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The Guardian on Mystery Hill
Eric Brown thinks you should read it: “Everything about this novella is delightful: its breezy telling, the touching relationship between Ken and Fara, the deadpan humour, the casually fatalistic denouement. Wonderful.” You can check out a sample (and, of course, order the book) at the PS Publishing web site.
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Sriracha
This NYT piece reminded me of a takeout place called Jerusalem in Denver, right by DU. We used to eat there all the time, and once a fellow grad student who shall remain nameless bet another grad student (a poet named Gautam Verma) that he couldn’t coat his tongue in Sriracha. Gautam did, about a…
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Barrelhouse, Smartish Pace, Pree, Baseball!
The Baltimore Barrelhouse/Smartish Pace hoedown was a blast. Thanks to Dan, Dave (even though he didn’t show up), Stefan, and the rest of those responsible. All of the readers were terrific (maybe even me), and the bands were cool, too. If you’re not listening to Pree already, give them a try. We bought their disc.…
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Jack Spicer Event in NYC on Friday
I’ve been a Spicer fan since Ken Norris introduced me to his stuff in a grad class. I re-read the Black Sparrow edition of his poems every so often, and I stole him from history to use as an important character in my novel One King, One Soldier. Now Spicer’s biographer Kevin Killian has done…
Crooked House Fictions 