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The James and Mary Laurie Booksellers, 250 Third Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN, couldn’t have been a more hospitable place for poets to read. On April 10, Lunar Chandelier (Kimberly Lyons) and Unarmed magazine (Michael Mann) presented: C. S. Giscombe and … Read More
Literary magazines live! In print (Local Knowledge 2) and online (Talisman 43). Both new issues include work by both Basil King and Martha King… Read More
November 6 at 6:30. Basil will read from his new book, The Spoken Word/The Painted Hand (Marsh Hawk Press, 20l4*) and his old friend Hettie Jones will read some of her not-yet published short fictions. They are both being presented … Read More
Three trips this summer: 1) To Sag Harbor, where the factory in which a large cohort of young working women licked the brushes they used to paint glow-in-the-dark watch faces. They later died horribly of radium poisoning, their teeth more devastated … Read More
Found: Notes on Gentility (date unknown) I’ve never understood women in expensive restaurants who whip out lipsticks to remake their faces right at the table. Inspections in the compact mirror. Baring teeth to check for crumbs of lipstick or food. … Read More
Robby that son of a bitch, he’s too nervous to know what’s good for him, he’s had it too easy, going from oil to oil. It’s been nothing but one straight line for him starting with his home and school … Read More
Hetty arrived in mid-summer. Basil’s parents had taken our daughter Mallory out to Long Island where Esther (her grandmother) and some of her relatives could dote on Mallory while we waited on Second Avenue to deliver her sib. We two … Read More
I’m one of 29 contributors to Wreckage of Reason II subtitled “Back to the Drawing Board.” … Read More
Literary mischief, bravado inventions from two dazzling writers: Prose Pros presents Lynne Tillman and Lynn Crawford at SideWalk Café, March 6, at 6:30. Lynne Tillman’s fourth collection of stories Someday This Will Be Funny, was published in May 2011. And … Read More
Prose Pros is me and Elinor Nauen. We’ve been presenting monthly prose readings for seven years! Our two readers for February are Jenny Allen (New Yorker columnist) and Nancy Giles (CBS-TV columnist). A first for us: both writers have outstanding … Read More