Sizzle at Litquake:
The lovely and notorious model, Madison Young and me. She will be hosting Sizzle, an event I'm doing with Daphne Gottlieb and other great authors at Litquake. October 11 at Intersection for the Arts, 6pm. We will kick off Litcrawl, a literary pub crawl through the Mission.
My Foster Babies:
Film option:
The sublime director Shirley Petchprapa (of Issara Films) has optioned the rights to my short story, PRELUDES! Read the story in PDF
here
Mattilda Launches So Many Ways to Sleep Badly at City Lights:
Upcoming Novel:
I have FINISHED my new novel. As of 9/15/2008, it is in the hands of six New York agents. Last time it took 70 rejections. I'm hoping for a few less this time.
SYNOPSIS:
A Partial History of My Delusions is a story about idealism and ambition. A young soldier, dancer, and activist-turned-gangster meet during the 1999 NATO attacks on Serbia. They flee the war and arrive in Manhattan. As bonds develop between the three youth, they each struggle with their delusions about themselves and the world.
On this page are photos I found while doing research about the former Yugoslavia. Pictures of Kosovo, the first all-woman crew of airforce pilots, a Serb father, Serb artists, Belgrade kids, the day revolution came to Belgrade.
How can anyone unable to relate to the person he loves expect to relate to those he does not love? Kafka realized this, and to stand by the side of the woman he loved meant standing by the side of the people, becoming one of
them, participating in their order. He also realized what most of us are concealing from ourselves: that drawing close to another being, accepting another being as well as another order means the surrender of freedom.
— from Love and Garbage , Ivan Klima
I felt that I was living the wrong life,
spiritually speaking,
while halfway around the world
thousands of people were being slaughtered,
some of them by my countrymen.
So I walked on—distracted, lost in thought—
and forgot to attend to those who suffered
far away, nearby.
Forgive me, faith, for never having any.
from A Partial History of My Stupidity, Edward Hirsch
HISTORY IS AN ARGUMENT WITHOUT END.
-Pieter Geyl, danish historian 1887-1966
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