An excerpt from my novel(-in-progress) is up at Narrative Backstage today, alongside audio readings from James Salter, Donald Hall, and Ann Beattie, new fiction from Richard Bausch, Stuart Dybek, Josh Weil, and Charlie Smith, new nonfiction from Rick Bass, and much more. Originally this post included a disquisition on the use of autobiographical elements in made-up stories, but I thought . . .
Last year Joseph Clarke, my brilliant brother-in-law, visited the Creation Museum, a Kentucky theme park that “crackles with all the animatronic and multimedia glitz that one might expect from a museum founded by a former Universal Studios executive, and it seems to be doing a booming business.” “Rather than present a coherent argument for a particular view of life’s origins,” . . .
CAAF engages in furious Emily Dickinson correspondence with the library, threatens to win our spinsteriest sentence competition.
Given her way with logic, it’s a real shocker that Caitlin Flanagan worried about flunking geometry her senior year.
The Jane Austen Museum, overwhelmed by cremated human remains, bans the scattering of ashes in the garden.