Here's some linky kind of love: Three wise men and a Friend of the Happy Booker Report. No, it's not a punchline, it's a winning combination for a busy Monday, the start of spring break when our young kids are home all day wanting to be entertained or at least vaguely amused, and all sentences begin with: "Mommy…."
- Ed, the hardest working man in podcasting, offers these fine interviews for your listening pleasure: Jay McInerney, William T. Vollmann, and Jonathan Ames. Isn't it time you started listening to the Bat Segundo Show and hear what you're missing?
- Dan Wickett, the hardest working man in the blogosphere, takes matters into his own hands and starts his own fiction contest. The winning story—as judged by one of our favorite short story writers Charles D'Ambrosia— will appear in Frostproof Review and earn one lucky writer $500. Psst...To all of our fine feathered fiction writing friends out there: What are you waiting for? Go ahead and join the EWN, read the blog, enter the contest—really, what do you have to lose?
- Tod Goldberg does the Lord's work. He reads Parade Magazine so you don't have to.
FotHB Report—Neko Case at 9:30 by Christy Zink
If anyone has taught us that books and music have necessary crossover,
it's the Happy Booker herself, and Neko Case's concert that I attended
last night at the 9:30 Club here in Washington, DC is surely bound to fuel a few novels from those who stood in that audience and felt those words down in their deep spines. No one in the world sings like that woman — her soul is right out there on the stage, and she's as real and honest as a voice can be, showing us all how it is, unflinching. NPR has made the concert available on their website; listen especially for the surprising and lovely cover of Bob Dylan's "Bucket of Rain," and her rendition of her songs "I Wish I Was the Moon" and "Maybe Sparrow" can't help but open your eyes and choose to live determinedly, no matter what comes, in this hard, old world.
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