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Independent Booksellers Support Fledgling Authors (by Tess Callahan)
Most of the events on my book tour so far have or will take place at independent bookstores. The people behind these stores, wave makers in the industry, are feverishly devoted to books. Originally,…
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hardy garden hardening [with full deniability, the furious Jennifer Michael Hecht]
This young cuke has a wrong idea about how to hold on in life, but the old flower is enjoying the attention. Those soft tendrils. oh bleaders, i grow weary. do you grow weary?…
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The Marble Debate by Eleanor Goodman
Last week Heinrich, who as a resident of London has seen virtually none of the tourist attractions around town, accompanied me to the British Museum. It’s an amazing building chock full of artifacts from…
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The Perfect Day: An Experiment (by Tess Callahan)
So, I’m trying an experiment. Bear with me. Stacey, creative mastermind of this website, commented on my post yesterday, (Cracks in Everything: Parenthood and the Writing Life), that she often has a perfect blueprint…
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“Last Will and Testament” [by Kimberly Steele]
Last Will and Testament Life is a molehill of unreadable documents and deathis a stapler. If you live long enough, your footstepswill trace out a giant Rorschach test. You can givethis to posterity. But,…
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Nyet
The head of the Office of the Independent Counsel was just about to go insane, because he wanted so badly to possess a copy of a certain satirical quarterly publication. Indeed, you might…