TT: Absent but present

I'm still on ice at the MacDowell Colony , writing furiously and happily, but I've just made two guest appearances in cyberspace:

• Today I contributed to Beach Reads for Smart People , a summer-reading list posted by my friend Hannah Miet on The Atlantic Wire . Among those present: Stephen Elliott, Sasha Frere-Jones, Emily Gould, Frederick Kaufman, and Marcy Dermansky. I don't feel remotely cool enough to keep such company--it's as though I crashed the wrong party.

• Jon Winokur quizzed me a few days ago for his AdviceToWriters site. You might find my answers interesting, or not.

Now, back to work!