Saturday 5/18: Today is the last stop in UC Irvine MFA students off-campus reading tour. Fiction writers Blake Kimzey and Justin Lee, and poets Josh Cornwell and Meagan Cooney will present…
Asked by James Dickey why he got “into this,” meaning into the literary business, into poetry, Robert Penn Warren says, “bad judgment.” I suppose, one thinks about this sort of…
The next Letter for Kids, going out tomorrow, is from Kristen Kittscher! Kristen is the author of The Wig in the Window and The Tiara on the Terrace, the first two books in…
Happy Mother’s Day. And a big hug to Dawn Cave, the mother who gave us the King of The Bad Seeds. Thank you, Dawn, and thank you, Calliope. Calli-a-who? Calliope…
Today we have an interview with Emily Rapp. Here, too, for Mother’s Day, is Emily’s “This Mother’s Day, I Am No Longer a Mother.” Congrats to one of the most…
Years ago, after I graduated from UC Santa Cruz, I couldn’t write because my editor voice seemed to be in overdrive. I would start a sentence and somehow end up…
Saturday 5/11: Lit Fest Pasadena 2.0 is on! Enjoy a full day of readings, panels, performances and signings from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Pasadena’s Central Park. Also in Pasadena,…