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Interview with ABC Radio

 
That’s the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and the interview took place on August 13, 2008.  Listen:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2329112.htm
 
(and note that this radio network actually broadcasts a daily Book Show, to which you may listen for free, on podcast)

Uncollected Story Up at 5 Chapters.com

“Medea in the Garden” is ready for reading, in installments, at
http://www.fivechapters.com/medea_in_the_garden/part_one_93.php

Cultural Notes from All Over

From the North County Times Books Calendar for June 1:
 – At The Book Works, Flower Hill Promenade, 2670 Via de la Valle, Suite A230, Del Mar, (858) 755-3735:
Shawn Tomson will sign and discuss “Surfer’s Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life” at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Jincy Willett will discuss and sign “The Writing Class”at 7 p.m. [...]

Dennis Cass Explains it All For You

And good for him, too.  A must-see for everyone who dreams of someday getting published.
Book Launch 2.0 on YouTube
 
 
 

The Writing Class–Here’s the cover


Bring out your dead: My radio play

TRIVIAL PURSUIT
(or Requiem for the Hornblooms)
A Radio Play in Three Acts
By
Jincy WillettSIX CHARACTERS:
Fred & Ethel (couple in their sixties or seventies)
Buck & Penny,
Randy & Alice (young academics)
Act One
(sounds of cutlery on china, people eating)
Ethel: Pork balls?
Buck: Oh, I couldn’t.
Ethel: Potato puffs?
Randy, Alice: Really, no.
Ethel: Who wants more pork balls? Speak up, kids. Lets don’t be [...]

Why isn’t this kitsch?

If you go to the Talaria Museum Store at  http://www.talariaenterprises.com/product_lists/parastone/bosch-garden-earthly-deli.html, you’ll discover that it’s actually (probably) within your means to own a Hieronymus Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights action figure, such as
 
 This is the one I picked for myself, and it makes me inordinately happy, although lately I’ve been keeping in the trunk of my [...]