2 posts tagged “literature”
I was very happy this evening to learn that my good friend Pete Miller was interviewed on Seattle's NPR station. He runs a great Seattle organization called LOCCAL (League of Citizens Concerned About Literature) and one of their first projects was to put up poetry mini-posters about hygiene all over Seattle. I wrote a poem for one--it was fun, and wound up on one of the posters...and, in one of the coolest bathrooms in Seattle (Ali Baba's), no less.
So, today, Pete was interviewed on the radio, and, naturally, it was really interesting and enjoyable. Here's the NPR link, where you can listen to the whole thing: http://www.kuow.org/defaultProgram.asp?ID=13950
Or, you can listen to his interview here, in two parts--he is literally cut off mid-word, but still...
Pete's doing great work up there, and it's really cool to hear him talk about it.
My favorite writer has a new novel out, and I just picked it up...for some reason, I thought it was coming out in November, so it was a real happy surprise to stumble upon it. This is his first "proper" novel in ten years (not counting the wonderful and under-appreciated novella, The Name of the World, of course), so my excitement level is particularly high. If you've never read anything by Johnson, you can really pick up any of them and get one of the best books you've ever read.
