Reid attended Tom McGuane’s signing for his new book of short stories, Crow Fair, at the Tattered Cover, where they talked of Helen’s meteoric rise, gun nuts, and the blog– I was pleased to know he sometimes checks in. He was kind enough to send down an inscribed copy via Reid– thanks to both. I …
Author: Steve Bodio
Truth
Actual headline from this morning’s Wall Street Journal:
Doggage: Tails, Ears, Teeth…
Jutta’s girls Taalai and Nhubia of course…
Useful phrase
From the great Victorian explorer and translator Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: “Lying like a publisher.”
Generic?
Constant commenter Lucas Machais wondered if the cover photo on the new ed of Querencia– the- book, seen below with my other new covers, was “generic”. I am afraid I got more indignant than I should have. We pay attention to the particular here, not the general. I answered that the cover photo “… …
Customs
If you don’t want your overseas package to look like this when you receive it… You probably shouldn’t order bootjacks that look like this all the way from France! Photos courtesy of Gil Stacy.
Quote
From the Cornell Gun Catalog Reprint site: “”A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don’t have one, you’ll probably never need one again…”
Covers
Covers for four of my reprints, all good so far… the last, the new Eagle Dreams with Cat Urbigkit’s cover of my late friend Aralbai, and intro, the observations of a Wyoming cowgirl and stockwoman (and writer) fifteen years or so after me, has been out only a couple of weeks. Now if I could …
Truth
From Jack:
Friday Doggage
Shiri’s new Meshi, at rest and in motion…