It looks like The New Yorker has a ton of letters Raymond Carver wrote to his editor Gordon Lish, (my favorite part? When Carver refers to Tobias Wolff as Toby) and (hooboy does this excite me) from what I can tell a story called Beginners which might be the first incarnation of the story we [...]

News to me: Raymond Carver’s story “So Much Water So Close to Home” has been turned into a movie called Jindabyne. Interesting.

allegedly the iBook is going to be delivered today. we still don’t have a name. lots of wonderful suggestions, i cannot deny that. it also seems that y’all have a knack for picking names that belong to various pets of people i know. . . MacKenzie, Oscar, Oliver.
so i’ve come to the conclusion that the [...]

i’m working from home today. generally this means sitting around in pajama-like clothing with unbrushed hair eating pancakes. today, this is not the case at all. today i had to get dressed and brush my hair. i did however, just eat some delicious peanut butter pancakes so the day isn’t totally wasted. but i had [...]

yesterday was Raymond Carver’s birthday, which makes him a gemini just like me. and that makes me smile. in other birthday related news, you now have only 11 days until my birthday. time is running out, you might want to start panicking now.