Real quick: just want to send out congrats to excellent PIK Patricia Engel, who The Roving Editor reports just signed a two book (story collection/novel) thing with Grove/Atlantic, which is tremendous news for people who like good writing. Patricia’s stories are relentlessly readable, and her characters tend to be bound by a kind of simmering [...]
The fine folks at NewsHour did Capitol Letters and The Way We See It two big, huge solids today: first they named Cardozo Senior and TWWSI contributor Javairia Henry’s poem, Graffiti, their “Weekly Poem“:
Then, a couple of hours later, they posted a fine round-up of the TWWSI project, featuring student authors Stephon Buckner, Shayla [...]
Today marks my third, smoke-free month–I quit over spring break this past semester–and in honor of the milestone I received in the mail a nice little gift from my buddy Gerald, currently on a West Coast excursion: an empty pack of Taiwanese, Longlife cigarettes, complete with duel warning labels depicting a mother and child dying [...]