P.E.E.L. Reading Series

I’m going to be reading at the P.E.E.L. Reading Series next week with
Todd Colby, Samantha Topol, Filip Noterdaeme and Dawn Knopf:

Stain Bar
766 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY
Thursday, November 8
7:30 p.m.

More info on the mega-hot P.E.E.L. Flyer (no, the map’s not real)

I’ll be reading an excerpt from the new manuscript I’m working on.

New ‘puter

Behold the glory of the bitchin new laptop I’ll be getting in the mail next week:

An HP Compaq 6820s. Hot. Very hot.

Still naked, still dead

I’m still reading The Naked and the Dead, but I’m 480 pages into a 680 page book so I’ll forgive myself for it. It’s one of the best books I’ve read in years–really expansive and gorgeous and psychologically  rich. I love any novel that’s brutal, brooding, full-fleshed Americana.

Some random googling says Norman Mailer was born in Long Branch, which while technically not a part of my beloved Bayshore, is close enough to add even more to my new found Mailer fondess.

When I’m done reading, I’m  going to write Norman Mailer a rambling letter he will never get. That will be fun. I did the same thing with J.D. Salinger once.  (And I call bull shit on Salinger getting commandeered for the literary hipster pandemic.)