Ann Leary, author of The Good House
Author of The Good House
I’ve had a few requests for Holly updates, so here she is:
I know. I know.
She wants very much the be like the big girls. Here she is sniffing around the ground for a scent with Daphne:
And they’re off! After who knows what. SO cute.
I know that many of you are going to be reading Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca with us, but I’m very interested in what else you all might be reading, or recent books you’d like to recommend.
“I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”
Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII
 Photo by Moses Pendleton (and a sexy poem to go with it) I CRAVE YOUR MOUTH, YOUR VOICE, YOUR HAIR by Pablo Neruda DON’T GO FAR OFF, NOT EVEN FOR A DAY Don’t leave me, even for an hour, because Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach; because in that moment you’ll have gone so far |
Tonight we will be having our much anticipated live chat with author Dan Chaon about his bestselling novel, Await Your Reply. As many of you know, in addition to wonderful reviews, Await Your Reply has been listed as one of the best books of 2009, in the Washington Post, The New York Times, Salon, the Chicago Tribune and many others, and we are very excited to have him here tonight.
The chat will take place right here on the blog, at 8:00 eastern time, and the first 1/2 hour will be questions that have been submitted by you readers and presented to Mr. Chaon, by me. Then, at 8:30, the chat room will be open to everyone, so that you will be able to “chat” with him yourselves.
I found this great video of a Momix show on YouTube. I remember Moses told me once that he doesn’t like seeing Momix on YouTube because the quality is usually so poor, but I thought this was quite nice, so I hope he doesn’t mind if I post it.
I hope everybody has had a chance to finish Await Your Reply, so you’ll be able to participate in next Tuesday’s live chat with author Dan Chaon.
After our experimental chat with Denis, we have decided to try to do things a little differently. The first half-hour (8-8:30, eastern time) of next week’s chat will be a closed Q&A in which I will ask Mr. Chaon question that you will submit to me beforehand. He will still be answering live, but it will be less chaotic than trying to have everybody ask at once. Then, at 8:30, I will open it up to a live chat and everybody can chat with Dan Chaon. Denis actually thought the open live chat was fun and we want to keep that element, but also let people with more serious thoughts and questions a chance to communicate with the author.
As some of you might recall, I have been invited to be a part of an exciting art exhibit called Ekphrasis which will open at the Lift Trucks Project in Croton Falls, NY, on January 30th.
If you click on the link above you will see a description of the event as well as the works of art that will be part of the exhibit. We writers will be reading short compositions which were inspired by the artwork.
I chose this beautifully evocative drawing by Gerard Haggerty, called “Ascension #9.”
Remember how I was rhapsodizing about what a glorious dog Lulu is? How beautiful she is, how devoted? How vast her capacity for love?
Well, yesterday she brought us this:
You can’t tell what it is? Well, that’s a dainty hoof on the end. Yes, It’s a deer leg. Lulu had thought it would be nice to bring it in and gnaw on it next to the fire. Like a cave dog. I admit, we’re a rather primitive group, we Learys. We often do away with proper table manners in order to hasten the speed in which our food reaches our gullets, and one of us makes grunting noises while we eat, but we’re not cavemen.
