December 5th, 2008
So I’m still obsessively looking for that ancient Times clipping containing their first use of the word “gay” as opposed to “homosexual.” I don’t think it was in the article Sara linked to in the last post. And as I recall, I neglected to date the clipping, so finding it won’t yield any real information anyway. But you know how when you can’t find something, you sort of go crazy? I’m doing that. Maybe it’s just my way of settling down after all the hubbub about the NY Times review of The Essential DTWOF on Wednesday. But look what I ran across while rooting through my “clippings” folder! An article from my local paper from July 1, 1992. The first version was in the morning edition. The second, in the afternoon edition.
December 3rd, 2008
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For just got this amazing rave in the NY Times.
Lemme tell you whippersnappers. I can remember when the Times wouldn’t even print the word “dyke.” In fact, somewhere in my vast archives I have a tiny clipping from 1983 or so…maybe even later…containing the first instance of the Times using the word “gay,” as opposed to “homosexual.”
I’m just saying.
December 2nd, 2008
There was a strangely moving article in my local newspaper yesterday about Iraq war vets turning their uniforms into handmade paper. It’s by my pal Lauren Ober.
If you live in Northern Vermont, come to one of my readings/signings for Essential Dykes to Watch Out For. I’ll be at Bear Pond in Montpelier tonight, and at the Flying Pig in Shelburne tomorrow. Thanks to the redoubtable Cathy Resmer for posting about it on the blog of our local alt weekly Seven Days.
More links…a semi-coherent interview with me on Bookslut.
November 24th, 2008
Here’s an instructional video In Which Holly Demonstrates How To Plant Garlic And I Ramble On About The Buddha And A Freaky Dream I Had.
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D’you all know about JoinTheImpact? This big spontaneous Read the rest of this entry »
November 20th, 2008
Dateline: Hotel Northampton, at the end of my Essential DTWFOF book tour. It’s a cold gray morning and I’m very psyched about driving home today. I’ve been too crazed to do a regular post about each city I was in, but look! If I missed your town, you can watch my presentation here. Read the rest of this entry »
November 16th, 2008
If yer in NYC, come to my reading at the Upper West Side Bunns & Noodle at 7pm Monday night, 11/17! Look, here’s a drawing my friend Riva Lehrer made of me Read the rest of this entry »
November 14th, 2008
When I got to Chicago yesterday, my literary escort (my ex Amy asked me if that meant a well-read hooker, but no, it means the person who picks authors up at the airport on their book tours and carts them around) gave me a tour of Obama’s neighborhood. This is his street, all blocked off by the Secret Service. But we didn’t go to Hyde Park just to gawk like these people are doing. Mainly we went there so I could sign books at the 57th Street Bookstore.
Can you imagine George Bush being a member of a co-op bookstore? Oh. So my escort guy worked on the campaign, and was still really, really amped up about everything. He would have stopped the car so we could walk down the street and be frisked by secret service agents, but I demurred. But look, he insisted that I take pictures of Grant Park, and I did my best as we whizzed by.
It’s there, behind that SUV, okay?
So I said in the last post that there was a really lovely, large, ardent crowd at my Women and Children First event last night. I don’t have any photos because I was too busy to take any. I was at the store signing books till 10pm. Near the end, a police officer on her beat happened in. She said her wife was a big fan, and she had me sign a book for her. As I did that, I was also chatting with three young seminarians of various genders, from the Chicago Theological Seminary. Isn’t that kinda wild? That wouldn’t have happened 20 years ago, a cop in uniform and three ministers coming to one of my booksignings.
November 14th, 2008
When I was in LA on Wednesday, I got to hang out a little with my old pal Phranc. Read the rest of this entry »
November 10th, 2008
Here I am at Wordstock in Portland yesterday talking to the awesome young cartoonists Erika Moen, on the left, and Dylan Meconis, in the middle, and Dylan’s gf Katie. Portland is such a hotbed of comics and also of queerness, it was quite overwhelming.
So I’m out on this book tour and I’ve been going so flat out I Read the rest of this entry »
November 10th, 2008
If you’re in San Francisco, please come to my reading tonight at Booksmith! 1644 Haight St., 7:30pm.
Tomorrow, Tuesday November 11, I’ll be at the UC Berkeley Bookstore at 4pm. This is in the Student Union, apparently, at the corner of Bancroft Way and Telegraph Ave.
Wednesday the 12th I’ll be in Los Angeles at Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd. at 7pm.
Thursday the 13th, Chicago! Women and Children First, 7:30 pm.
Then I go home and wash out my leotard, (I’ll send a prize to the first person who gets that reference) and it’s off to New York on Monday.
I’ll be at the Upper West Side Bunns and Noodle on Monday November 17th at 7pm.
Tuesday evening the 18th I’ll be at Lesley College University in Cambridge doing a reading for the Center for New Words.
And Wednesday the 19th I’ll be in Northampton at the Broadside Bookshop at 7pm.
