My thesis defense will be at 2 PM on Thursday, May 6 at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. I believe it will be in Wheatley Hall room 6-047 (on the sixth floor) --- it's open to the public, so come on by. It should take around an hour, and you will get to hear me read from my fiction and maybe from my essay. I'll take questions. They will ( Read more... )

The Central Square Theater (that weird new building next to Mary's with the hideous sculpture) is apparently putting on a play about Harriet Jacobs called, creatively, Harriet Jacobs. Anyone want to go? I can do any of the 21-31 days. I have no idea how the play is, but her book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is fucking brilliant and is old ( Read more... )