To celebrate the release of Love is a Four-Letter Word, Michael Taeckens, our esteemed anthology editor, is the Guest Blogger over at the Penguin Blog this week, and today I was the Guest Blogger Guest with my post about the bizarre side effects of writing about past boyfriends. Go ye forth and read as I do Michael’s bloggy bidding.*
And then read D.E. Rasso’s post from yesterday (yes HER, from here! and now she’s back!) and then for the rest of the week read the posts that Said Sayrafiezadeh and Dave White and Maud Newton are going to write! And then buy the book and read the book but I already told you that, right? Or come to one of the reading, like the one I already told you about on Wednesday night, or this one on Thursday or one of the other eight or nine readings. See how we are trying to make it as easy as possible for you to comply, just like with the digital TV conversion?
*Doing stuff for Michael Taeckens is just like when he and I were in college in Iowa City and he worked at the Haunted Bookshop and he was CONSTANTLY asking me to go get him food from the New Pioneer Co-Op deli next door because he was too lazy to ever make his own lunch. The guy can get Kate Christensen and Junot Diaz and Gary Shteyngart and Linda Barry and my girl Jami to be in his book, but he could not get his shit together to bring a sandwich EVER and in fact I’m pretty sure the only reason why I got to be in this book is because I never said bitch, get your own turkey avocado with extra sprouts. Not to his face at least. But of course the moral of the story is to just do what he says.
Okay, heading out to NYC in the morning, and then on Friday making a trip upstate to see La Casa de Farmer Boy. I’ll try to save you some pancakes!!!!
Has there ever been a Road Trip with a bigger appetite??
Interesting NEW YORKER piece. I enjoyed that writer’s articles/books on poets Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. Do you think she is writing one on the Wilders, too? [And her line about Rose is a keeper: “she smoked and fornicated” At least someone was out on that ubiquitous prairie of the past!] The Reagan/Conservative party parallels are also interesting.
Well, Wendy, your timing is likely pitch perfect for your book.
Meanwhile, have a great trip to Malone. We’ve been up there for other reasons but the farm museum was closed. Reading FARMER BOY again right now with our boys and I’m loving all of the food descriptions. They are enjoying the horse and oxen-breaking.
Catherine