Magan Wiles in San Francisco
October 2015
Reading and Signing of “Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine” on Saturday 24 October
Friends at Sophia House are hosting a book reading and signing of my recent novel, Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine. I and those present will take turns reading aloud a few of the short chapters…
Friends
On a retreat at Lake of the Ozarks, Penny Smith, Cristina Cousins, Emma Shaw, Sarah Bollinger, and Lindsay Sihilling sent me their greetings. Such fortune to know them!
Cab Yau, Looking Like the Young Juliette Binoche
Sasha’s on DeMun; Russian Novel Reading Group; Thursday 1 October 2015
The Gradual, Lifelong Construction of a State of Wonder and Serenity
On Tim Page, Glenn Gould: A Life in Pictures This is a book in celebration of what would have been GG’s 70th birthday; it’s a short book, consisting overwhelmingly of photos of the eccentric, the…
Current Reading
September 30, 2015
An Hour for Ai Weiwei
After meeting with Marty, J’Ann, and Suzanne, I offered to propose something for a gathering of old and new friends Thursday 1 October at Hartford Coffee on Hartford from 4:30-5:30. I want us to discuss…
4400 Chouteau Avenue
Walking west on Chouteau
Texting My Best Friend in Louisville
I: You attained full enlightenment yet? She: Yesterday morning.
How Much John Kerry Learned to Forget
John Kerry, Winter Soldier Hearing, 1971: The country doesn’t know it yet, but it has created a monster, a monster in the form of millions of men who have been taught to deal and to…