How was that for a long blogging hiatus? But summer gets short, and I had some sort of epiphany that blogging less would mean more of other kinds of writing. It didn’t turn out to be particularly true, I learned, but coming back to $3.60 was just the tiny low-pressure carrot I needed to get some really annoying work done. Book proposals out to eight presses (who each of course wanted a different package), an article out, and a conference and writers series in the works, developing fellowship programs for the cinema, and countless query letters and so on: Yay August! Phew– I’m glad you’re almost over. (Never thought I’d say that!)
And anyway, there are gazillions of old, retiring posts on $3.60, in favorite categories like world-making, feral women, and the global uncanny. Who needs me?
In other news, this week has also seen, sadly, lots of back to school shopping. Oh, who am I fooling? Back to school shopping makes school so much better! Read the rest of this entry »
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