Category Archives: writing
VII
Athenae says “writing is only real on the first draft.” So here you go. === For the second time this year, and only the third time in my life, I am holding in my hands a book with my writing in it. Yes, an actual book. Not a blog entry, not an online journal, not [...]
A Howling in the Wires
Last month’s Poets and Writers had a neat little article about the state of writing in post-Katrina New Orleans (including a shout-out from fellow Franklin alum Brad Richard about Do You Know What It Means). My writing “career” (shee-it, careers pay money) didn’t start til Katrina, but this quote from John Biguenet’s essay “The What [...]
run-on sentences, kept warm by
OK, so I really didn’t expect anybody to comment. That was all just padding to make my “hey, look what I noticed!” thoughts fill out to be long enough for a blog entry. Y’all should read the story, though. And Catch-22. And Kevin Wilson’s short story collection Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, which [...]
It doesn’t want to come out
In my head the story is beautiful, it flows and aches with sadness, but on the page it’s drunk and stumbling, stammering over simple phrases, tripping over its own shoelaces, knocking over chairs, talking too much too loudly and then lapsing into awkward silences, never finding the right words and finding too many of the [...]
Back when blogging was REALLY slow and needed a stamp
For the second time in recent memory, I’ve run across a blog post about a punk zine I published back in college with my friend Rob Stewart. Oddly enough I had just run across what I believe is my last remaining copy of the thing the other day in a mixed box of old comics. [...]
Me neither, H
I just don’t wanna. When I’m lyin’ in my bed at night I don’t wanna grow up Nothin’ ever seems to turn out right I don’t wanna grow up How do you move in a world of fog That’s always changing things Makes me wish that I could be a dog When I see the [...]
Control
[Minor spoilers ahead for people who don't know anything at all about Joy Division.] The other night I got to see Control, the new biopic about Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis, who took his own life in 1980 at the age of 23, thus sealing his status as an eternal rock legend. I first learned [...]
An Afternoon With Authors
If you happen to be watching TV right now, switch over to CSPAN2. They’re rebroadcasting this afternoon’s Press Club of New Orleans event, “An Afternoon With Authors”. Many post-Katrina book authors are on-hand, including some from Chin Music Press’s Do You Know What It Means anthology. Sadly, I had to turn down a panel invitation [...]
DYK Reading in Austin
This weekend BookWoman in Austin will be hosting a reading/signing for Chin Music Press’s Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? I’ll be reading from my story, “I Was a Teenage Float Grunt”. Austin film geek and New Orleans native Juliette Kernion will read from her reminiscences of New Orleans movie theatres, [...]
New Orleans visit #4
Last weekend got off to a great start when I managed to get a picture of the DYK anthology on display in the airport bookstore. Right below Rising Tide, right next to River Road Recipes, and if you look closely at those blue books on the top shelf, that’s A Confederacy of Dunces. Fine, fine [...]
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