One for the road

Congratulations to Sung J. Woo, whose amazing 36-date reading schedule has come to a close for 2009!

On his blog, he has some pics (snapped by wife Dawn) from our recent Dirty Laundry reading. (Sung read a great piece that featured another candidate for the Invisible Library—the book-within-the-story was Between the Stitches, I believe; who was the author, Sung?)

Here I rock the zippy sweater look:



(I am pretty much done for the year, too—aside from a talk I'm giving next week.)

Further note about the Ave A Laundromat—the proprietress offered the audience a selection of free books about various aspects of Korean culture, which I've been reading.

"People love it when you lose"

Some cool computery arty stuff here and also here. (From Kaela.)

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And: tomorrow (Thurs.) eve on the Lower East Side: Watch me read at a laundromat! (With Sung J. Woo.) (What would be brilliant is if Stephen King were reading from his haunted laundry machine story.)



I hope they play that DON HENLEY SONG!

I'll come running (to dry your clothes)

Eno parted ways with Roxy Music in 1973 after a major falling out with Ferry. Later on, Eno claimed that he knew he was through with Roxy Music when he started thinking about his laundry during performances. —Geeta Dayal, Another Green World

Speaking of laundry: I'll be reading next Thursday, November 12, at...the Avenue A Laundromat (97 Avenue A)! Has it come to this??? (A: Yes!) I'll be reading with fellow Korean American novelist/New Order fan Sung J. Woo. It's part of the Dirty Laundry reading series. Things get rolling promptly at 7 p.m. (CORRECTION: 7:30 P.M.!) I'm not sure if you're allowed to do laundry during the reading. (I'll know that I'm through with readings if I start thinking about Roxy Music.)

Fast-forward........Two days after that, I'll be at Page Turner, the Asian American Literary Festival, yapping on a panel ("Everyone's a Critic") with the inimitable Hua Hsu....and Dennis Freakin' Lim...(they should just rename the Sunday Arts & Leisure section the Dennis & Lim section).

It's all happening at 2 p.m. on Saturday, November 14, on the ground floor of powerHouse, at 37 Main St. in DUMBO—here are directions!