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For those of you who will be in the Austin area at the end of this month, I’ll be teaching a poetry and zine-making workshop at The Curious Hippo in Hutto (near Austin and near Pflugerville) on Saturday, August 29th, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. There will also be a LOT of festivities happening around The Curious … Continue reading The Curious Hippo
This was such an underrated album. In other news, school is officially starting this week and I am verrrrrry busy with that. I’ll be around but August is not an ideal time for posting new content to the blog.
If you don’t know Stevie Ray Vaughan, you probably need to. He was a legend, an absolute g.o.a.t. of American blues. He tragically died in a helicopter crash, but at least we still have his extraordinary music. When I was in college, I babysat his goddaughter. This child’s father, Tim, had played guitar with Stevie, … Continue reading Monday Earworm: Stevie Ray Vaughan
So unfortunately the jazz I posted yesterday was in fact made with AI, and I apologize for not realizing it sooner. So I’ve taken that down and will instead give you this earworm by Cake. this is a song I always think of whenever I’m annoyed with consumer culture run amok, or when I feel … Continue reading Tuesday Earworm: Cake
Hello! Next week, Wednesday August 5th, I’ll be in conversation with fellow author Melissa Huckabay, whose debut poetry collection, Girl Filling the Sky, is extraordinary. We’ll be at Good on Paper, a bookstore in The Heights. I hope if you’re in the Houston area you’ll join us as we talk about writing, poetry, fiction, teaching, … Continue reading Good on Paper
We’ve been watching The Bear recently; we’re in the middle of the second season. It is, hands-down, profoundly excellent television. It sharply, authentically captures the intensity of growing up in a large immigrant family whose family business revolves around food. This is something I know about. I know it intimately. Even though I cannot say … Continue reading Monday Earworm: Florence + The…
So as I wrote about here recently, last month I had the very great pleasure of attending my first American Library Association Annual Conference, in Chicago. Since my own participation in the conference, as an exhibiting author, took up only a fragment of the weekend, I got to do other fun things in Chicago as … Continue reading Fun Things to Do in Chicago
A mellow tune for a heat-weakened day.
This past weekend my family and I were in Austin for my brother’s wedding! It was so much fun! And I got to be an officiant. (Which meant, of course, that I had to become ordained — which I did — and am now legally authorized to perform weddings, funerals, and baptisms. So that’s an … Continue reading Monday Earworm: Florence + The Machine
A couple of weeks ago I had the very great pleasure of attending my first American Library Association Annual Conference, for their sesquicentennial year (the 150th anniversary). It was in Chicago. This was actually the last stop on the first leg of my book tour for Stray. (Read on to learn about the second leg, … Continue reading Recap of This Year’s ALA
