And So It Begins…
It only looks like I’m telling a ghost story.
Guys, the first reading happened! Last night in New York City’s famed KGB Bar I had my first reading! Well, the first reading where I had actual books for sale. And people actually bought Hello American Lady Creature: What I Learned as a Woman in Qatar!
Huge thanks to Jonathan Kravetz for organizing this reading, and to Greenpoint Press, aka, the indefatigable Charles Salzberg, for bringing books. For those of you who couldn’t make it, this was my favorite question: “So who said ‘hello American lady creature’ to you?”
And the answer… is in chapter 4, “Mafi Mushkilla,” an Arabic phrase I translate thusly: meaning no problem, though the words sound more like what you might prefer — the swift blow of a hit man — as opposed to to the lack of action that’s about to transpire.
But for reals, not a ghost story. It all happened.
