Delany, Walker Art Center, Saturday
For Twin Cities folks, Rain Taxi is sponsoring a reading by Samuel Delany tomorrow at 2 pm at Walker Art Center. Don’t miss it–you might want to get there a little early.
Fri, November 14 2008 » Fiction, Minnesota » 1 Comment
Just in case you don’t know
or are living under a rock in the Twin Cities–Dave Schwartz is reading tonight from his new novel, Superpowers at 7pm at Dreamhaven. The book is released–go forth and attend/purchase!
Thu, June 12 2008 » Minnesota, Uncategorized » No Comments
book sale
To those readers in the Twin Cities, the Animal Humane Society is holding a giant book sale in both their Golden Valley and Woodbury locations. Go forth!
Fri, February 8 2008 » Minnesota » No Comments
bridge collapse
Just in case anyone is worried, Kristin and I are ok. Can see one end of it from my office window. Just gut wrenching.
Wed, August 1 2007 » Minnesota » 8 Comments
Wed, March 14 2007 » Minnesota » 2 Comments
Heart MPLS library
Yet another reason to love my second office, er, the Minneapolis Central Public library: A Frankenstein exhibit.
Thu, August 24 2006 » Minnesota » No Comments
Radio Tomorrow
I’ll be on the radio, KFAI, tomorrow around 11:30ish-noonish. That’s 90.3 Minneapolis and 106.7 St. Paul for those in town, OR you can listen online here. I’ll be reading an excerpt from one of my stories and talking about the book. Also, a friendly reminder–I’m reading at Dreamhaven at 6:30 on this upcoming Tuesday!
Wed, August 23 2006 » Minnesota, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead » No Comments
Inspired Choice
Leaving aside the quality of American Vertigo itself, having Garrison Keillor review Bernard-Henri Levy is like having a complete tool review a French philosopher.
Thu, July 20 2006 » Minnesota, Polis » 2 Comments
random notes
1. It’s way too warm today. I love it. Upper 30s should not be “way too warm” but you take what you can get up here. Tomorrow: 41! 2. Had to pull glass out of the puppy’s mouth over the weekend. He also likes tossing the cat toys up in the air with his mouth [...]
Wed, January 25 2006 » Life Studies, Minnesota » 3 Comments
Rain Taxi Auction
Rain Taxi is having an eBay charity auction for their 10 anniversary. Lots of cool advanced reading copies, limited editions, rarities, etc. Check it out here and spread the word for a great magazine.
Mon, December 5 2005 » Fiction, Minnesota, Poetry » No Comments
Garrison Keillor is a THRONE OF LIES!
Garrison Keillor is not a “great guy”. Which means that he’s quintessentially “Minnesota Nice.” The smugness of his god-awful radio show is really only a symptom of a deep paranoia about what the Upper Midwest ought to be; that is to say, as non-offensive as possible. This is why the NPR-ization of literature–particularly poetry here–is [...]
Thu, September 15 2005 » Minnesota, Poetry » 5 Comments
PRAIRIE PIRATE SPHERES
I take the neck from the loon, breaking it, and then we depart for the lamb’s cholera moon. In my under-things, we row above the midnight state of ambiguous folk scenes. We watch the canoes stop at the falls to sell their podium glues. Through moose ether tolls peace’s stud fee. Nothing is dangerous here. [...]
Tue, May 17 2005 » Minnesota, Poetry » 2 Comments
It’s 80 degrees outside. It won’t last long. I’m thinking about moving this blog to the taverners-koans.com server and perhaps using WordPress. (1) Blogger server touch-and-go-ness, (2) categories for my nearly completely scattegorical posts, (3) it would be free b/c I already have more than enough server space than I can shake a stick at, [...]
Mon, April 18 2005 » Minnesota » 2 Comments
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Mon, January 10 2005 » Minnesota » No Comments
Also, I’m too emotionally scarred to talk about the Timberwolves’ loss. Sigh. But onto the Lakers and Pistons! And I actually think the Pistons have a shot. Not a great shot, but a shot. Detroit has a knack for making teams play down to their level. They sludge. Their offense is a quagmire, but Los [...]
Wed, June 2 2004 » Minnesota » 1 Comment
The Stevens Square Center for the Arts (SSCA) is planning to host a zinefair and exhibition later this summer, with an opening night party onFriday, July 24, followed by tabling, zine trading, readings and live musicon Saturday, July 25. The exhibit would be on display at the SSCA for fourweeks, closing in mid-August. The SSCA [...]
Fri, May 14 2004 » Minnesota » No Comments
A hometown shoutout to XCP’s Streetnotes project. Can another poet/poetaster in the Twin Cities please start a blog? Anyone? Unfortunately, the Dinghy seems dead. You just couldn’t go wrong with the blog that regularly had Vin Deisel cameoing (“Vin Diesel has suggested to me that any person who instructs his beloved pet to behave in [...]
Thu, March 18 2004 » Minnesota, Poetry » No Comments
I have really mixed feelings about Ruminator Books, a local “institution” of an independent bookstore (they have, incidentally, withdrawn their public stock offering). On one hand, there have been some great booksellers there–who are actively interested, e.g., in zines and little magazines, and have tried to actively promote good books and magazines and a healthy [...]
Fri, March 5 2004 » Minnesota » No Comments
Open Letter to non-Minnesotan world Please don’t come here. It’s nothing personal, but I don’t think you’d like it. This morning when I was trying to start my car it was twenty below–and that’s not with the windchill, which is minus 43 below. I had a large block of snow-slush-compressed to ice right on the [...]
Fri, January 30 2004 » Minnesota » No Comments
