Writers, list up to 5 not-writing jobs you've had for at least 6 months each: 1. bartender 2. entomology laboratory assistant (aka bug pinner) 3. disc jockey 4. record store sales person 5. art gallery sales person
Jesmyn Ward, Cinelle Barnes, and Water Mosley will be visiting University of South Carolina this fall: sc.edu/about/office....
Great writers, readers and friends will gather for three author visits in September and October for the University of South Carolina Fall Literary Festival.
I decided to do one final "proofread" of my new manuscript ... and added 10K words.
There's also a research angle to the trip, and I'd be grateful for recommendations for fiction set in or nonfiction about Panama circa 1899, including the United Fruit Company. (Also great: recs for contemporary Panamanian novelists!)
My now life is half stuff making me smile and half stuff kicking my ass. (Life=life.) In the smiley category: I'm spending the last two weeks of the year on a Panamanian island with my daughter. That gives me four months to get surfing strong, which is ... harder than it used to be.
Good news! You can now pre-order all three of our Fall books (out 9/17) directly from our distributor @nyrb-imprints.bsky.socialwww.nyrb.com
The JD Vance donut-shop encounter needs to be staged as an avant-garde theater installation.
I meant to make *friend* plural, but maybe that's accurate since my pals seem to all use different social media sites these days.
Local friend, come on out this evening! It's a serious honor to interview a former student (University of South Carolina MFA alum Chris Koslowski) about his terrific new novel: KAFAYBE (freshly out from McSweeney's). All Good Books, 6 pm.