Call, who [...]
A few weeks ago I posted about an orientation event that the Capitol Letters Writing Center planned for incoming volunteers that was postponed at the last minute. Well, its on again, this time in a new location at a new time: Tuesday, September 9 at 5:00 p.m. above Kramerbooks in Dupont. I recently had the [...]