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Readings Tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scott McClanahan, Lily Brown, and Jeremy Schmall at Solar Anus!!!!!!!! At the Beep Beep Gallery!!!!!!! At, I don't know what time, shit!!!!!!! But probably at 7 PM!!!!!!!!!!

I'm reading in Baltimore tonight!!!!!!! With Molly Gaudry!!!!!!!!!! For the 510 Reading Series, at Minas Gallery!!!!!! It should be way fun!!!!!!!!

Thanks

to Ryan Call who presented my book at Noo Journal. They're also presenting writerly stuff by writerly pals Heather Christle, Shane Jones, and Joseph Young. There are also books presented that were written by writers whom I do not know personally, but I kind of feel like I do: Natalie Lyalin and CA Conrad.

Speaking of Joseph Young, he read here in Atlanta last night, along with Adam Robinson, James Yeh, and Alexis Orgera as part of a Solar Anus March Madness thing that's going on around here. ...

Just got back

from Baltimore. It was a great reading there, last Saturday night, with Heather Christle, Ric Royer (who also read from Andy Devine's Words), and Adam Robinson and his band Sweatpants kicked things off with some of Adam's poems and the band's tunes. The night before the reading I cooked a five-course meal at Adam's apartment for his cooking show (the soon-to-air Culinary Genius). Saturday afternoon Heather cooked a brunch dish for her show, and we kicked it around the fire pit at Justin...

Keep forgetting to mention shit

Reading this Saturday night in Baltimore with Heather Christle, Molly Gaudry, and Andy Devine. At Dionysus (8 Ea. Preston, near the corner of Charles and Preston) at 9pm. Adam Robinson will be jamming some stuff out from the Sweatpants goodness. Sure to be a good time.

A Couple New Reviews

Thanks to Jason Jordan at decomP magazinE for this awesome and generous review of Prose. Jordan says, "What's most impressive is the language..." And that makes me feel good, as it was something I was very conscious of, very much trying to be creative with verbs, etc. I even have a writing exercise that my students now do, after reading some of the little sections form that book. I have them write a short paragraph, but they have to try to make every sentence some kind of metaphor. They also ...

shtoopid

I'm about 12,000 words into a new-a-so-new novel. It's new in that I'm writing everything from scratch, but not-so-new in that it's basically an old novel that I shelved some years back and have returned to. I was talking to a friend about old writing projects and I remembered this book and started describing it, and my friend was like, that book sounds amazing, and I thought, well yes, I am that kind of genius. Anyway, this feels new, fresh, and completely different that anything else I've w...

Home again

We had this couple on the plane from Atlanta to San Francisco. We wouldn't have noticed them at all, probably, if the husband had not yelled out "Sherman should've burned farther!" We looked at each other like what the hell's this guy talking about? So I guess he was unimpressed with Atlanta, which is surprising for someone who knows so little about history. He wore a cap like Gilligan did on his island and was pretty much a fucking idiot. I said that this was a certain kind of guy who was a ...

Holy Shit

Blake and I had our first truly bizarre kind of question-answer session at a reading, a reading where my bat-shit-crazy-alcoholic ex-girlfriend and her mentally-challenged-alcoholic-claiming-to-be-a-mathematician-who-actually-paints-houses-or-buildings-or-some-shit-now-boyfriend showed up at one of our readings. Has anyone, ever, heard someone attempt for nearly five minutes to get to asking a question without ever asking one or using any logic whatsoever in the process of trying to say somet...

I am lazy

and forget to post things here lately. But there have been some cool goings on. Blake and I are off for a week-long West Coast tour. We're doing the following readings:

February 8th at Dogeared Books in San Francisco, at 7 PM.

February 10th I'm reading at the University of Nevada Reno, at 5:30 PM

February 11th Blake and I read at Sundance Bookstore in Reno, at 6:30 PM

February 12th we read in an as-yet-undetermined place and time in Eugene, Oregon

February 13th we read at Neptune Coffee in...

I've Returned from Russia

There are many things to mention that I've neglected: Piotr Siwecki translated a few things I wrote at Minimal Books. Thanks Piotr. It's an honor. He's also translated friends Molly Gaudry, Matt Bell, Kathy Fish, Robert Lopez, and Kim Chinquee.

A few folks included Prose in their best of 2009 lists. Many thanks to (and I am humbled by) John Madera, Adam Robinson, and Matt Debenedictis.

A short thing from a new book I'm trying to finish was posted at Abjective. Thanks to Darby Larson.

I'm readi...