An excerpt from a note I sent to the U.S. Copyright Office, via the “contact us” page on their Web site, in June: I registered a short-story collection […] with the U.S. Copyright Office a year and a half ago. […] I am writing you today because a few of times in the past year [...]
A room with a view.
Every writer in the country can write a beautiful sentence, or a hundred. What I am interested in is the ugly sentence that is also somehow beautiful. I agree that this is a highly specialized enterprise, akin to the manufacture of merkins, say—but it’s what I do. Probably I have missed the point of the [...]
It’s a trebuchet.
More opportunities to see and hear Cynthia and the band doing Must Don’t Whip ‘Um: this weekend in Philadelphia, and in late September in Los Angeles, and in November in Chapel Hill. Huzzah! (And have you seen the beautiful new Accinosco site, designed and built by Maggie Hoffman of Radiohole? And did you hear that [...]
Transit strike, alingment, a roll of toilet paper in a leather chair in Williamsburg.