Lisa Jones's Blog: THE UNBEARABLE CROWDEDNESS OF BEING LISA JONES, page 3

mother of all readings

woke up in a motel room in Jackson Hole. Tonight is the mother of all readings. Stan will speak, Sarah will show photos, 500 people are expected,including a few truckloads from the Wind River Reservation. Wowsers! ( Click for Info)

This youTube video features Lisa reading the book's pref...

This youTube video features Lisa reading the book's preface over slideshow of photos taken of Stanford, his family, horses and home. The photos were taken by Teresa Neptune and Sarah Kariko.

This youTube video features Lisa reading the book’s pref...

This youTube video features Lisa reading the book’s preface over slideshow of photos taken of Stanford, his family, horses and home. The photos were taken by Teresa Neptune and Sarah Kariko.

me and Leonard Cohen

I have a reading in two and a half hours at the Boulder Bookstore. I also have a wicked headache and a sore throat and I sound like Leonard Cohen, who is, at least, the greatest folk singer and vocal artist and poet of the last century and maybe this one too. Be with me, Leonard. I don’t even have the wits about me to upload a picture of you. Sorry.

press, press, nice press and one correction

Here’s a pretty nifty review in the Boulder Daily Camera

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/...

AND

if you want to stream an interview with me on KCFR’s Colorado Matters, tune in here at 10 a.m. or 7 p.m. on Monday, June 1. http://www.kcfr.org/

AND



if you want to hear me read in person, come to the Boulder Bookstore at 7:30 p.m. on Monday (tomorrow) evening.

THERE IS ONE CORRECTION I WANT TO MAKE, SINCE IT HAS BEEN REPORTED TWICE NOW THAT I DON’T BELIEVE THAT STAN CAN CURE CAN

Thanks, Boulder Weekly, for making me say this

I had a really enjoyable interview with PJ Nutting of the Boulder Weekly on Sunday, and it hit the stands yesterday. If you want to read the whole very nice thing, you can find it here:

http://www.boulderweekly.com/20090528...

But the part that made me happiest to read was this, because I’ve never written this:

“Really embedded in (the economic and physical difficulties of life on the reservation) is a spirit of surrender, and we don’t have it. I always thought I did. I thought I was

TIME TO CLEAN UP

My office chair, kindly holding a few things for me

Okay, so I’ve had four readings, and all of them were wonderful. The Tattered Cover/Colfax one was extremely well-attended, which i attribute to the fact that my sister and mother collectively know every living being in East Denver, and they were all there. But, gosh. My senior prom date was there (that’d be you, Steve Epstein), the parents of all three of my high school best girlfriends were there, my very own dear sister Greta flew in from San

i KNEW they were saying things -- some early press on BROKEN

I’m told I shouldn’t only mutter what’s new to myself as I shuffle around the house. I’m told I should put what’s new on THIS BLOG. So, lots of new and nice things are happening around the book, whose formal birthday is just two days away. Check ‘em out!


Interview with the Author: “Broken” by Lisa Jones, by Sharon Glassman, Huffington Post (this includes an audio interview)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sharon-...


“Healing the broken spurs new live, love” from The Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/c...


“Got Warriors?”
from High Country News
http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.7/got-wa...


“The Gentler” from Spirit magazine
http://www.spiritmag.com/features/art...


excerpt from Broken, from New West
http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/...


Get more on Lisa Jones at SimonandSchuster.com

What a place to start a book tour!

Thanks Paonia! And Hotchkiss! and all my old pals and neighbors…

What's not to love? I never don't love this place.

A book is born in Hotchkiss, Colorado

My baby book, after a mere seven years of gestation, was born today, May 12. My first reading will be in less than two hours!!! It’ll happen in Hotchkiss, Colorado, just down the road from Paonia, where I spent 12 of the happiest years of my life. I wanted my first reading to be here

o, paonia!

 because in many ways this still feels like home. Stanford really wanted to come, too,  because he’s met at least a dozen of my friends from these parts, some of who traveled up to Wyoming several times to