"Howdy, Kurt"

I've shared details for the reading with all my favorite East Lansing residents (East Lansingites?)

Mostly liking this out of Yankee Hate Solidarity but have to admit that is a sweet grab

Sox Home Opener is postponed due to shitty weather, so fill that void by reading this story of mine in @havehashad.com about one that wasn't postponed...

www.havehashad.com/web_features...

Such a great album and one of the best songs about April Fools

Goggling the hell out of "Landau Coat"

Not enough Flea? Layer in his recent Finding Your Roots episode and the Netflix Hillel Slovak doc (which was really good)

Glad she's able to stay caught up with all the latest research

He talks about it a little at the beginning of Adventures in the Screen Trade (but not enough to figure out where he lived)

Looks like she knows to walk away from The Game on top

Have you listened to Across the Borderline? It's a few originals but mostly Willie doing covers. The Lyle Lovett song and Don't Give Up are stanfouts.

I love this and 1965, but this was my intro to them (I think after seeing them play "Blame, Etc" on 120 Minutes). Amazing.

That means six more weeks of winter...

They can't do that. I feel weird if I play that album at home or in the car and I don't check in with a friend first.

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Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

Go see Meghan read at AWP (for those of us who can't make it)

Had this w/ a short story. For years (& a few BH workshops), couldn't get the ending or voice right. Set it aside for a year, then changed narrators & wrote a simpler ending. Also wound up taking some of the scrapped endings & making them their own linked stories, four of which have been published.

One of the Olympic reporters needs to ask Edward Appleby why he never returned that Jacques Cousteau book to the Rushmore library

Portis. I have True Grit in my re-read stack already.

Anyway go to the rally tomorrow outside WaPo HQ and support the Washington Post writers!

Lush Life by Richard Price

The biggest signal an American human can ever receive that they are deeply and profoundly fucking up is finding themselves as the bad guy in a Bruce Springsteen song.

Butcher's Crossing (same author) is also really good. Definitely recommend it.

Reading Muriel Spark with Emily Adrian — Great Place Books Join author and GPB cofounder Emily Adrian in reading the dazzling fiction of Muriel Spark. This class will meet four times to discuss four of Spark’s most original, ambitious, and tightly constructed...

@greatplacebooks.bsky.social courses are back! With a seminar on the short novels of Muriel Spark.

www.greatplacebooks.com/spark

Same here - I mean, it's almost 40 degrees out

Don't believe that cover -- not enough people are talking about that book (or God Knows, which is also really good). I read it before I had kids and it was still really moving -- should make time for a re-read.

I think I need a Jernigan re-read - it's been a while.

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pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written