I'll be reading Growing Up with Tamales for story time at Blue Willow Bookshop, in Houston, on Thursday morning, May 15. Tell everyone you know with kids in the Houston area. How do you find and support local indie book stores like Blue Willow? By going to Booksense.
On Saturday, May 17, I'll be in Dallas, reading and signing at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, for the 13th Dallas Children’s Book Fair & Literary Festival.
On June 22, here in Houston, I'm going to do a poetry workshop. It's free and open to the public, y'all, and they're having one every Sunday in June, taught by local poets I love and respect. So come on down.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Linkelodeon(i.e., Sending You Somewhere Funnier or More Interesting)
(i.e., what I've been emailing to my friends lately)
This Onion article supposed to be satirical. And, in general, I prefer Banana Republic's and Ann Taylor Loft's "classic" style to that of the Gap. But, in my mind, this is how all men should think about their clothes, and this is how classic and variable all clothing should be:
This Gap Sweater is Fucking Awesome.
Over at The Atlantic, B.R. Myers points out a bunch of emperors who aren't wearing clothes. (This is a big old article about books. Only read it if you are hardcore into books, like I am. Oh, and you have to be hardcore into literary bitch-slapping, too.)
Pop-cult worlds collide as the captain of Serenity goes back to OLTL. Do you know what I'm talking about? Did I just out myself as a geek/loser on two fronts at once?
I heard there was gonna be something called a Maker Faire in Austin this October. I got all excited, thinking it was like a craft fair for hipsters. (With, you know, the ghostly, sad-faced felt animals and appliques and prints that hipster craftsters are always making.) I thought we could go there this fall instead of going to the Ren Fest, which never changes. But then I scoped the web site and saw that this Maker Faire appears to be more about recycling/reducing/reusing, and science. And... bleh. Anybody been to the one in San Francisco? How was it?
There's this site called BookTour where you can look up your fave authors and see if/when they'll be reading at a place near you. I'm telling you this because my editor asked me and her other authors to please register on it. I don't have any readings listed yet, because I'm lazy and bad. But when I do have some readings to report, they will be there. Also, I think my fellow author/blogger Rob might have some stuff on there, so you can scope him out and then tell him he owes me kickbacks for sending you to see him.
The classic mother-daughter talk, simplified.
In case you don't read Gawker or any other site where authors get ridiculed, I'm here to link you to old (yet fascinating) drama.
1. Pulitzer-prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler sent an email to his grad students, explaining (in extreme personal detail) the facts surrounding his wife leaving him. The email got leaked.
2. Robert Olen Butler got upset with Gawker for putting his email online.
3. Robert Olen Butler explains himself, in even greater detail.
As always, the comments are scathing. Only click those if you're hardcore into scathing, literary, super-wrecky trainwrecks.
Labels: flame war, links, pop culture, writing
6:55 AM #Comments:
I saw a thing on the maker faire on some tv show - it looked seriously geeky, and yes, science was pretty prevalent.Ah, if that's the talk my mother had had with me when I had my first period!
Did I mention I'm expecting? I quake in mild terror thinking about having a girl and having to have these kinds of talks.
# posted by
Pinky : 4:10 PM
Thanks for posting that Gwen, I didn't know about Gawker and I laughed my tail off.
I knew Robert Butler was a jerk when I read "I was able to help her a great deal. She says I saved her life".
It reminds me of a profile of an MD on a science-singles (yes I am one of those, we need love and sex too) who said "women flourish when they are with me". He then went on to describe how successful they had become before they left him.
I wrote the moderators and thanked them for not editing the profiles so that Darwinian selection could work in full force.
Vicki
# posted by
: 3:31 AM
Every time I see Nathan Fillion, I think (or say), "That's Joey from One Life to Live!". I also enjoy him in other venues but this sticks in my mind the most. I know that makes me geeky but I can't stop myself.
# posted by
: 10:44 AM
Heehee. Gawker rules.
Men are so creepy when they're condescending. It's the sweet granulated sugar crystals in the icing on the heap of karma he got served.
# posted by
: 3:07 PM
i've been reading you for years but i think this is the first time i've commented.
today i just performed my twice yearly search of all my favorite authors to see when/if they're touring near me. thank you a hundred times over for the fancy pants search engine!
# posted by
Rachel : 4:08 PM
I laughed for about six years at that Gap article. For sure, I know guys who think like that.
# posted by
Alice : 10:46 AM
The Atlantic article was excellent. Thank you.
# posted by
Laura : 11:20 PM
Thank you for sharing that Atlantic article. Absolutely divine.
# posted by
: 12:39 PM
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