The Week in Bookish LA is up at LAist and my goodness, this is a great week to be living in LA. There's Maggie Nelson, Anne Enright, Colm Toibin, Amy Hempel, Russell Banks, Peter Carey, John Rechy, Charles Bock, Toby Barlow, Gayle Brandeis and so much more. You'd think it was book fair week!
I'll be making it to as many events as I can this week and hope to see you out there or back here when I provide blow-by-blow commentary on the events.
This week will also offer readers a glimpse inside my recent silence. Thank you all for your emails - I'm alive and fine and doing well. I've been taking stock, counting my wins and losses Didion-style. The net: I need - no have - to do something with my life that matters. But that also pays the mortgage! So much easier said than done and so I've been exploring, investigating, sussing out what matters to me and what doesn't. Making a lot of noise blogging all day may or may not matter to me...so I had to explore it. And other things.
I do not have the answers yet, but I'm closer than I've been for a long, long time and I needed some distance from all the things that were weighing down on me to get some clarity. More soon. You may like it and you may not. We'll have to see together.
But for now: more book blogging.
