IF IT’S SPRING, IT MUST BE TIME FOR ANOTHER READING!

Welcome to Spring! Finally!

I’m delighted to report that I’m doing my semi-annual (Spring) reading in only a matter of days – May 8th to be exact – at my favorite venue, the Cornelia Street Café, 6 pm.  Please come and enjoy yourselves!

I’ll be reading, as I have done in recent years, from my recently completed novel Problems of Translation, which is at this very moment scouring the field looking for a publisher, as well as from an even more recently completed short story, “In the Shadow of the Condor.”

And by the way!  I’m excited by some great comments I’ve received from those who’ve read the novel in manuscript.  Like the following:

“. . . practically every paragraph twinkles with humor . . . ,”

“ . . .erudite from start to finish . . . ,”

“One of the most enjoyable books . . .in recent memory,”

“Marvelous touches of . . . poignancy that don’t . . . delay the progress of the story toward its delectable conclusion . . . ,”

“ . . . pretty much perfectly done.”

Please be assured I am far too circumspect to include another comment (I SWEAR THIS IS WHAT THIS WRITER SAID!): “[a] remarkable protagonist . . . [who] keeps encountering wet-dream women who find him attractive . . . .”

In any event, it should be a fine evening.  I’ll be sharing the stage with Shelly Stenhouse, a widely published poet, author of the collection PANTS and winner of numerous awards, including the Allen Ginsberg.  Shelly was also a finalist in the 2009 National Poetry Series competition and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes (NO FAIR!  I’VE ONLY BEEN NOMINATED FOR ONE!).

So hopefully we’ll see many of you on Wednesday, May 8 at 6 pm at the Cornelia Street Café (off Bleecker St. just to the west of Sixth Avenue), where you’ll pay your $8 to receive not only a free glass of wine but a great evening’s entertainment.

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