If you are a friend of mine, you know that on October 15 I finished reading the advance proof of  Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving for review. I loved the novel for its characters, of course, and also for its meta-fictional qualities.

Memoirs by athletes lure readers in by promising to follow the storyline through training and emergence, heyday, downfall, and ultimate redemption.

I know it’s good to be crazy busy in this economy, particularly when a bit of all the crazy business is for actual cash money.

The New Yorker rejected the short story about Pearlie twice before Andrew Sean Greer shelved it. He wrote The Confessions of Max Tivoli before blowing the dust off Pearlie again.

The Soul Making Awards Reading was on Sunday at the San Francisco Main Library in the Koret Auditorium. The flash fiction judge, Carolyn A Clark, was not able to attend, but the creative non fiction editor, Jim LeCuyer, was there.