Where the Land Meets the Water: Louisiana / Iowa / New Record News
As you read this, if you read this, in a timely fashion (sometime today), I’ll be driving south towards home. But not just Louisiana: New Orleans—that other beautifully obstreperous ‘nother-country that lies within the state lines. As you read this I’ll be driving and probably listening to my new record, not because I derive any […]
It’s a beautiful day for a minor medical procedure
so just wish me luck. Rather than fulfill the stereotype of “adults” discussing their various bodily ailments and complaints in excruciating detail, let’s just say the biggest thing I have to face today (far as I know) is my own claustrophobic nature, and the MRI tube. Showtime, 2:30pm CST. So I’m armed with one prescribed 10mg […]
Laying Low in Martin, Tennessee / Sponsorship Update
although I did make it down to the campus yesterday just in time to lead my “workshop” (yes, I have mixed feelings about that word)–which consisted of my revisiting the Dylan Songs as Nobel Literature debate, though this time I came armed with the last paragraph of Bob’s acceptance speech (“Nobel Lecture”), in which he […]
Sponsor the New Release NOW!/KG at 5 Spot, Southern Literary Festival
Happy Friday, everyone, This morning I’ve immersed myself in the relative solitude and total squalor that is my little man-cave at the back of the house–a room built onto the main structure some decades ago, long before we got here. Sunporch? Mudroom? Whatever its original purpose, (in addition to still being a mudroom; dang, just […]