Friday night my friend, Hypster Mom, hosted a sort of literary salon featuring J.C. Hallman author of many things, most recently the short story collection The Hospital for Bad Poets.
Before he read a story he talked a little about a book he edited called, The Story About the Story. Specifically he talked about the [...]
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Jan 10
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Jan 10
Literary Salon II minus the electric boogaloo
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Nov 09
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Nov 09
Worth $30 just to hear Owen Meany’s voice
As we stood in line waiting to get into the venue housing last night’s John Irving reading, Sister #2 set out a few ground rules.
“One,” she said. “There will be no hugging. ”
There was more on the list, but I was too distracted by a nine-year-old wearing heavy makeup, falling off what can only be [...]
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Oct 09
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Oct 09
Four things about the Lorrie Moore reading last weekend
She’s funny. Which wasn’t wholly unexpected because her stories are funny. But it was reassuring. She was so funny that my nephew Max, who is going to be 11 in a few weeks, laughed. A lot. And it wasn’t because she was talking about butts and/or farting.
She loves Alice Munro. Really, really, really, really loves [...]
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May 09
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May 09
Last night I met an author and didn’t do anything stupid, which is a first
It isn’t often when my love of Rock & Roll collides so beautifully with my love literature. Last night it did at Arthur Phillips’ reading for the delightful, delectable, delovely The Song is You
Phillips, who grew up in Minnesota, read in the huge Carl Pohlad hall at the Central Library in Minneapolis. The place was [...]
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Aug 08
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Aug 08
Dear David Carr, I am sorry I am not Paul Westerberg
Last night Jags and I went to see David Carr read at Magers & Quinn and it was awesome. It was packed. People were sitting on the floor, standing in the stacks, and lined up out of the room. It was the kind of turnout that I wish every book reading had.
It was made [...]
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Aug 08
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Aug 08
David Carr reading tonight at Magers & Quinn
I just wanted to remind you forgetmenots that David Carr is reading at Magers & Quinn tonight. After much hemming and hawing, I have decided to attend. I’ll be the tall girl looking uncomfortable and out of place. Say hi.
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Aug 08
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Aug 08
A few more things about the Ethan Canin Reading
you can see where he screwed up because I made him nervous
I’m having a hard time writing about the Ethan Canin reading from Wednesday night at Magers & Quinn. The combination of nerves and having my mind blown has turned my memory to Swiss cheese.
I do remember standing in line with Jags, Peabo, Dale, [...]
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Jul 08
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Jul 08
Two things I can tell you about the Ethan Canin reading
1. Ethan Canin told me I was making him nervous. I wasn’t even doing anything creepy. All I did was introduce myself and told him that the e-mail he sent me about my post on America, America made my summer. “Now I’m nervous,” he said. He was so nervous, in fact, that he misspelled a [...]
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Dec 07
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Dec 07
Don’t be careful with your love
I have long been of the belief that one should never meet their heroes because it’s bound to be disappointing. Really, what can come of a meet up with someone who you’ve invested so much in and who doesn’t know you from Adam?
Well let me tell you this darling ones, I was wrong.
Yeah, I was [...]
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Sep 07
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Sep 07
How I’ve been ruined by Joshua Furst
“I read that because I heard you were going to be here,” Joshua Furst the author of the absolutely wonderful (and challenging in a good way all books should challenge you) The Sabotage Cafe said.
“Where’d you hear that?” I asked because I should not be allowed to talk to total strangers.
“Oh,” he smiled. “From my [...]
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Oct 06
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Oct 06
Exercising the Sister #1 Power of Tune Out
Since I’m Sister #1 I sometimes get to be a bit of tastemaker for the Sisterclub. Now that I think about it, that’s totally delusional. They generally ignore me and go right on listening to their Killers and Dixie Chicks and Cowboy Mouth, despite what I tell them they should listen to.
But when it comes [...]
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Sep 06
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Sep 06
Mary Gaitskill told me I had a radiant smile
Mary Gaitskill is tiny. She wore a perfectly tailored, brown pinstriped suit (the one here. The podium came up to her chest, and she read from Veronica under the heavy, dark eyebrow of Frida Kahlo.
At first I thought she came off as cold. But the more I watched her, the more I listened, Gaitskill wasn’t [...]
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Feb 05
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Feb 05
ohmygod. ohmygod. ohmygod. ohmygod. i am never washing these shoulders again
let’s get this out of the way right off the bat. . . DOUGLAS COUPLAND HUGGED ME. me. yes me. i was hugged by DOUGLAS COUPLAND.
the stink, sister #2, and i ventured to the Barnes & Noble at the Galleria in Edina to see and hear Coupland read from his latest book Eleanor Rigby. sister [...]
