The last time I was near a volcano it was in Hawaii and this guy was trying to get me to go on a helicopter ride over Mauna Loa on the Big Island and look at the lava.
No thanks, I said, thinking how a few months back one of those helicopters had crashed on the side of the mountain and sent its passengers to a premature and useless death.
This story was just published in Straw Dogs magazine.
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Super excited to be published, in audio form, in the wonderful literary magazine The Drum.
The story is called Lucky Cat. (Like one of these guys, seen below in Polaroid form.)
You can listen to the story here.
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Happy New Year, friends.
Let’s hope it’s a good one, full of shiny new things, friends and family, and lots of good music and things to read.
I always like to start the new year with something new, so this year: portraits.
These are portraits of just a few of the wonderful people I spent time with in 2012.
[including Lee Jing-Jing, Ross Sutherland--seen here in his amazing Comedian Dies in the Middle of Joke, catch it if you get a chance, it's so much fun--my lovely new Santorini friends Lily, Myrsini and Oliver, poet Emma McGordon, my friend Rebecca, and of course Thodoris Tzalavras (I'm his official photographer's photographer)]
More portraits to come
Happy 2013!
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I had a story published in Litro magazine last Sunday.
It’s called The Break-In.
You can read it in Litro, where it’s in the company of many other good stories. :)
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I have two tiny stories published as part of the London Clock, a wonderful new literary venture by the London Literary Project, champions of poetry and flash fiction.
Every story is a London minute, exactly 60 words.
The first is called Dark City.
The second, Accidental Discoveries, is accompanied by part of an Impossible Polaroid of the same location (see below.)
It’s so much fun writing flash fiction. And these tiny stories, they fit anywhere. My next one out in the world is published on the back of a postcard!
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It’s Monday, so of course I don’t want to do anything. This is what happens when you forget to stop working on the weekend. So. Much. Writing. Editing. Submitting. Mind swimming.
So, great time to look at some pictures!
These were taken with the older Impossible color film. (Got the new one, haven’t used it yet.)
By the way, notice how crisper that last shot is. That’s because the nice people at Vintage Instant tuned my Land camera last month.
And because I used the new scanner adapter to scan it.
Me: What are Newton rings?
T: (points to previously scanned Polaroids) That. And that.
Me: Oh. (Orders scanner adapter.)
Best Beach Restaurant. I like how proud they are of their establishment. (Pretty good food, too.)
One of my favorite lifeguard tower shots. Where did those colors come from? Does it matter?
And finally: my Impossible Nicosia.
I took this last week at Ledras Street when I was visiting my favorite apples at their post-wandering event.
I showed the picture to the kids.
Instagram, they said, and laughed.
But they were only kidding. They knew what a Polaroid was. The μηλιά kids are geniuses. I ran another mini writing workshop for them and they wrote genius funny stories.
I can’t wait to see what they do next.
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Hanging out with some cool people. And cats. At one of the loveliest bookstores in the known universe. All is good with the world.
xoxo
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I don’t know what made me think of Vegas.
Maybe it’s the heatwave we’ve been having.
Or sending out a story that takes place somewhere between Las Vegas and Baker, CA.
Or a Hunter S. Thompson interview I read in the Paris Review.
Either way I found and scanned these pictures, taken with my old film Canon from the passenger seat somewhere outside L.A. circa 2001.
xoxo
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Book Ex Machina has a brand new website!
Matchbook Stories Issue 1 was featured on Design *Sponge!
I took new Polaroids, some are on the Impossible Project website!
And now I am exhausted, probably from excessive exclamation mark usage.
:)
be back soon xoxo
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