Two small things that mean the fucking world to me are now true! Or said another way, I get to tick two more boxes in my life goals list as a literary (non)fiction author.
I’m in The Rumpus at last!
One, I’ve been submitting short stories and essays to The Rumpus for over a decade. I’ll continue to do so in the future as well. But one of the things about having a great publicist is that they open up doors to you that you can’t open yourself, which is part of the reason that great publicists are worth their weight in gold, and for me, that means being in a dope interview in The Rumpus about one of my books. In this case, DREAM POP ORIGAMI.
I’ll be reading at the Woodmere Library (the Main Library) in TC!
Two, I’m going back to Traverse City, Michigan later this week to give a reading at the Woodmere Library from DREAM POP ORIGAMI as a published author and Brilliant Books, the awesome local bookstore in TC, is going to be selling my memoir. This is something I’ve wanted and daydreamed about since I began my MFA back in 2007. Every time I’d looked up tickets to TC, they were way too expensive. Actually more expensive than flying from LAX to Rome. But after spending time with an old friend of mine from Traverse City in Portland, Oregon, of all places, I got the hookup. This opportunity just kinda fell onto my lap and now I’ll be able to see old friends, classmates, crushes, and ex’s for the first time in thirty years. Can you believe that shit?