So happy to report that Solace in So Many Words will be part of the Pop-Up Bookfair that will be taking place Sunday, December 9, from 2 to 7 pm at The Empty Bottle. Here's the lowdown. (Thanks to Victor David Giron!) BUY some freshly toasted BOOKS at the POP-UP BOOK FAIR on DECEMBER 9TH! In conjunction with Chicago Writers House and The Chicagoan, Curbside Splendor Publishing presents: A POP-UP BOOK FAIR! Chicago's finest independent … [Read more...]
Under construction
Home has been undergoing some changes lately. And by home, I mean my literal home and not the "home" page on this website. I am still happy with my home on the web, it's just been ignored lately as I have been doing some remodeling projects at my home base. When I was planning this construction I imagined myself tethered to my house but productive, you know, writing and working as lines were plumbed, tiles set and counter tops installed. But that's not the case. I have been … [Read more...]
Two Announcements
First, we've been working to make Solace in So Many Words a good choice for book clubs. To that end, we have added a new page on our website. It's a drop down link under Solace in So Many Words, and it is a comprehensive list of discussion questions for every entry in the anthology. You can check out the questions directly here. Some of the questions were suggested by contributors, some were written by Yana Passater, and some were written by Laura Briskman, who then … [Read more...]
Dave Bonta “Ode to Scythes”
I met Dave Bonta at the AWP Conference in March. He was working the Motion Poems booth, which was next to my table. We swapped books and talked a little poetry. We became FB friends, and I got to learn more about him through his posts, most of which are about Via Negativa, a site I encourage you to investigate. Dave describes it as a “personal web log with delusions of grandeur,” and also as a “mélange” in which he posts poems, photos, essays and videos, the occasional … [Read more...]
October news– T. C. Boyle, Carol Kanter, Wally Swist, Susan Mahan and more
T. C. Boyle's fourteenth novel was published in September by Viking. It is called San Miguel and on his blog, the author describes it this way: “It is set on the island of the same name, the most northern and westerly of the California Channel Islands, and the story it tells derives from my research into the ecology and history of the region for my previous novel, When the Killing’s Done. . . . This is my first book-length narrative in the conventional realist mode, sans … [Read more...]
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