Ever since the age of four

Mike McGonigal in the Green Room at Bumbershoot I'm Making a List On the eve of surgery I have this urge to make a list of all the outst...

I can almost hear you Having lived with a perforated eardrum for a few years now I am finally scheduled for surgery. What they do is called...

Come and Set a Piece: NYC Reading Sept 18th: Reading in NYC with Luc Sante at 6:30. Here's the blurb from the New Yorker : knitting fac...

Heading to Bumbershoot I'm writing from Holocene, the 3nd night of the Halleluwah Festival, listening to a group hum. Tomorrow it's ...

Portland No better way to return to life than listening to Califone do a soundcheck at a club in Portland, Oregon. I'm reading here to...

Went to the Ulster County Fair. Ate a corn dog, walked through the 4H poultry house. New beloved writer: Sonia Rivera-Valdés . Beautiful sto...

Tammy Faye as Ghandi I Geniunely Love You The mess and scandal of Jim and Tammy Faye had always left me wondering about her. How much can s...

Lantern slide of Waterfalls in Woodstock, NY, ca. 1904 Coffee and Paper The Literary Gazette (its own glossy-covered tabloid section in the...

Jessa Crispin of Bookslut Pancakes and Sausage A few more words about Chicago: The Book Cellar , which handled sales at the Bookslut reading...

Was Chicago This week, Thursday is the new Monday like global warming is the new pollution. Which is like realizing that Tyranosaurus Rex ha...

Mark Rothko, 1969 Is absolutely Chicago The long walk from O'Hare to the Blue Line ended in a strange, subterranean, humid hall, kind of...

In Retrograde The headlines have been dark. The supreme court may have just effectively reinstated segregation. A car was found filled with ...