March 8, 2007

p.s. post-TEE

if my posts today do not make sense today–excuse. i am totally drugged up and regaining my equilibrium. i went in for my TEE (transesophageal echocardiagram) today, a fancy way to say “stick a tube down my throat and look at the hole in the back side of my heart.”
in performing the TEE, [...]

March 8, 2007

Best Young American “Novelists”

A friend and I were discussing this list the other day–she was dismayed that Granta’s Best Young American Novelists included a large handful of writers who have yet to finish a novel. (For the count and a similar opinion, check out Dan Wickett at Emerging Writers, who has a very accurate count–though I must [...]