Monthly Archives: September 2014
Am I Blue?
“It always starts with a blue Volvo, driving away.” —Still Life Las Vegas In some ways, my book must be a big pain in the ass for my publishers. I mean, they bought a novel, but it’s not just a straight up novel. There’s narrative art in it as well (the twenty-buck term for cartoons). […]
September 24th, 2014
Billie Holiday, Augusten Burroughs, and Underwater Dogs: Business and Pleasure in New York
A week on the East Coast. One last hurrah before the blessed regularity of school kicks in. Four moves in six days. Beds of varying comfort. Uniformly good showers (except the one at that hotel where the water was perpetually tepid). These are the ways older folks measure their vacations. First stop: Rhinecliff, in upstate […]
September 1st, 2014
