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Two Whole Public Appearances This Week. Worst Hermit Ever.

After four months of solitude and whatnot, this January has me out among the herds in a way that makes me seem far more extroverted than is personally accurate. In the first two weeks of this month I read some new stuff with some pals at 826DC, and lectured a bunch of Hopkins pre-med geniuses [...]

Monday Time Wasting: Bookfalling, BigBearing, Literary Vulgarity in Baltimore, and Tiki Barber Goes Head-to-Head With Salman Rushdie.

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 [...]