For instance, Helen comes

[sovay]

So now there's a stack of these in Porter Square Books:



The reading went really well. nineweaving's new paperback is very classy. Afterward derspatchel presented me with a hardcover reprint of Esther Averill's Jenny and the Cat Club (1973) and sairaali gave me a stunningly adorable hand-knitted nudibranch. I got to talk to schreibergasse for more than half an hour between job interviews and audioboy took the picture above. My book is sitting between something with a cat on it and the paperback of a novel I have been waiting for.

Evening: success.

Comments

[phi]

Is that Gladstone's Full Fathom Five to the left of your book? Did you pick it up? I'm looking forward to your review of it.

[sovay]

Is that Gladstone's Full Fathom Five to the left of your book? Did you pick it up? I'm looking forward to your review of it.

It is! I didn't pick it up last night, because I fell in love with a bilingual edition of Pasolini's poetry, but the purchase of that resulted in a frequent buyers' coupon and therefore I will apply it to Full Fathom Five the next time I'm in the store, because I have heard nothing but good things about that novel and I'm really curious.

. . . That was probably a more detailed answer than you were looking for. I'm really enjoying Pasolini, though.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

A wonderful evening!

Nine

[sovay]

A wonderful evening!

It was!

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry not to have been there - but glad it went well!

[sovay]

I'm sorry not to have been there - but glad it went well!

Thank you! If anything like photographs turn up, I'll try to post or link them. I know audioboy got a recording.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

That sounds immensely successful and satisfying. Hooray!

Also, the nudibranch is adorable.

[sovay]

That sounds immensely successful and satisfying. Hooray!

Thank you! It was great.

Also, the nudibranch is adorable.

It is very pettable and endearing. I have put it on a shelf well out of reach of the cats. Have you also seen Saira's mantis?

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

That is an incredibly formidable mantis. I once shared a bedroom with a rather large free-range mantis, but not quite so large as that. I think I would be faintly uneasy sleeping in a room with a live mantis of that size, but that one looks reasonably pettable, given that its scythe-like forearms will probably not snap shut on me.

Saira's work has put me in a mischievous frame of mind. There may be unforeseen crochet consequences. :)

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! It also looks as though one of your cats has snuck onto the neighbouring book cover to watch.

[sovay]

Congratulations! It also looks as though one of your cats has snuck onto the neighbouring book cover to watch.

It is a strikingly similar cat! (The eyes are not quite the right color, but I cannot blame the cover designer for not consulting us.) Thank you.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Ha! Very similar to my thoughts, seeing this photo.

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for you and Greer! I saw the reading in PSB's latest e-mail newsletter, and promptly cursed because James had got us tickets, months ago, to see Vienna Teng in Somerville last night. I am glad to hear it went beautifully. I wish I could have attended!

[sovay]

I saw the reading in PSB's latest e-mail newsletter, and promptly cursed because James had got us tickets, months ago, to see Vienna Teng in Somerville last night.

Vienna Teng last night was a very popular choice! I hope it was a good concert. You can come to the next reading!

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

Is the next reading at this point theoretical, or has it already been scheduled? If already scheduled, please do let me know when and where :)

(On that note: I sent you, April, and Gillian an email a handful of days back re: reading-ish things. At this point, even just chiming in with yea / nay interest from proposed parties is what Ali is looking for from us, seeing as we'd be looking to schedule something for late summer or autumn at this point. I do not know if you have been in that gallery, but it's a lovely little space, and I'm thrilled to have found someone in this city who seems keen to have poets on hand doing their thing!)

[sovay]

Is the next reading at this point theoretical, or has it already been scheduled?

Theoretical, but I want to make one happen. I don't usually read outside conventions and I enjoy it.

At this point, even just chiming in with yea / nay interest from proposed parties is what Ali is looking for from us, seeing as we'd be looking to schedule something for late summer or autumn at this point.

Done!

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

It was very good to see you in a non-rushed situation, too! Thank you so much for letting me tag along to dinner. And sorry if I spent too much of it complaining about the current state of my life.

[sovay]

And sorry if I spent too much of it complaining about the current state of my life.

*hugs*

Avaunt, Tiny Wittgenstein.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The black cat on the cover of The Good Luck of Right Now is interested in your book.

So glad the reading went well.