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April 17, 2013
Okay, I promised I would update this thing infrequently, and once again I’m living up to my promises. Here’s what I have to report: I’m a bit over halfway through a second novel, and am also doing freelance work and other things not worth describing here. I have a title […]
Continue ReadingA minus!
September 18, 2012
I’ve been reading and often rereading Robert Christgau since I was a teenager, so it was a thrill to get this typically sharp short-form review, a form of which Christgau is a past master. Alas the book made his “teeth hurt,” but he liked the songs and even “loved” the […]
Continue ReadingI Forgot to Remember to Forget
September 5, 2012
Such a thrill that my novel helped inspire Patrick Nathan’s lucid and acute essay about fiction and memory in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Continue ReadingFriday at Banfill-Locke Center
July 12, 2012
I’m reading and singing this Friday night (the 13th) at Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts in Fridley. Here’s a link to their website’s listing, and to the Facebook event page.
Continue ReadingCafe Waugh
July 12, 2012
One of my favorite passages from Evelyn Waugh comes from the author’s note to Vile Bodies. As they say, wait for it: “It has been suggested to me that the chronology may be a little obscure. The book begins on November 10th, and the events of the first six sections […]
Continue ReadingPoets & Writers
June 26, 2012
It was kind of Sam Lipsyte (whose forthcoming story collection I eagerly await) to interview me for the summer issue of Poets & Writers. I’m noting this because I’ve set a precedent for noting most press for the book, though the practice is touch more embarrassing when I can’t specifically […]
Continue ReadingI think that concludes the book tour
June 14, 2012
It was fun, mostly. Here’s a little interview in MinnPost.
Continue ReadingTwo Events in L.A.
June 1, 2012
So I’ll be in Los Angeles (which this stupid website thinks I’m misspelling) next week doing two events and hanging out with friends and my wildly supportive family. The event I’m mainly promoting is my reading on Wednesday, June 6 at Sklyight Books. (Here’s the Facebook event page, if that […]
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