Howard's Friend Comments

If you're one of the many people who often find themselves thinking "I wish somebody would write a scary story about multifunction printers," the wait is over:

http://www.theawl.com/2013/10/a-scary...

Howard wrote: "Oh, I've got that writing without much success thing down, so if you need any tips..."

I think I've forgotten everything there is to forget.

Oh, I've got that writing without much success thing down, so if you need any tips...

Howard wrote: "Hey, Alan. Things are okay. I admit to being a tiny bit jealous of Sandy’s article, but she deserved it. I wrote a little of the book (embarrassingly, the list of authors I covered—Conrad, Melville..."

I'm good thanks. Trying to write without much success, but otherwise good.
It was a big two page article! I might buy the book so I can pretend to have read everything too..

Hey, Alan. Things are okay. I admit to being a tiny bit jealous of Sandy’s article, but she deserved it. I wrote a little of the book (embarrassingly, the list of authors I covered—Conrad, Melville, Twain, Fitzgerald, Defoe, Beowulf, Roland, etc.—looks like A Boy’s First Book of Literary Heroes), but after watching her read everything from the Odyssey to Ulysses, and enjoy it, it was obvious this was going to be more her book than mine. Besides, I've made it this far without reading Milton, Dante, or the Cavalier poets, and I wasn’t going to throw that away now.

And how are you?

Hi Howard,
just to say I saw an article about Sandra Newman's Western Lit survival Kit yesterday (in the Sunday Times) which gave you a mention. (said it was your idea but you backed off..) Anyway how's things?
Alan

Howard, thanks for letting me know!
that may be thanks to karen of goodreads fame
I shall have to get down there to see for myself...

gave the novel 5 stars. sorry for the short review, but... you know how it is.

Hey Howard, thanks for the friend invite! I've always enjoyed your posts, though I'm pretty sure we've never dated either. There might have been a drunken night or two in Tijuana, but those don't count. Congrats on the books! I'm gonna get Age of Consent. How's the new one coming?

I don't remember having dated you either, Howard. Hmm...

We might have dated. My experience is that the women I go out with tend to suppress the memory, so if you don't remember having gone out with me, that's a good indication that you did.

You're creepy? Goody! (Are you sure we never dated???)

Hey, are you gonna enter the Haiku contest in Mini Am? It's possible that I'm the only one psyched about it. But DAMN, I'm psyched! :)

Nah, it's not really that scary. More creepy than scary. Like me.

Age of Consent is en route to mi casa. Amazon is shipping it to me at an exorbitantly high cost. Sweethearts. :)

PS. Am I gonna be scared and have to hide under my blankets???

Hi Howard! MFK Fisher is (was) actually my best friend's grandmother. Neat, right?

I also like spinach.