This weekend was the orientation for those of us who will be ambassadors at this year’s San Francisco Writers Conference. Here are the details:February 18-20 at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel.
Smart Girls II: The Ambition Game, a Thursday panel at AWP 2010, included “Thirteen Short Meditations on the Word Smart,” read by Karen McElmurray, author of Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven.
So, as always, I admire Steve Almond, but this time it is for getting his shit together enough upon his return back from AWP to actually write something for The Rumpus about it. He’s so not kidding about brain dead.