Into the mystic

I talk to the Columbia Spectator about Personal Days, and opine: “Language is never static.”

Shut the door. Have a seat.

(From Jessica)

Park-Lim-Hsu in Brooklyn

I'll be appearing today at Page-Turner: The Asian American Literary Festival, at 2 p.m., on a panel with my friends Hua Hsu and Dennis Lim. (It's at Powerhouse in DUMBO.) Lots of other great-sounding speakers, readers, panels—check 'em out!

Here's a bit from an interview I did for Beatrice:

We all know that writers can be exceptionally good at procrastinating when they should be writing. What do you typically do to procrastinate?

This week I spent far too long watching YouTube clips of old Sandra Bernhard appearances on Letterman. I just couldn’t get enough.

Ka-ching!

Sixty...sixty-five...seventy...eighty...eighty-five!

November appearances!

I. Thurs., November 12, 7:30 p.m. (TIME CORRECTED!): Reading with Sung J. Woo for Dirty Laundry, at the Avenue A Laundromat (97 Avenue A).

II. Sat., November 14, 2 p.m.: Panel ("Everyone's a Critic!") with fellow critics Hua Hsu and Dennis Lim, for Page Turner: The Asian American Literary Festival. Ground floor, PowerHouse Arena, 37 Main St., DUMBO, Brklyn.

Personal Days — Autumn 2009

Hudson Valleyites! This Sunday, 10/25, at 4:30: I'm at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center in Sleepy Hollow, NY, reading with Christine Lehner.

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And on November 14, I'll be appearing with my good friends Hua Hsu and Dennis Lim to talk about criticism at the Asian American Literary Festival. It's at 2 p.m. at the PowerHouse Arena in Brooklyn.

Unstoppable

Jeff Glor: What inspired you to write this book [The Interrogative Mood]?
Padgett Powell: Let us say I received workplace emails exclusively in the interrogative, like this: "Is it time for our esteemed Director [I was the Director] to have a chat with the Provost about our autonomy? Are we remembering what was promised us last spring by the Dean? Will we be content, again, to let History repeat itself?" and let us say I started wanting to have some ready answers: How do you stand in relation to the potato? Do you love the velvet ant as much as I?

And could not stop, for 140 pages.

—CBS

(Via TEV)