What fun! Karen E. Bender will be swinging by Southern California on her book signing tour: Diesel Books in Brentwood on June 4 at 6:30 PM. RSVP by purchasing her new story collection The Words of Dr. L on their site. dieselbookstore.com/event/karen-...
Everyone else’s dogs are so clever. My Pom-Chi (one of my three riotous cuties) points at the TV with his nose. Looks at me, looks at TV, looks at me, looks at TV. I turn it on. He sits on my lap all perky and waggy and talks to the TV hilariously. Mostly to animals, but he also growls at villains.
‘From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scru of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, “Look at that, you son of a bitch.”’
Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut
Idiot in chief strikes again.
It’d add thin as gruel characterizations following character arcs that are situational cliches. Half the time I fail to believe the characters could exist in the world as we know it. And why are descriptions passé? Someone please explain that one to me.
At the launch of Janet Clare’s second novel True Home. Here she is in conversation with Samantha Dunn. Please purchase and read this wonderful novel, published by Vine Leaves Press.
Come one, come all! If not, purchase and read this remarkable novel.
How I loved this album when it came out. Played the heck out of it.
I enjoyed binge-watching this limited series on Netflix. Yeah, it’s fluff; however, the characters have depth and irony, and the performances are strong. Plus it’s unflinchingly from women’s perspectives and hinges, at times disturbingly, on their own autonomy rather than on rescuing men.
Great fun to catch up with my friend and mentor Richard Bausch at Arvida Book Co. in Tustin, California at his launch of his tenth story collection The Fate of Others. Here he is in conversation with his Chapman colleague Samantha Dunn.
Excited to read more from Yiyun Li, who I have long admired, and also to attend tomorrow the Orange County, CA, launch of Richard Bausch’s latest story collection The Fate of Others. I was honored to study with Richard this past Fall. He’s a fabulous storyteller, on the page and in person.
I am so happy for Janet and had the pleasure of workshopping with her and witnessing the development of this brilliant novel. It’s a great read! Enjoy!
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I love her writing. To feel and live and write with this kind of pain seems unimaginable.
Hi Nik! Glad you found me. Love this one!
I’m his daughter! Glad that his class was a life changer for you. Still hard to believe he’s not in the world eleven years after his death.
I’m a doodler with fountain pens. Here is one of my recent ones, done rather quickly while at AWP Los Angeles. I used a travel pen — a Pilot Custom 74 SF hacked to EEF by nibmeister Kirk Speer.
Wow, wonderful.
Love this one! Glad I found you, Eleanor. Xoxo
I painted this portrait of Hakim Tafari when the world of art & running were merging for me. So many things Hakim said resonated with me in that arc of art and athletics, including the idea that both allowed for liberation through focus 🖤
Acrylic on canvas board, 40x40cm
#art #running #inspiration
I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards
And I was impressed that my Pom-chi talks to the TV. He has many opinions about the shows we watch. I wish we had a doggy to English translator.
They restored the page to how it was. Wish their AI system was as intuitive as actual human beings are, LOL!! It would have taken months if someone hadn’t intervened.
These buttons are from my personal collection. When I began writing about Verna and her family, I bought a handful of antique and vintage buttons to examine them and thus understand her obsession with them. Hundreds of buttons later ….
My beautiful children.
Tickled by the middle-aged male parking lot attendant reading Fear of Flying in the opening scene of the first episode of Poker Face’s second season. Enjoying the show’s Columbo vibes, plus Cynthia Erivo’s Peter Sellers turn as quintuplets.
Yeah! Hi! Glad to reconnect!
The latest, thank god, is that an actual human being at Facebook has pushed my appeal to the top of the pile. What happens when you know a gal who knows a gal. Fingers crossed.
So I was hacked on FB, bummer, also tired of their BS. So here I am, a literary fiction writer, brand new to all this. Glad to be on board!