Lutz

Saw Gary Lutz read last night. Heard Gary Lutz read last night. That thing about petalled words. Fantastic. At least two domes (convex). Lots of stalls, or stalling. Everyone talks about his sentences, but the stories themselves are really something else, in the best way (couldn't help it). A very nice person from Pennsylvania, just like my husband, but not actually like my husband (who had Halloween dreams last night...a party in the park near the creek, with torches, and sofas all over the grass). With him was Deb Olin Unferth, whose first book of stories comes out in July from McSweeney's. I'm ready! Now, they both teach in Lawrence, Kansas. Laurence? The only thing I know about that place is that fellow-Visalian Matt Suggs went there for school. Right?

Lately...

Books I've been reading or re-reading or reading around in lately: Pamela: a novel by Pamela Lu Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar An Alphabet for Gourmets by M.F.K. Fisher Incubation: A Space for Monsters by Bhanu Kapil To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (one of the best books in the English language, PERIOD)

Music I've been listening to lately: Feist and Andrew Bird (thanks to Steve), Holopaw (thanks to Rowland), The Sea and Cake and Dntel (thanks to Mark, years ago), Iron & Wine (thanks to Karla...or was it Ethan?), Cat Power (thanks to Karla, fo sho), Stan Getz Bossa Nova (thanks to...Mom?), pretty violin music (thanks to my neighbor across the street)

What I've been watching: too much TV because I'm stressed out (I'm even Netflixing [a verb!?] old TV shows because I can't get enough TV on TV)