I posted over at the Milspouse blog about the CSA Danielle and I are members of. Now that it’s summer, we’ve got more veggies than we know what to do with: radishes, Swiss chard, broccoli rabe, spinach, mesclun, kale, and potted herbs that we can grow at home (we chose rosemary). Half the fun is …
I’ve never read anything by Mr. Vidal, but maybe I should. He’s a lively old guy. Literary Lion – Questions For Gore Vidal – Deborah Solomon – NYTimes.com
My friend John e-mailed me this link about ‘misery lit,’ a.k.a. ‘grief porn.’ While I’ve certainly been aware of it, mainly via supermarket and Target book sections that inevitably include copies of A Child Called ‘It’ and it’s sequels, this is the first I’ve seen about a specific genre or special bookstore section. Does Borders …
The Morning News has a gallery of phone sex workers and an accompanying interview up on their site. It’s totally safe for work, and it’s really interesting.
Last night I passed the 10,000-word milestone in my rewrite of Lithium. Milestones, in writing, are all kind of arbitrary. The only one that really matters, career-wise, is publication, and even then you could be looking at a very long journey up the mountain. I guess it depends on what’s at your mountaintop: publication? a …
I have a new post up at Milspouse, The Test up at Milspouse.com. Danielle’s in class from 9 to 5 all week, so it’s just me and the boy: He slept a lot on Monday and Danielle’s class finished early, so I didn’t have to give him a bottle even once. Today was different. The …
The cover of the New Yorker fiction issue is hilarious. Way to capture the zeitgeist. Via Coffee and Diapers.
I’ve finished Charles Baxter’s Feast of Love, and I enjoyed most of it. His writing style reminded me of Paul Auster’s. One of the things that drew me to the book was its critical praise (it was a National Book Award finalist in 2000), but what made me actually buy it was that it was …
WARNING: Sort of contains a Battlestar Galactica season 3 finale spoiler, so maybe don’t read it if you’re not caught up in the series. Me: ‘Do you hear that, or am I losing it?’ Danielle: ‘Maybe…’ Me: ‘I keep thinking I hear music.’ A few minutes later: Danielle: ‘You’re not losing it. It’s the copper …
That’s right, we went to the Newport Clam Chowder Cook-Off yesterday with some friends. It was 80° and clear. A beautiful day to eat copious amounts of hot fatty chowder. There were, of course, interesting things to see (people, mainly). The best part of going to any of these summer festivals is the people watching. …
