You are going to go order this guy's book(s), particularly Refresh, Refresh, because I can vouch personally that it is amazing.
And because he just sent the B a blurb for BWTK (that being Bend with the Knees and Other Love Advice from My Father) and it is so amazing, so everything that I love about the B's writing and said just perfectly, that if I weren't chained to my laptop right now hammering away at freelance shit, I would jump into the Camry, race around the corner, buy a growler of Velvet Hammer, and drive it straight to Stevens Point, to that man's front door, and leave it sitting there with a card that simply reads, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. YOU ARE FUCKING AWESOME.
I've read The Language of Elk and loved it. Refresh, Refresh will have to be next. When will BWTK come out?
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I miss the Great Dane.
Woo-hoo!
ReplyDeleteWait till you hear him talk. JUST WAIT TILL.
I'm going to have to insist that you send me what he wrote. I won't share it with anyone else; I promise.
One of my speech kids is performing a cutting from the "Refresh, Refresh" (the short story, not the collection)! Yeah. It is amazing.
ReplyDeleteSo is this. So is the B. So are you.
Chelle: in October 08--we hope.
ReplyDeleteJeano: done.
Chaddo: we know. But thanks!
nice. can't wait to read ben's book--when is it out again??
ReplyDeletealso--will u guys be at awp?
ben and i did a reading a few yrs ago in IL. nice guy. I called him the white barry white. if you ever hear him speak you will be quietly chuckling to yourself.