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Event: A Summer Course at The Venerable Chautauqua Institution
Where: The Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
When: Monday, July 12th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
This summer, I will once again have the pleasure and privilege of teaching a week-long writers’ workshop at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, NY. The dates of the course will be July 10th through 17th; it’s an advanced fiction workshop, focusing on verisimilitude. If you’ve never been to Chautauqua, it’s a kind of paradise for brainiacs, readers, educators, spiritually-minded folks, and all those who prefer engagement with their fellow humans to watching television. Please come join me!
Various good Thomas Israel Hopkins news
A coincidence?
Thomas Israel Hopkins, keeper of the famous Mimeograph 2.0 Paradigm, has two new stories out in journals: “The Man in The Moon Is A Lawyer” in the Indiana Review’s Issue #31.2, Winter 2009 (so new, it doesn’t even appear to be listed on their website yet), and “Sleepwalking,” in Quick Fiction’s Issue #16—which has, on its cover, an illustration of a small boy, brown haired & brown eyed just like the author’s son, wearing a stripey shirt (as said boy often is), and performing one of that child’s favorite activities: drawing a turtle. Can this be a coincidence? Well, I suppose it can. But I’m still quite proud.
A New Greek Testament
Ellinika Grammata has just come out with a Greek translation of The Testament of Yves Gundron, with a beautiful new (and, I dare say, really Hellenic-looking) cover. (I mean, look at those horses!) Please tell your Greek friends to look for it!
I Dare You to Read These Blog Posts
This week, my friend novelist Jessica Anthony is the guest blogger on Powell’s book blog. I’ve been enjoying all her smart, goofy, irreverent posts, but I’d particularly like to draw your attention to the entries for Wednesday, August 19th and Thursday, August 20th: a two-part conversation, on the topic of writerly dares, with the brilliant, funny, and did I mention very handsome Thomas Israel Hopkins. And while you’re over there, check out Jess’s novel, The Convalescent!
Facebook, Finally
Only a few years behind the curve, I’ve created a Facebook page on which to post information about publications and events. If you’d like to receive news about upcoming thisses and thats, please go to Facebook and sign up to be a fan. You can also sign up for my mailing list by typing your e-mail address into the appropriate box on any page of this website.
Cynthia Hopkins & Gloria Deluxe
Cynthia Hopkins & her amazing band, Gloria Deluxe, will be playing at the Bard Spiegeltent on Saturday evening, July 25th, at 8:30. Alt-country meets Weimar cabaret! Don’t miss this show!
Marilynne Robinson’s novel Home
My review of Marilynne Robinson’s wonderful novel Home in the Los Angeles Times, Sunday, September 7, 2008.
Eli Miller’s Seltzer Delivery Service
Here’s my essay about one of the last seltzer delivery men in New York City. The piece originally appeared in the anthology Brooklyn Was Mine, Riverhead Books, 2008, and was republished at Nextbook (which is now Tablet magazine), January 2, 2008.
Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book
My review of Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book is in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, December 30, 2007.
The Big Schlep: My Review of Michael Chabon’s Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Here’s a link to my New York Observer review of Michael Chabon’s new novel; it originally ran May 1st, 2007.
Review of The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
Jim Crace’s novel The Pesthouse may have been somewhat eclipsed by Cormac McCarthy’s The Road when it came out; but I think it’s a fine (and quite disturbing) book. Here’s my review, which ran in the Los Angeles Times, 29 April 2007.
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