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May 7, 2012
I keep insisting that Bolling Greene is fictional, but the brilliant Jon Hunt just found this LP at an estate sale.
Continue ReadingThis week’s Twin Cities events
May 7, 2012
dylan hicks poster-1 Several Minneapolis events this week: On Thursday I read at the Loft; On Saturday the Toughies and I play at the Bryant-Lake Bowl at 7:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.; and on Tuesday we do an in-store at the Electric Fetus. I know there’s a better way to […]
Continue ReadingBooks I’ve Never Finished
May 6, 2012
I’ve had a few people searching on lyrics from my song “City Lights,” specifically the lines, “You’re so much older than me / You can remember things I’ve only read about / in books I’ve never finished, though I’ve intended to.” Anyway, the song can be found on my 2001 […]
Continue ReadingDays of Dayton, Nights of Columbus
May 6, 2012
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_5iJLxZUBo Here we are performing on the Current’s “Local Show.” The whole show will be broadcast tonight from six to eight o’clock. Moreover, later this same night–at nine o’clock–I’ll return to the Current as one of the guests on the second edition of “Words and Music,” on which Jacquie Fuller […]
Continue ReadingStill More Shameless Self-Linking
May 6, 2012
There was a very nice item today in the Star-Tribune’s “The Five Spot,” a weekly roundup of staff favorites. From the review: “The joy in Hicks’ debut arises less from plot than from the writing itself: nuanced, ingenious, perceptive, funny. Music plays a role, but doesn’t dominate. A heartfelt sadness […]
Continue ReadingReplacements Headline To Boot
May 6, 2012
It was a treat to read Michael Makowski’s generous review of Boarded Windows in the Brooklyn Rail. An excerpt: “But this book is not merely a postmodern exercise in notions of truth, nor is it merely funny and intelligent; it is fundamentally a sincere and heartbreaking tale of loneliness, a […]
Continue ReadingWhat’s This “It”?
May 1, 2012
Well, today I came across a mistake in the finished book, which I’ll now explain with a heavy and mortified heart. It’s near the top of page 91, in the middle of long sentence that starts on page 90. In manuscript I had written, “… she’d gone to the driving […]
Continue ReadingKMSU Weekly Reader
May 1, 2012
I enjoyed talking to Amy Fladeboe on the KMSU Weekly Reader.
Continue ReadingReading tomorrow at the U of M
April 30, 2012
I see that I’ve been inconsistent in the writing the headers for these blog posts, sometimes using headline style, sometimes sentence style. I’ll have to work that out. Anyway, I’m reading tomorrow at the University of Minnesota’s excellent bookstore in Coffman Memorial Union, at 4:00 p.m. Not any convenient time […]
Continue ReadingNew Logo
April 30, 2012
To the right is my new logo, the product of several minutes of thought and effort. And here’s the review of Boarded Windows in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. I’m pleased that the review referenced Mary Gaitskill’s Veronica, one of my contemporary favorites.
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