Category Archives: Reading

The Five Venoms

It was actually five writers reading a mix of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction–but I believe there was some venomous substance to the work. Thank you to everyone who attended the Stone Canoe Reading at Hamilton College and thanks to my fellow readers for their gifts of literary poison.…

The Physics of Imaginary Objects

Tina May Hall’s The Physics of Imaginary Objects is shipping now! And how can this be? The book in my hands over a month before the publication date? Do not question your good fortune, gentle reader, just grab it while you can.…

Summer Reading

When I was in grade school, I read nearly every book in the library’s children section and had to move to the bigger books that were kept upstairs. These days, I just reread A Moveable Feast over and over.…

Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!

Tina May Hall’s The Physics of Imaginary Objects is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Arise, all loosely connected acquaintances, and purchase this incipient thing!…

Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Tina May Hall’s The Physics of Imaginary Objects has won the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Here’s the press release to tell you all about it!…

Born under a red sun

My friend Kamila Shamsie recently returned to Hamilton College and read from her latest novel, Burnt Shadows. The book is getting great reviews everywhere and was short-listed for the Orange Prize. A friend and I endured the international shipping charges in order to get the red sun cover from the UK because, uh, some …