attend some literary events

last monday i went to see Maya Angelou speak at UConn, which was fabulous.

most recently I plied a young woman with the idea of “MISC. REFERENCE NOTES” or “MISC NOTES”, including a variety of secret-seeming material such as the following:

4 Means for Schizophrenic Advantage: (1) Coherence in understanding, or means of systemitizing material as a ground for confidence or dynamic approach (2) Talking about talking, a technique that appears normal and is very accessible (3) Getting results, something that in principle implies individual potency, and via principle may determine more greatly a degree of certainty or grounding in the real than to determine precisely what is believed, or what actions taken (4) Art or other means to limn feeling, creating an image of a world of life that may be believed even when the world is dead to feeling, or incoherent to intellectual sense

4 Categories of Mirth: (1) Laughter (e.g. flagrant enjoyment in spite)(2) Merriment [e.g. a stomach murmur] (3) Superiority (e.g. unconquerable excuberant certainty)(4) Inhesis [poetic ‘mastery-by-determination’, otherwise defined as inherant knowledge, intuition, understanding, apprehension, insight, deconstruction, depth perception, subtle awareness, metaphorical progenesis, correspondant archetype-state, identity soul-concept identification, philosophical determination of nature, iterative ontological deductive reasoning of the attributive forma, concept-nature identification, self-conscious loop of identification as compared to self-knowledge, or something else less certain]

or a Beggar, Rich Man, King distinction on the idea of extravagence and how it is won

Thursday, October 9, 2008, 7pm – LITQUAKE
Bob Calhoun joins Michelle Richmond, Sylive Simmons, Jack Boulware, Beth Lisick, Alan Black, David Sterry and Michael Disend for the West Coast’s premiere literary event.
Hemlock Tavern, 1131 Polk St., San Francisco, CA 94109, (415) 923-0923

A writer/author friend of mine (Bob Calhoun) reading with an author I really like (Beth Lisick)! Sweet!

A writer friend of mine, Bob Calhoun, will be reading at Cody’s Books on June 30th. (Scroll down to the bottom of the page!) I haven’t read the book yet, so I’ll be buying a copy of it and making sure he autographs it with something bizzarre, as I plan to make it an interesting addition to my collection.

Progressive Reading Series Blog

I’m looking at the upcoming schedule for this and there are some authors I’d really like to see this summer. Neal Pollack! OMG!

since I’ve done any of this. There are events, plenty in New York I’m sure, that I avoid attending.

There are sometimes writing groups that I don’t enjoy. There are cafes where I can read, although they are not the best kind.

Sometimes I wonder if it is always literary even to be an author. I can’t say that I am looking precisely for a conglomeration of publishing relationships, memos and momentoes, and the smell of paper.

There are times when sitting with a project is fulfilling. It doesn’t happen as often as I would like. However, as difficult as it is to find a suitable experience, equally it is difficult to become a writer.

As unforgiving and misgiven the writer’s experience, I am making steps. Quietly I am learning it is an intended path, but not ideal.

I had a bad day. I’m promising myself to get Lemony Snicket out of my head as soon as possible.

is obviously stalled. When I wrote it I was partly hoping to have book signings. Now I haven’t even bothered to look around the city for standard local events.

Litquake begins next Friday! I’m debating buying tickets to opening night. This is really something that I would like attend with a friend or date in tow, but I am too poor to purchase multiple tickets at the moment. Maybe I will ask around and see if I can spark some interest. I am very excited about some of the authors involved in the Lit Crawl, which occurs after the festival.

MARISHA PESSL, author of SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS, her debut novel structured around a Great Works of Literature class & containing visual aids (drawn by the author). Tuesday, August 29th at 7 pm. The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco. 415-863-8688.

IRVINE WELSH, reading & book signing for THE BEDROOM SECRETS OF THE MASTER CHEFS. Set partly in San Francisco, it is the story of two men locked in a war of wills which threatens their very existence. Tuesday, August 22nd at 7 pm. The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco. 415-863-8688.

I have to attend one of these anyways as an assignment for my writing class. Might as well start now.