Day: March 1, 2013

The new issue of Salt Hill is outThe new issue of Salt Hill is out

Tonight’s posting was to have been the twelfth of Descartes’s seemingly interminable dreams.  Instead, we shall have this commercial interruption.

Salt Hill 30 is out.  It contains both my story, “Extinguisher,” and my essay, “Unpacking the Object.”  They’re keeping some pretty good company, too–pieces by Diane Williams, Lydia Davis, Peter Markus, and Matthew Salesses, among others.

Go here and see: http://www.salthilljournal.net/.  (You’ll want to order a copy to see the whole thing.)

The unbearable crappines of nowThe unbearable crappines of now

“I can’t bear to accept that everything is basically going to shit. And everything is: the economy, the family, the social structures, the class divide, the political process in this country, global warming, random violence from terrorism. Unless you want to live in denial, I feel that you have to train yourself to find hope. The logical response is to get incredibly depressed, but what’s the point of that?” – A. M. Homes (from interview by Richard Grant)