Close Calls With Nonsense

Chris Lydon at Open Source Radio interviewed me last week and the results are up: he’s a Real Radio Person– and a reader, too. It was a pleasure. Check out his conversations with Helen Vendler and Rosanna Warren, too.

Before it was a completely absorbing, charming, memorable, entirely recommended graphic novel, Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmonds was a newspaper comic strip.

I’m still speaking with Donald Revell, and he’s speaking with me, at UNLV this Thursday at 7:30pm. I see from the website (scroll down for the event info) that Chris Arigo, whom I met at Colorado State University ten years ago, is now a fellow in poetry-writing there. Cool!

If you’re not already an admirer of Stephen Fry, you will be when you read this letter he wrote to a stranger who needed these words.