Last night, I went to the 92nd St. Y for a literary reading. Well, half of a literary reading. The writer I went there to meet was William Gass, one of the best writers in America (and therefore, cynically speaking, one of the least read). Mr. Gass and I had spoken a few times before, [...]
A Brush With Fame
Feb 23, ’03
10:33 PM
Saturday was one BLEARY night in NYC, off gallivanting with my high school buddy Adam. Got back to his apartment around 3:45am, but not before stopping at a “street meat” food cart a block from his midtown apartment. We met up with Debbie, another high school friend, who was, Adam informed me, Cindy Crawford’s personal [...]
News To Abuse
Feb 22, ’03
4:07 PM
Sorry not to have written in the past week. Work’s been hectic, and my evenings have been spent at work on that Paul West book (“The Immensity of the Here and Now”). I’m going to publishing it, and hope to have it all put together in time for a hardcover release by 9.11 of this [...]
Straight But Not Narrow
Feb 16, ’03
10:25 PM
Spent yesterday down in Philadelphia, helping out my friend Robert Drake. In 1999, Drake was beaten nearly to death by a couple of queer-bashers in his apartment in Ireland, and has been slowly rehabbing since (he’s in a wheelchair now, and likely will be for the rest of his days). After the attack, his loved [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day
Feb 15, ’03
10:03 PM
It was a happier Valentine’s Day than I was expecting. As if in response to my Pattern Recognition complaints, something astonishing happened yesterday. I received what may be the first legit post-9.11 novel. Background: in addition to editing a pharmaceutical trade magazine by day, I run Voyant Publishing, a small press publishing house, by night. [...]
I’d Order the Fish
Feb 15, ’03
8:23 AM
Feb 10: Traveling to Phoenix for a pharmaceutical conference (day job). Off my head right now, mainly from not getting enough sleep (the result of a double-OT finish to the NBA All-Star Game last night, and my compulsion to finish reading Gould’s Book of Fish before this trip. It bears re-reading, which is as high [...]
Who’s Next
Feb 8, ’03
3:10 PM
Having run out of shelf space, I’ve been placing newly acquired books in a stack beneath my hall table. It’s my intent to read those titles before getting to work on any of the others that are already shelved in my apartment. The books in this “to read” pile are: Gould’s Book of Fish – [...]
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
Feb 6, ’03
10:16 PM
I’m doing this to prove a point to Chip Delany; namely, that it’s quite easy to keep a weblog. Hopefully, he’ll see the value in such a thing, given that he thinks quite profoundly about a number of subjects and might be willing to share such things with the general public. But it’s just a [...]
