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The New Yorker: "Temporary" by Marisa Silver

Everything is temporary. Vivian is living with Shelly in a temporary space (it's not really housing at all) and they're only temporarily friends. Vivian temporarily hooks up with Shelly's temporary boyfriend. Vivian is a temp working in an adoption agency, where she was hired because she herself was adopted (having temporarily belonged to other parents, I suppose). And her adoptive mother gets very ill but then recovers. Temporarily. And then she dies, having, temporarily, taken up smoking be...

Podcast of New Dominion Reading

The reading I gave on Friday afternoon at New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville is available as a podcast on the Charlottesville Podcasting Network.

Also, Josh Weil's reading from Writer House is available: here.

Poetry Reading: Charlotte Matthews

Branching out a little, The Sacred Circle held a poetry reading this evening. The reader was Charlotte Matthews, who lives on the other side of the mountain. She read from her two books published by Iris Press, one clearly autobiographical and one, the more recent of the two, very dreamy. It would have been nice if more people had come, but it was fine anyway--a wonderful thing to do on a Sunday evening.

Book Happenings

What with teaching and trying to make some progress on my new book and taking care of my sick dog (he's better now!) and doing some promotional work for In an Uncharted Country, I haven't been doing much blogging lately. But there are a couple of events that I did recently that I wanted to share.

On Thursday night, my friend Josh Weil, author of The New Valley, was in the area. He gave a reading and talk at Writer House in Charlottesville, and then we were able to spend some time catching up, ...