I don't know whether the new year will see an
uptick in my postings here. It just may be. We shall see. The silence
lately hasn't been because I haven't been reading, or suddenly have
stopped having opinions, or think there's any less need for left
literary rants. What I've started having, I'm sorry to report, is some
health problems. Mechanic and organic. Nothing life-threatening but real
enough that I've just been dealing with them, getting by day to day
getting to work and back and not much else.
However. I have high
hopes that there will soon be an improvement on the health front, and
with that renewed energy for Read Red. Meanwhile there are a couple
bright spots in my own literary life to report.
One is that I have a
story, "The Ellen Burstyn Equation," in the new issue of Newtown
Literary. I admire what the Newtown folks are doing to promote writers
from my NYC borough, Queens, and am delighted that my work is included
in this latest offering. It's issue #3, and you can order it here.
I haven't taken part in a literary event for a long time, but the second bit of good news is that I will be doing so very soon. It's the upcoming New York incarnation of Stories & Queer, a national reading series highlighting LGBTQ poets and writers.
I'm pleased and honored that Ruben Quesada and Brian Kornell, the brains behind S&Q, asked me to take part. I'll be reading an excerpt from the novel I'm currently working on. So if you're in NYC and don't maintain an inside-on-winter-nights policy -- or even if, like me, you do, you can, like me, suspend the policy for this one night and -- come on down to the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division to join us for some good queer fun.
I'll be back here at Read Red soon with my annual list of the best books I read this year.
