I told you you could fly. Glad you remember. Go, friend!
If you remember when the skies were calm and the birds were calling; if you can forsake your compulsion for language for spontaneous permutation; if you wish this sentence would end but decide to keep reading it; if you opened a newspaper and saw columns of blog posts and thought 'this is the future! we're doomed;' we are right there with you.
For on Thurs, Jul 15 10 InsideStoryTime brought us together for REDISCOVERY. Host James Warner put together one of the better IST's I've been to (and I've included links to them below). It was a hard decision to make, because the SF Slam was that same evening and I was very much looking forward to experiencing that scene for the first time … but I'm glad I made the decision I did, and now that I have assistants I am pleased to inform you that Charles Kruger will be posting a report of the Slam in the next couple of days.
With all of the hype of the more than dozen series that have started this very year, since Quiet Lightning began (!)—and I promise my article on reading series is going live on The Bay Citizen any week this year—it's a really good feeling when you go to a series that's over 4 years old and feel how it is still holding things together; how it still makes sense. I worry about that, you know. It amazes me that QL is approaching its 8th show … that we have put it together 8 times. Each one seems so epic and crucial. How could we do it for years? I don't see how. But people do it. InsideStoryTime does it.
If you don't know who Caitlin Myer is, you don't read this column. I'm sure you know who Tanya Egan Gibson is by now. Have you seen my posts re: Karl Soehlein? Look into it. I have also recently become acquainted with Patricia Volonakis Davis and had the treat of hearing her read for the first time—such a prescient soul! But what would a reading be without someone I didn't know? Ravi Chandra's travel writing is phenomenal. Really. Give it a watch.
Some background on IST
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This is absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much for your delightful write up of an evening which I thoroughly enjoyed!
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