Don pops the question
in Cali, with Anna’s ring
Megan says, “Oui, oui!”
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Joan the Director
a title without money
soon to be mommy.
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Topaz pantyhose
a quarter-million client
Peggy breaks the streak.
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Out with the old, right?
New house, new wife, a new life.
But what’s new gets old.
The best defense is
an anti-smoking letter
in the New York Times.
It’s a Girl! for Pete
No clients, no Agency
Megan, Faye: for Don.
Over at KoreanAmericanStory.org, there’s a nice recap and also a link to my Backstory essay that I read at the event held on 9/15. I’ve hijacked their pictures here! Many thanks to the wonderful audience that came out for our little reading.
Scared, tired Whitman.
Joan aborts? Lane leaves for home.
Un-Lucky Roger.
Runaway Sally.
Joan and Roger, mugged and loved.
Astronaut Ida.
Sunday night, I was sitting at our dining room table, half watching the football game between the Manning brothers and wholly reading James Dickey’s Deliverance. It was about ten o’clock, and the moon was out, and there was enough light from the kitchen window to cast a shadow on something odd on the floor.
An essay I wrote for The Nervous Breakdown.
Book reading and wine reception — that’s a pretty good combination. If you happen to be in the NYC area tomorrow night, please come by Korean Cultural Services at 460 Park Ave.(57th Street), 6th Floor. In addition to yours truly, Alex Chee and Taehun Kim will also be there to read from their works. It all starts at 7pm.
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Writer, swimmer Don.
Peggy defends, offends Joan.
Mad men, mad women.
The Brooklyn Bookfest has come and gone, and what a fun-filled couple of days it was. I took part in the Bookend event on Friday night at powerHouse Arena, then returned on Sunday to take in the literary scenery. Some of the folks I got to hear: Brooke Berman, Daphne Beal, Matt Stewart, Aryn Kyle, Dennis Lehane, Steven Millhauser, Peter Straub, Stewart O’Nan, Sigrid Nunez, Benjamin Percy. That might be about 1% of the authors who were at the event, so I’ll have to do better next time. In any case, here are some pictures in case you weren’t able to make it.