(Not that the three of you who check in here on a regular basis don’t already know this stuff, but here goes.) In addition the the Red Cross, NPR has a list of other places to make cash donations here. BoingBoing has a gazillion useful posts. Terry Teachout and Our Girl in Chicago have compiled [...]
I’ve been worried sick about you all day. I haven’t visited in two years now, and I miss you terribly. The last time was for the second NOLA Book Fair. That weekend R. and I went to Fiorella’s, like we had the year before, to hear Bingo! play. We’d gone originally with J. and H., [...]
I’m so excited. I just got tickets to this New Yorker Festival panel discussion: When Reality Fails Fantasy and invention in fiction. Deborah Treisman, moderator. With Martin Amis, Judy Budnitz, A. M. Homes, Stephen King, and George Saunders. I’m a little worried, though. These five writers all on stage together could mean a completely fascinating [...]
Remainders, etceteras.
Do you know this feeling of serendipity, when your reading list starts talking to itself, books doing a tango in your brainpan? I’m reading Haruki Murakami’s The Elephant Vanishes right now (which is awesome), and in the story “Family Affair,” I read this passage: We talked for a while about airplanes. Having just read several [...]
An afternoon upstate.
1) I just went through the speediest version of the writing and publishing process I’ve ever experienced. It was like a lit journal sub on crack. As follows: Last week I noticed that Hobart is having a special themed issue; the guidelines, which are here at the moment (but most likely won’t be for more [...]
Now live: the site I designed for Colson Whitehead. It uses Movable Type as a content management system, but is it a blog? Assuming the term means a vehicle for frequently updated, self-published content—or content for its own sake—I don’t think you could call it that, no. (Even using that definition, some balk at the [...]
Years ago, when I first started this site, I was horrified to discover, looking at my site stats, all the appalling search terms visitors had used to end up here at tomhop.com. (I imagine most new URL owners must experience the same horror.) The search term rankings were an astounding list of orifices and organs, [...]
The Poets Walk.
On September 25 I’m running again in the Komen New York City Race for the Cure. Want to support me? The easiest way to do so is to go here and make a donation electronically. A donation of $50 is the smallest of the pre-set levels, but you can make a smaller donation too. After [...]