MEMBER BLOG TAG: a long long way
| Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:08PM | | | | Meltdown Diary, Part I | Tags: Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture, a Long Long way, Booker Prize,
| | | Tuesday, 9.05
New York is drinking ice tea. So would you if you were here. East Village is soaking in the sun and tonight I'm going to my first World Voices event, the Literary Film Feast at Instituto Cervantes.
10.10
Writers are ridiculous. We walk into book stores looking for our own novels. When we don't find them, we go into meltdown mode. We head up to the desk and demand that they order the book. We scream and shout like Italians. In protest we start signing books by Stephen King or Shakespeare. The book store calls the police: two sweaty policemen arrive and put us in handcuffs; we spend the night in straight jackets shouting, "you should buy my... | | | | | |
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