Hey you guys, readers both willful or inadvertent, I've left this form unfilled out for many months, owing to the fact that there has been little to say. But it's probably worth mentioning for those who follow such things that I will have a new book out in May of 2007, three novellas, entitled RIGHT LIVELIHOODS (Little, Brown & Co). The title does contain a pun. The stories included are two-thirds already published: "The Albertine Notes," from McSWEENEY's, "The Omega Force," from THE PARIS REVIEW, and "K&K," which will likely be forthcoming at some point. They all have to do with what Nabokov (in "Signs and Symbols") referred to as "referential mania," or the desire to impute meaning to things that don't necessarily deserve the effort. In the context of RIGHT LIVELIHOODS, this has a lot to do with living in the years after 9/11, though that tragic turn of events is only glancingly alluded to. Otherwise, I have been inching along on my new novel, writing a few short pieces (liner notes for a new Sufjan Stevens recording, an essay on "celestial music," two short stories that appeared this month in, respectively, BEST LIFE and PORTLAND magazines, etc.), and, lately, hanging out with my nieces and nephews. My oldest nephew is about to go to college, at Bard, and I'm really proud of him and excited to hear how the adventure of a liberal arts education turns out for him. In the Northeast, today is the beginning of the heat wave that the center of the country has suffered with for a while, and I am not looking forward to it. I will write more here in the fall, when I have made enough progress on the new novel to feel good about myself. Meanwhile, have a good summer and wear sunblock with SPF 15 or higher.
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