Two intriguing surprises today. 1) Short Stack, the WaPo’s blog about books and writing, has apparently expanded its content to include something other than innocuous top five lists, and 2) part of that content included this recent bit of publicity about Syntax DC, a possible “communal space” for DC writers–not unlike the Brooklyn Writers’ Space, [...]
A couple days before Valentine’s Day I’m flying up to Chicago to get frostbite and go to the AWP conference (Mardi Gras for lit nerds). While I’m there, on Thursday February 12, along with about twenty or so writers–all of whom I served food with at last year’s Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference–I’ll be reading at [...]
I’m thirty-one today, which means that the wife and I spent the grand portion of this cold, cold day mostly on our couch, avoiding apparent responsibility and watching whatever we damn well felt like. That included Current TV’s InfoMania–mostly a watered-down, hipstery version of The Soup, but usually enjoyable nonetheless. Featured on this week’s “We’ve [...]
So I got my contributor copies of the Fall/Winter 2008-2009 issue of Ninth Letter, which contains an essay/memoir excerpt/whatever I wrote a while back and read a little of at Bread Loaf this past August. The issue, as always, is kind of exquisite. The simple white cover is among my 9L favorites, and though I [...]
At last year’s TED Conference–which is sort of a yearly comic-con for preternatural geniuses–Dave Eggers made a $100K wish that “creative individuals” would “find a way to directly engage with a public school in [their] area.” The wish gave way to Once Upon a School, an annotated database of nationwide projects aimed at enriching the [...]