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Jul. 3rd, 2004 03:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Well, hey!
They've just picked my book for the July book club at Big Fat Blog. Click the book club links to find it. Lots of interesting conversations about fat going on there, including, if you scroll down a bit on the home page, extensive discussion of the article on fat and class that I linked to here a few days ago.
And someone who's joining the book club has read my other books, and says that Belly Songs, my first -- a diy chapbook of poetry and short fiction -- was the first exposure she ever had to critical writing about fat. She's seen me read, and says quite sweet things about that, too.
They've just picked my book for the July book club at Big Fat Blog. Click the book club links to find it. Lots of interesting conversations about fat going on there, including, if you scroll down a bit on the home page, extensive discussion of the article on fat and class that I linked to here a few days ago.
And someone who's joining the book club has read my other books, and says that Belly Songs, my first -- a diy chapbook of poetry and short fiction -- was the first exposure she ever had to critical writing about fat. She's seen me read, and says quite sweet things about that, too.
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Date: 2004-07-03 08:45 pm (UTC)I adore your books, and cannot wait to read Venus. Are you doing any readings in Massachusetts? I remember buying Belly Songs at Lunaria back in '94. I read it when I was working at Thorne's (there used to be a fabric store there) and I was just blown away. That was where my journey began. I am going to get it out and read it again ;^) as these are tough times, no?
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Date: 2004-07-03 10:18 pm (UTC)I'd love to get to Boston for a reading -- used to live there in the mid-eighties and still have a few old friends there, but so far, nothing's set up. And I've been travelling a lot. Did read at Pride&Joy in Northampton in May...
Hope you like the new book. If you're and the book club have questions when you're done discussing (I think it's *much* more fun to talk about a book if the author's not hanging around) -- send them along to me -- su2anliz at hotmail.com, and I'll have a book club day in the lj (or in Big Fat Blog, if that's better) and answer them. (That goes for your book club, too,
I'm adding you. I've also just learned that you're the only person on lj who lists me as an interest! I don't think I can quite stand to put my own name in my interest list, but I'm sorely tempted to, just to keep you company. And if the icon is Zella, she has an amazing smile.
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Date: 2004-07-03 10:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-03 10:56 pm (UTC)Maybe you can read at New Words? they closed the store front (grrr!) but still have a lot of events. Is there still a feminist bookstore in NoHo? last I checked (4 years ago) there was 3rd Wave on I think Green St. (?)
Yes, that is Zella - she doesa have a cute smile which is lucky for her because she gets into an amazing amount of trouble.
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Date: 2004-07-03 11:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-04 12:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-04 12:35 pm (UTC)I remember the group from Valley Women's Voice at the Lunaria reading for Fat Girl Dances With Rocks, and the interview -- with Carmen Collins, I think -- and review in the paper. That book store was practically like my living room, I read there so often, usually with my writers group, so there was always a crowd. That particular reading, my publisher sent flowers and paid for a cake with the book cover on icing on the top, and old friends came all the way from Colorado to hear it, the room was packed, and it was my first novel --I was so excited. You're making me nostalgic, although there are new excitements now. Since those old bookstores (Third Wave, too), radio shows, and papers are all gone -- even the Lesbian Calendar, bless Uncle Pam's patient heart -- I don't know how to reach many of those folks even to let them know that there's a new book out.
Third Wave is long gone, but I might read at Food for Thought in Amherst. Or maybe Broadside. At this point, I'm not sure -- it's better to leave folks wanting more than saturate your home town with readings... Yeah, New Words would be fun, maybe that'll happen.
Added ya!
Date: 2004-07-04 05:59 pm (UTC)aka Richard K. Stimson,
Co-Director
Largesse,The Network For Size Esteem
http://www.largesse.net/
My wife,Karen,and i heard you read from
Fat Woman Dances With Rocks
at a Women's Bookstore in New Haven,Connecticut.
my journal mostly helps to feed my quiz addiction . . . lol
Karen sent me your journal link.
Add me back if you like . . .
Re: Added ya!
Date: 2004-07-04 07:58 pm (UTC)hello
Date: 2004-07-06 10:15 am (UTC)I too will join the discussion on big fat blog but need to sign up with a new name, I always lose my names and passwords.
Re: hello
Date: 2004-07-06 11:45 am (UTC)After the discussion with Michele above about some of my hard to find books, I checked and saw that the NAAFA book service (http://www.naafa.org/Html_web_store/html_web_store.cgi?page=humor_inspiration.html&cart_id=431154.24668) has both the out-of-print Fat Girl Dances with Rocks, and the very hard to find Belly Songs for sale under "Humor and Inspiration," of all the kind of odd places, so if you're interested in those books, that's a good place to get them. Thanks for saying hi.
Re: hello
Date: 2004-07-06 11:48 am (UTC)