Felix: A Series of New Writing October 13, 2003. 4:30 p.m. Department of Special Collections Memorial Library ~ UW Madison. Felix: A Series of New Writing brings focus to the world of small publishing, and particularly independent or “little” literary magazines. The new series is devoted to providing a venue for new literary works by young writers. The debut event…
I really have to get a new template.
There was a weird floaty spot in the middle of my screen and I thought I’d been staring at it too long. Then I realized that the sun was hitting the back of my laptop in just such a way that it was passing through the translucent Apple logo on the front, producing a faint reversed-apple glow in the middle…
Although I guess I’m a South Sider now so I’m supposed to be a Sox fan. Which is exactly why they’re blowing it.
Those damn Cubs are doing this late-September-contending thing just to torment me. Aren’t they. Welcome home, kiddo. We’re about to win our first pennant in 58 years…oops…just kidding.
Yes, but: “Miz-ur-ee” or “Miz-ur-uh”? Peter Jennings says the latter. But he’s Canadian.
Please, please, please do not pronounce the final s in “Illinois.” Lincoln rotates slowly in his grave.
My fellow Illinoisans: Catch Kent Johnson live tomorrow night in Bloomington! [Wish I could go…but two hours away…so tired…must write cover letters…] Washington St. Studio Readings and Gallery 305 Art Openings All events take place at Brian Collier Studio / Gallery 305 Washington Square East Building ***Corner of McLean and Washington*** (entrance on McLean) Bloomington, IL 61701 *** Friday, September…
I am so out of it I don’t even know who most of the people on this week’s crush list are.
Anybody read that Dave Eggers story in the New Yorker? I have no idea which issue it was, since we got a whole bunch of them forwarded in a single lump. It’s typical Eggers fare–young male protagonist who’s really just the blank numb reactor to an emotional trauma (in this case, attempted suicide) displaced onto someone else. The end of…