Goucher College II

Post-Sandy, The Greatest Show's Goucher College appearance is rescheduled for Election Day, Nov. 6.

Vote, and then swing by Van Meter Hall, room 101, at 1:30 p.m.

Captured on film at the Mark Twain House

On that July 6 evening in Hartford, the 68th anniversary of the circus fire, when I read from The Greatest Show at the Mark Twain House, a local public affairs network was there to film. The Connecticut Network has made the video available. If you weren't there and you'd care to watch, you can by clicking here.

Stylin'

Mr. Boh, mayor of the Land of Pleasant Living

The book blog of Baltimore's Style magazine -- Baltimore Book Talk -- offers this new review of The Greatest Show. Thanks Celeste Sollod! If we ever meet, I'll buy you a Natty Boh.

$@###%!**!

One of my favorite book blogs, The Quivering Pen, has published a mini-essay I wrote about the challenge I sometimes face–to cry or to curse–when I give public readings from my work. Here's an excerpt:


 Put me in front of a group of interested listeners, and ask me to read from something that has been part of my life for so long­­­–over which I’ve worried/exulted/banged my head–and my throat will tighten.  My eyes will burn and sometimes tear.  I’ll swallow hard, as if to keep down a “Holy Sh-t.” 


I promise, the whole essay is rated G. I'd let my goddaughter read it, if she could read.

And you, reader, might want to check out more of The Quivering Pen. David Abrams, whose forthcoming Iraq war novel, Fobbit, has been called an "instant classic" by Publishers Weekly, offers several gems a week about books new and old. Here's two of my favorites, in which David remembers two of his (and mine, and probably several other people's) favorite writers: Lewis "Buddy" Nordan and Flannery O'Connor.


Bonus tidbit: David lives in Butte, America, hometown of Evel Knievel, and he makes the best shrimp and grits in Montana.

Foreword!

Foreword Reviews magazine just made my day.