.jpg)
I keep forgetting the things I keep forgetting, which is probably something I should be concerned about, if only I could remember. At any rate, I've slowly but surely been cobbling together a few new items here on ye olde blog (though, it should be noted, I haven't really been cobbling together that many actual blog posts, likely because I tend to do a lot of my heavy conversational lifting on Twitter and Facebook these days, so feel free to friend me, follow me, stalk me, and send me hate mail in those places, too). I'd like to, therefore, draw your attention to the following items over on my sidebar that you may find entertaining:
1. New and exciting audio from a recent reading I did at the Hammer for the Rattling Wall , a reading I did in New York last year for The Nervous Breakdown reading series, a reading I did about 8 million years ago of my short story "This Is What You Left Behind" at UCLA, and the excellent Andrew McCarthy reading my story "Simplify", also from about 8 million years ago.
2. New and exciting soul baring essays...or as soul baring as one can get in the Wall Street Journal. Also, since I tend to get a bunch of emails about this one when people stumble on it, there's a link to an essay I wrote in Las Vegas CityLife when The Wire concluded, where I called it the Great American Novel. People write me a lot to tell me it was a TV show and that I'm a fucking idiot. Which is nice.
3. An absolute shit-load of interviews. So, if you're looking for one about MFA programs, I recommend this one. If you're looking for one about the stories in Other Resort Cities for your term papers, I recommend this one. If you're looking for one where I, uhm, answer a question about, uh, what Buddha would make of my writing, then, by all means, read this one. And here's a pretty extensive one about Burn Notice.
Comments