New Books to Look For
Here are 4 books to look for: three coming out very soon (next week! next month!) and one that was published late last year just as Covid was surging and election-related horrors were gearing up…
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Columbus, OH: 4/18 @3:45pm
On Wednesday April 18, with artist Riva Lehrer, I’ll be giving the Ethel Louise Armstrong Lecture on Disability Arts and Culture at Ohio State University’s 18th Annual Multiple Perspectives Conference at 3:45pm.
Read moreMaking Disability Public, Friday May 13
This is my first appearance where I not only talk about and read from my work but discuss the impact of disability on that work. Expect readings focused on the body and its full-sensory physical delights…
Read moreComing out as a cripple
I’ve never hidden the fact that I have MS but today I’m coming out as a cripple—claiming my identity as disabled.
Read moreColder Wind
“Colder Wind” by Wylie Beckert. A few months ago I did a post about all the different art of “Cold Wind,” my…
Read moreAll the different art of “Cold Wind”
At the end of last summer—mid-August—I unexpectedly wrote a short story, “Cold Wind.” It was triggered by heat and brine and music…
Read moreYour mystery for today
What do this picture, a detail from Terry Windling’s Deer Maiden (which hangs on our wall; we bought it at a Tiptree…
Read moreSome interesting bits of an interesting year, Part One
As always, it’s been an interesting year. Despite rewriting Hild, a 200,000 words novel, more than once, I managed to do a…
Read moreMy portrait is finished
Riva Lehrer’s portrait of me is finished (for a long, ruminative explanation of the project, read this post). Unframed, it measures 32 x…
Read morePortrait in progress
I think I’ve mentioned before that I was contacted late last year by artist Riva Lehrer who wanted to do my portrait…
Read moreHow I look now
photo by Riva Lehrer, January 2012 This photo is by the artist Riva Lehrer. It’s low-res and not well-lit because it’s just…
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