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KABIR + HOT SPRINGS
BASED ON A TRUE STORY
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May was an interesting month for me personally, if a somewhat less interesting month professionally. One of my main publications was with Bitch, which assigned me to review the new film about JT LeRoy. I ended up writing something a little more thoughtful about LeRoy as a figure.
In other news, you can preorder my ebook "After Gardens" from the Wild Rose Press. It's a short story in the genre of women's fiction, only available in e-form, and a bargain at only $0.99. The ebook's release date is June 19, but you can order it now and it will be e-delivered then. I'm very pleased the story found a home at the Wild Rose Press, and can't wait for you all to read it.
This month's Books I Hate subject is Bethany C. Morrow. She's a hell of a writer and was great fun in this interview. Her first book, MEM, came out exactly a year ago and is now in paperback.
Finally, the generous and talented Gayle Brandeis offered me my first blurb for Ceremonials. It's a beaut:
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Recent Book Reviews:
- For the Kenyon Review, Catch, Release by Adrianne Harun. This one came out in December, but the KR has a long lead time. Wicked little short stories.
- For the Adroit Journal, The Conviction of Cora Burns by Carolyn Kirby. A powerful and wonderfully detailed novel set in the late Victorian period.
- For Book & Film Globe, Juliet the Maniac by Juliet Escoria. Very potent autofiction. I had two lovely exchanges with the author on Twitter and email, and I really hope to meet her sooner or later.
- For Locus, a bunch of books: Tides of the Titans by Thoraiya Dyer, What Should Be Wild by Julia Fine, Smoke and Summons by Charlie N. Holmberg, and The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull.
- For the Women's Review of Books, a dual review of Banshee by Rachel DeWoskin and Choke Box by Christina Milletti. Not online, alas.
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What I'm reading:
- Stet, by Diana Athill. A memoir of publishing in Britain across 50 years. Charming, levelheaded, and tack-sharp, with wonderful insight. I tore right through it and hope to read more of her books.
- Poetry by Joy Harjo. I'll be co-leading a discussion about her most recent book in Chautauqua in August (!!!!!!!), so I'm taking the opportunity to read more of her work.
- The Elemental Logic series by Laurie J. Marks. I reviewed the fourth and final book for Locus, but that entailed reading the first three, and I'm so glad I did. No fooling: these are some of the most complex, absorbing, extraordinary novels I've ever read.
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Upcoming:
- "After Gardens," of course. One little dollar!
- Yet more bitchery about John Williams's Stoner.
- I may have placed a finished interview I've been pitching for almost four months. If so, it'll be featured in July.
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Recently on the Fictator:
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