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susanstinsonMy old friend Sarah Van Arsdale is giving a book-launching reading for her second novel, BLUE on Thursday, October 16 at 7 at the
Housing Works, Bookstore and Cafe at 126 Crosby Street in New York City.
This is really exciting. I was in a writers group with Sarah for years and years in Northampton, and now she's won this thing called the Peter Taylor Prize, and the book's going to be published by the University of Tennessee Press. Her first novel, Toward Amnesia, is really fabulous, too. Sarah once wrote a poem (and not a short one) looked at it in the mirror, and found that it was interesting whether you read it backwards or forewards, so the poem became both versions together. The thing I love about this is that she bothered to look at it in the mirror, and to recognize what she saw. There's nothing like a radical shift of perspective to free things up.
This post represents the first time I've entered a link to something, like the Housing Works Bookstore/Cafe -- which, by the way, evidently donates its profits towards housing for homeless people living with HIV and AIDS -- hidden under its name, and it seems to be working. Yayy, new skills. I'm going to New York City for Sarah's reading, which is also the day before my birthday, and one of my tasks today is to come up with a relatively inexpensive place to stay in the city...
Housing Works, Bookstore and Cafe at 126 Crosby Street in New York City.
This is really exciting. I was in a writers group with Sarah for years and years in Northampton, and now she's won this thing called the Peter Taylor Prize, and the book's going to be published by the University of Tennessee Press. Her first novel, Toward Amnesia, is really fabulous, too. Sarah once wrote a poem (and not a short one) looked at it in the mirror, and found that it was interesting whether you read it backwards or forewards, so the poem became both versions together. The thing I love about this is that she bothered to look at it in the mirror, and to recognize what she saw. There's nothing like a radical shift of perspective to free things up.
This post represents the first time I've entered a link to something, like the Housing Works Bookstore/Cafe -- which, by the way, evidently donates its profits towards housing for homeless people living with HIV and AIDS -- hidden under its name, and it seems to be working. Yayy, new skills. I'm going to New York City for Sarah's reading, which is also the day before my birthday, and one of my tasks today is to come up with a relatively inexpensive place to stay in the city...
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Date: 2003-09-15 08:23 pm (UTC)wow!
Date: 2003-09-16 05:08 am (UTC)I tried to find The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon at the library yesterday -- they didn't have it.
Re: wow!
Date: 2003-09-16 06:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-16 04:09 pm (UTC)