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janstinchcomb:

We still haven’t received our copy of The Scamp. All the cool kids are reading it. Do I have to surf down there and rough you up?

When I went to the post office I had the wrong signed copy. Will send priority mañana!

thedeepseacreations:

Bobtail Squid

They wait for us in the deep.

thedeepseacreations:

Bobtail Squid

They wait for us in the deep.

thedeepseacreations:

Bobtail Squid

They wait for us in the deep.

thedeepseacreations:

Bobtail Squid

They wait for us in the deep.

thedeepseacreations:

Bobtail Squid

They wait for us in the deep.

thedeepseacreations:

Bobtail Squid

They wait for us in the deep.

thedeepseacreations:

Bobtail Squid

They wait for us in the deep.

thedeepseacreations:

Bobtail Squid

They wait for us in the deep.

thedeepseacreations:

Bobtail Squid

They wait for us in the deep.

The Stranger Wife

Books,

I had the pleasure of reviewing Vu Tran’s debut novel Dragonfish for The Life Sentence. An excerpt: 

The novel opens with Oakland police officer Robert Ruen, who is having a crisis of faith. He can’t get over being abandoned by his wife, Suzy, a Vietnamese immigrant haunted by her past. Robert knows he should move on with his life but he can’t let go of his marriage: “at the pit of me was not sadness or anger but the hollowness of forgetting how to need someone.” His feeling of having failed Suzy as a husband is exacerbated by the knowledge that he never really knew her, that there was a part of her personality that he could never reach, and when she retreated to that place she was utterly unknowable. Is Suzy a difficult person? Is she mentally ill? Or is there something more mysterious troubling her that’s harder to define?

Read the rest of the review. 

It’s high time we drank wine with long drowned sailors / in the water-tavern on the bottom of the sea, in a ship’s cabin, / and heard them tell of pirates, albatrosses, and loves that have gone on / for longer than a thousand years and still have not grown calm.

Abraham Sutzkever (translated from the Yiddish by Maia Evrona)

TFL #61

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This installment of The Floating Library is part book review essay about an illustrated children’s book called What Is Punk? by Eric Morse and Anny Yi and part personal essay about my daughter’s indifference to the music I love. An excerpt:

…Do I really want my daughter to love punk rock? After all, punk rock and substance abuse go hand-in-hand. You could say that about any kind of music scene but I don’t think my friends who listen to country (oh wait I don’t have any friends who listen to country) or other genres have been to as many funerals as I have. I really don’t want my daughter dropping f-bombs and calling me a fascist when I tell her to make her bed.

Read the rest oft he excerpt here. 

janstinchcomb:

Friday night marked 11 years of Vermin on the Mount with Patrick O’Neil, Wendy C. Ortiz, Shanna Mahin, Joshua Mohr, Sean H. Doyle, and Jennifer Pashley. An evening of joy, grit, and courage.

Thanks to Jim Vermin (Ruland) for organizing this series and Book Show LA for hosting! 

Thanks, Jan. It was great meeting you!

janstinchcomb:

Friday night marked 11 years of Vermin on the Mount with Patrick O’Neil, Wendy C. Ortiz, Shanna Mahin, Joshua Mohr, Sean H. Doyle, and Jennifer Pashley. An evening of joy, grit, and courage.

Thanks to Jim Vermin (Ruland) for organizing this series and Book Show LA for hosting! 

Thanks, Jan. It was great meeting you!

janstinchcomb:

Friday night marked 11 years of Vermin on the Mount with Patrick O’Neil, Wendy C. Ortiz, Shanna Mahin, Joshua Mohr, Sean H. Doyle, and Jennifer Pashley. An evening of joy, grit, and courage.

Thanks to Jim Vermin (Ruland) for organizing this series and Book Show LA for hosting! 

Thanks, Jan. It was great meeting you!

janstinchcomb:

Friday night marked 11 years of Vermin on the Mount with Patrick O’Neil, Wendy C. Ortiz, Shanna Mahin, Joshua Mohr, Sean H. Doyle, and Jennifer Pashley. An evening of joy, grit, and courage.

Thanks to Jim Vermin (Ruland) for organizing this series and Book Show LA for hosting! 

Thanks, Jan. It was great meeting you!

janstinchcomb:

Friday night marked 11 years of Vermin on the Mount with Patrick O’Neil, Wendy C. Ortiz, Shanna Mahin, Joshua Mohr, Sean H. Doyle, and Jennifer Pashley. An evening of joy, grit, and courage.

Thanks to Jim Vermin (Ruland) for organizing this series and Book Show LA for hosting! 

Thanks, Jan. It was great meeting you!

janstinchcomb:

Friday night marked 11 years of Vermin on the Mount with Patrick O’Neil, Wendy C. Ortiz, Shanna Mahin, Joshua Mohr, Sean H. Doyle, and Jennifer Pashley. An evening of joy, grit, and courage.

Thanks to Jim Vermin (Ruland) for organizing this series and Book Show LA for hosting! 

Thanks, Jan. It was great meeting you!