In my lungs and through my chest, I know you're listening

[sovay]

I did not speak in tongues. I did sing one of my own songs at the end of "Chez Vous Soon," even though I am not a three-person alternative band circa 2005. I opened with "And Black Unfathomable Lakes" and added "Last Drink Bird Head" partway through the Q&A because three more people had just arrived and it seemed unfair for them not to hear any fiction. Salimata Kamara hosted and asked really good questions, as did the audience which included kenjari, skygiants, my parents, and other people who are not on Dreamwidth. I got asked about mythology, music, how my stories come together, whether I have ever been surprised by a character. spatch took a picture. I appear to have Fred the white hole in my hair.



I was not quite running on no sleep since Monday, having managed to pass out for an hour around noon, but I don't think my body believed it. I had a storm-coming headache while reading about a character with one. I had a wonderful time all the same. We had dun dun noodles with my father at Mary Chung's beforehand and ice cream with my mother at Toscanini's afterward and none of us made it out of the bookstore without taking a few new books with us. The temperature appears to be slowly contracting to something that isn't like living inside a bath towel. It is my fervent hope that once the performance adrenaline finishes burning itself out of my system, I will actually collapse.

I think I really like doing readings.

Comments

[umadoshi]

I'm so glad it went well. ^_^

[yhlee]

I'm glad your reading went well! I'm only sorry I couldn't have been there. :)

[a_reasonable_man]

I'm sorry I missed this reading! I would have liked to hear you sing that song, because I wanted to know the tune.

My family have been patrons of Mary Chung's for three generations. (I'm in the middle one.) The Dun Dun Noodles are a classic.

Pandemonium reading

[dramaticirony]

The reading was lovely, you are quite accomplished at it. The singing was delightful as well.

And I have a whole new book of Sonya Taaffe stories for the long weekend!

Alex Jeffers did a really nice job with the with the book design, it's so inviting. And, as you mentioned, D.G. Smith's cover illustration is quite nice.

[selkie]

You have an excellent face and I am super put out to have missed the reading. They really ought to have built the Boswash Corridor Hyperrail by now!

[kenjari]

It was a very good reading indeed, and also very excellent to see you!

[gwynnega]

That is an excellent photo of what was clearly an excellent reading!

[pameladean]

That's a great photo. I'm so glad the reading went well.

I'm slowly getting through your radio interview. I am a terrible listener even if the material is fascinating. But I'm really enjoying it, enjoying the movie camaraderie, as it were; and learning a lot. You sound remarkably like you -- by which, I guess I mean that the cadences of your speech are perhaps not predictable from your writing, but rather made familiar by it.

Also! My copy of your book arrived yesterday and it is so gorgeous!

P.

[choco_frosh]

I think I really like doing readings.
I am bummed that I missed yet another of them!
I hope sleep happened. I got rather less of it than usual. (Both of these thanks to the fact that I was cleaning out my room in my old apartment until midnight.)

[asakiyume]

Did I not comment on this? How did that (fail to) happen?

This looks excellent; I like their creative stacking of your book and your scholarly air as you read.