Tree of Life totally sucked, by the way.

Here's the official announcement: my manuscript has won the Elixir Press Editor's Prize, and is currently scheduled for publication in 2013.

Hooray!

Ah-ha, my practice of following the Boston.com real estate pages as research for Writing Project A has finally paid off!

My review of Valzhyna Mort's Collected Body is up today at The Rumpus.

Crisis averted. In Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski's adaptation of Cloud Atlas, Somni-451 will not be played by Natalie Portman, as had been rumored, but by Bae Doona of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and The Host. Can she do it?

I'll be giving a reading for New England Review's Vermont Writers Series on January 19th, 2012, at Carol's Hungry Mind Cafe in Middlebury, Vermont. Also reading will be Neil Shepard, Daniel Lusk, and Stephen Kiernan.

I saw a lot of movies on my birthday, two I've seen before, but which mean so much to me, reminding me how to live: Synecdoche and The Passion of Joan of Arc. And also Malick's Days of Heaven. We also rewatched Ink, which I continue to love, and The Muppet Movie, which I'll talk about first.
( The Muppet Movie, Days of Heaven, The Passion of Joan of Arc )

Or something similar, like Google Hangouts--Anyone try it? How was it?

Friday Night is such a perceptive, affecting little movie. There's no reason why it shouldn't just be kind of moody and aimless, but it quickly establishes itself as winning and emotionally rich, even though half the film takes place in a traffic jam.. It has to be the way Denis captures the brief, flickering inward moments on the faces of her ( Read more... )

A bad couple of days. This video is the only thing that's helped. Via The Awl.

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