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Cinema
I went to the theater on a school night, not so much because I felt like seeing a movie, but because it was cold out, insanely cold, and I thought it would be an adventure to sit in a theater, in a...
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Two new pieces, "Corpse" and "Smoke," went live on New World Writing today. Although they were written weeks apart, early last winter when I was living in Philadelphia, they weren't originally intended...
View ArticleThree and a Half Hours
Three classes this semester, fifteen thesis students, a low residency student, a job interview next week, three readings during the week of the job interview: stomach is churning, churning, burning....
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Found
Two boxes arrived from Houston today, boxes of mine that had ended up in my friend Nick's storage unit. How they got there, and how they got from there to here is too long a story for now--and not...
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This is Not to Say My Snow is Bigger Than Your Snow...
I know it isn't, especially if you live in East Setauket, Long Island; or Storrs, Connecticut; or Worcester, Massachusetts right now. But I wanted to show you Asbury Park last night, around midnight. I...
View ArticleConcentrated Joy
Here I am reading "The Physics of the Known World," as recorded by Brian Turner in a little room at Sierra Nevada College, January 13, 2013. (More posts on the way.)
View ArticleSimultaneity
Back on February 13, I introduced Mary Gaitskill when she came to read for the Writers at Rutgers series on the campus at New Brunswick. Here's a section from that intro.*****We will start where it...
View ArticleIn the Unlikely Event (and two other pieces)
This event took place on Valentine's Day at Google headquarters in NYC, where I read with Alex Dimitrov, Victoria Redel, and Jonathan Wells.
View ArticleOther Voices, Other Writers
Here's an interview I just did with Amy Yao, a student in Jill Talbot's Male Gaze class at St. Lawrence University this term. I'm happy to be one of the writers chosen for this project, who include...
View ArticleThe Fugue, Alison Bechdel's ARE YOU MY MOTHER, DFW, and the Resistance to the...
Some of you have been asking for the text of the talk on simultaneity I read at the "Progression by Digression" panel at AWP in March. Below is an excerpt of the full piece which went live on ESSAY...
View ArticleFable
Here's "Fable," a passage from THE NARROW DOOR, the memoir coming out next year. I wrote it during my three-week stay at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown last month--I'll post some pictures...
View ArticleTake Four
A new Take Four interview in FOUR WAY REVIEW. FWR:As one might expect in a story called “Lent,” there are a number of references to abstention, and to the intentions that motivate its practice. In this...
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21 Days
Pictures from my three weeks in Provincetown, as promised.Fire Islandish house next to Murchison (aka Gropius) House.Them thar dunes.That yellow-red boat.Underwater tree at Herring Cove.Captain Jack's...
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It is a Fruit Like the Mind We Are Making Together
Some shots (before, after, during) from Laura McCullough's and Kathleen Graber's amazing reading at the Sea Isle City Library last night. And below, "America (Peaches)," from American Poetry Review,...
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Field of Reeds
I don't know how long this link's going to be active, but I'm going to pass it on anyway: These New Puritans' new album FIELD OF REEDS, which you can stream here for free. It goes without saying I like...
View ArticleA Cog in Something Turning
Joni Mitchell as part of a group performance of her song "Woodstock" at Toronto's Luminato Festival on Tuesday. This was preceded by "Don't Interrupt the Sorrow" and "Furry Sings the Blues," which was...
View ArticleWagoneer
I'm waiting for many things at the moment, but three things are rising to the top: two new stories of mine to find endings; a furniture delivery, which is tying up the afternoon; and my week of...
View ArticleDuplex
I have my hands on the ARC of Kathryn Davis' DUPLEX, which is out sometime this fall. I won't get to spend time in it until Juniper is over, which is probably why I'm typing out the opening three...
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Oldest Known Wild Bear
At 39, the world's oldest known wild bear still roams Northern Minnesota.
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In a Ship Made of Ebony Splinters
I had a new light fixture installed in the hall today. As the electrician held it up by the cord, he accidentally touched the base, which made it inadvertently shiver like a sea creature, which brought...
View ArticleHumidity and Aridity
from THE FARAWAY NEARBYby Rebecca SolnitYears ago I visited a friend who lived on a houseboat and while admiring the lemon trees and prickly pears flourishing ferociously in half-barrel planters on his...
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A Dispersed Set of Nodes
from THE FLAMETHROWERSby Rachel Kushner...We seemed to share certain ideas about what happens in childhood, when you have to place yourself under the sign of your own name, your face, your voice, your...
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