One of the good things about having a famous brother is you get free cookies when he does a book-signing, and in the Q&A session you get to ask him probing questions that he has no choice but to answer. Did you know there are people whose job it is to drive visiting writers around to signings? Laura, the delightful woman who was guiding Jay tonight, does this for a living when she’s not in […]
Read moreDay: October 4, 2008
Anxiety Dream #2
I had just remodeled my living room when lava started seeping in through the base of the front wall. Within seconds a grey, steaming, bubbling skin had covered the floor leaving only tiny bare patches of oak. Suddenly I realized: Damn, I shouldn’t have turned on that lava machine!, which I guess was a feature of my remodel — maybe a cutting-edge, green way to heat my floors? I went to flip off the switch […]
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