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ALWAYS HONORABLE

NEVER A WINNER
Art (above) by Lola Dupre. Welcome to Link City! 

This week, a collage piece I assembled, "Carry Me to Heaven," may be found at, appropriately, the Collagist. I put it together from Alyse Knorr's wonderful Mega-City Redux, the lyrics to Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, and a book about Victoria Woodhull. Plus a single sentence of my own composition. Find it and win a prize! 

Here's a super-fun Books I Hate interview with Lynn K. Hall, author of the memoir Caged Eyes, which I read many months after I should have. It's a stunner of a book, and it crosses the wires on a few of my interests: feminism, the military, trauma. 

I did not win a contest I hoped to win, but I was a finalist. This is at least the fourth time this has happened with my writing: honorable mentions from the Washington Post, Elixir, and Writer's Digest, but still no wins. 
What I'm thinking about:
  • When my Australian illustratrix friend was in town last weekend, we went to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal and also to a pop-up called the Scum and Villainy Cantina. Everyone wants your money, but sometimes what you get in return is worth it.  
  • A friend pointed out to me a couple of years ago that the longer you do writing, the more readings start to become an obligation to people you know rather than a fun way to discover new writers. Honestly, as long as it keeps leading me to cool venues, like Beyond Baroque and the Poetic Research Bureau, I'm all right with that. 
  • Rebecca Solnit's piece on Trump moved me almost as much as Garrison Keillor's piece on Trump, which I have not stopped thinking about since August 31, 2016, despite everything that's happened since. 
What I'm reading:
  • The Week by Joanna Ruocco. I don't know what to call this kind of writing. Earlier this year I read The Babysitter at Rest by Jen George and had the same reaction: do I like this? yes. do I know what this is? not a clue. 
  • The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney by Christopher Higgs. A worthy challenge. And a great example of experimental work teaching you how to read itself. 
Upcoming:
  • Lucky me, I landed a couple of interesting book reviews. More on that as it develops. 
  • I really thought I'd have information for you about the next workshop I'm teaching, but I'm in the middle of a housing calamity, so it's going to have to wait until that resolves.
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