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I’ve been on the road for about a week now, and have added around 1,700 miles to the odometer on my trusty Honda Fit. As I’ve traveled, I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts – including getting my feet wet in writer Julian Simpson’s Pleasant Green universe. I’ve read Simpson’s newsletter Cartoon Gravity for
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I got to Chicago late last night, after Google Maps routed me through some of the loneliest roads in the state of Illinois. Today was relatively quiet: before heading over to Pilsen Community Books, I caught up on some work and chatted with Ben Tanzer for his podcast. The event was truly heartwarming; I owe
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I’ll have a lot more to say about this year’s AWP in a later post. For now? It was great to catch up with friends in Kansas City from all walks of life. Sadly, there was no barbecue in the cards for me due to bad planning and the substantial popularity of Nate Bargatze. Now
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Some impressions on Columbus, Ohio from someone who’s never visited it before: Currently holed up in New Castle, Indiana catching up on some work en route to Kansas City. Which will be a slightly longer drive than I anticipated. Am also trying to figure out if one of my phone chargers imploded overnight, which I
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Hello! I’m touring again. Solo, this time. The last time I did anything on this scale it was 2017 and duncan b. barlow and I got in his manual transmission Honda Fit and drove from Santa Fe to Chicago. This time around I’m alone, the Honda Fit is (a)mine and (b)an automatic transmission, and the
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Every Christmas for the last few years I’ve contributed a story to Jon Solomon‘s 25-Hour Holiday Marathon on WPRB. This is this year’s. Thanks to Jon and WPRB for this; if you’d prefer to listen, you can do that as well. What do I remember from my childhood? Well, to begin with, this: there was
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InterviewsDoug Melville on Invisible Generals (InsideHook); Hannah Carlson on Pockets (InsideHook); Douglas Brunt on The Mysterious Case of Rudolph Diesel (InsideHook); Chris Hadfield on The Defector (InsideHook); Bethanne Patrick on Season 2 of Missing Pages (Vol. 1 Brooklyn); Sean Michaels on Do You Remember Being Born? (Vol. 1 Brooklyn); Andrya Ambro of Gold Dime (Vol.
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[a new and recurring “hey, what did I write during that month, anyway?” feature in these parts.] Interviews Maria Smilios on The Black Angels (InsideHook); Yepocka Yeebo on Anansi’s Gold (InsideHook); Will Hermes on Lou Reed: The King of New York (InsideHook); Wes Davis on American Journey (InsideHook); Joshua Viola on True Believers (Vol. 1
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A while back, I mentioned that Transitory is being reissued with some extra stories (think of it as the CD version of an LP and a 7″) by 7.13 Books next year. Well, now that edition has a cover… Big thanks to Olivia Croom Hammerman for her design work on this. Speaking of revisiting older
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I don’t think I’d realized how much I missed the Brooklyn Book Festival until yesterday. That has something to do with the fact that there was an iteration of the festival last year, albeit one with no bookfair due to deeply awful weather. And there was something about the experience of walking through the area
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