On Monday night at 826LA, J. Ryan Stradal and McSweeney’s organized a reading to celebrate Lucy Corin’s One Hundred Apocalypses and Victoria Chang’s The Boss. Those two books are now on my to-read list. Although that to-read list gets longer each day. Isaac and Jordan from McSweeney’s were in town from San Francisco and later a group of us went out for drinks in Silver Lake.
This week I made a trip to San Francisco. I drove up Interstate-5, which I don’t think I’ve done for half a decade. I used to make that drive at least once a month. I used to love that drive. The drive reminds me of who I once was. I tried not to think about it too much but it didn’t matter, really. I could feel my body remembering.
Since I’m traveling, this week’s column will be brief. This week I enjoyed entries from the comics section:
Anne Emond’s The Double
Horn Reviews: Southern Cross The Dog
Paul Madonna’s What I Tell Myself
Also, I still think about the coyote in this Yumi comic.
Brian Spears’ Letter in the Mail goes out very soon. Did you know you can get letters in the mail from writers? I’m getting responses from my letter that went out not too long ago and it’s great. You should probably subscribe to this. There’s no reason why you wouldn’t like it, I don’t think.
