From the monthly archives: August 2009
The Start Tribune said some very nice things about Love Is a Four-Letter Word, and I got name-checked. Why thank you, Star Tribune!
Lucky for navel-gazers everywhere, editor Michael Taeckens has compiled “Love Is a Four-Letter Word,” a collection of remembrances on the topic of heartache so chock full of callous lovers the book is sure to satisfy even the most forlorn.
Taeckens, a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, also wrote the book’s standout piece (“The Book of Love and Transformation”), a story both poignant and hilarious….
The up-and-coming writers are the ones who make this collection unforgettable. D.E. Rasso, for example, recounts a punk-rock romance at Camden College in the Doc Marten era, offering up a gritty tale of sexual debasement that is not only highly readable, but sure to both repulse and resonate. (What more can a person ask for?)….
Dave White writes the collection’s funniest story. “This Guy Who Was My Boyfriend” is a searing anatomy of a good-natured stalking from the point of view of the beleaguered stalkee. After hooking up with a man at a country bar who looks like Garth Brooks from the “fatter platinum-album years,” White finds himself with a highly determined devotee on his hands.
On YouTube, the never-released documentary (in 9 parts) about the amazing Beat Farmers.
Meth pipeline busted in Colorado:
Women were used to distribute the drugs locally through their body cavities, Suthers said.
“It’s a tawdry piece of information, but it’s a big part of what this group was doing,” he said.
The Castros allegedly laundered their drug sales through the buying and selling of comic books. Officials said $500,000 worth of classic comic books were seized.
“To launder the money, you have to have something you can use that is quick and convenient,” Suthers said. “And in this case, they used classic comic books.”
…which made the deals, the Attorney General said, probably the closest any comic book collector has ever been to the female reproductive system.
Next Tuesday, September 1, will be my next and last Love Is a Four-Letter Word reading! (Though not the last NYC reading ever, I hasten to add.) It’s at Cornelia Street Cafe, at 5:45 pm (or maybe 6, if we are to believe the website). Also reading are Emily Flake, Michelle Green, and The Maud Newton, the whole thing’s hosted by Russ Marshalek, and it should be a lot of fun.
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