Micah Nathan's Blog, page 8

Epilogue, some thoughts on criticism and self-promotion.

The VA Festival was terrific---a loose gathering of writers/agents/editors/industry folks all connected by a love (and sometimes loathing) of the writing world, spiced with booze, plied with appetizers, and given the freedom to say pretty much whatever they wanted. A gentleman on one of my panels referred to male ejaculate ...

Ah, home.

I'm back in Holliston. An update tomorrow---I promise. Much sleep needed.

Charlottesville was great.

'night-'night.

dry, dry

The old gods--shuffling, sheathed in husks of chiton and stone--raised their throats to the sky and prayed for rain. Behind the brooding mob rose Culver City.

I've been working on a Lovecraftian story involving Elder Ones returning to Los Angeles and finding it uncomfortably...dry. Okay, that's not true. It was just ...

Uh…what day is it?

Things look a bit dusty in here.

It's been a while, yes? Let's get right into it: The Virginia Festival of the Book starts this weekend (18th-20th) and you'll find me speaking on two panels, beginning Saturday morning at 10:00, then I eat lunch, then I hop to another table for ...

Updates

1. A new series of radio interviews will be posted as soon as I get 'em. I'm guessing a few weeks.

2. The reading at Newtonville Books was grand. Thank you to Urban Waite, Jaime Clark, and the NB crew. I signed a bunch of stock, so if you're looking for ...

Literally, Literally a Virtual Reading.

A month-ago discussion among my former-basketball-teammates-now-fellow-gang-of-fools involved a eulogy for literally; the correct meaning has been lost, we all agreed, and now we must use literally, literally. So here is literally, literally a video of my reading at Northeastern.



I was very thirsty. I literally, literally drank a lot of water.

Neil ...

This is supposed to be kinda' entertaining.

But sometimes it just seems like a string of self-promotional updates (the ostensible purpose of an author's blog, yes?) and then I take a look back and realize: Uh-huh. It IS just a string of self-promotional updates.

Though I much prefer the shameless self-promotion instead of the usual blog-gy stuff. You ...

Radio

Today at 5 p.m. I'll be on Boston University's WTBU station, talking about the book and other stuff. You may listen to the live broadcast here.

Nice-T, Clarification, Mail

I still can't make sense of Ice Cube's line from "Wicked":

Kickin' out girls that's nicety

Yo, I gotta' body count like Ice-T.

I get the Ice-T reference (Body Count was the name of his lousy heavy metal band) but what's nicety? Maybe a derivation of nasty? Or a portmanteau? Or maybe I'm just ...

Gods of Exeter

It felt a bit...uncanny walking through the Phillips Exeter campus because it reminded me of Aberdeen College (from my first novel Gods of Aberdeen). Uncanny because there is no actual Aberdeen College and even more uncanny (perhaps Baudrillardian would be more accurate?) because I hadn't visited Exeter before, yet it ...