Garth Stein

To distract my mother from the shoulder she broke Friday evening, I gave her my "Raven 2.0" stories. These are stories I've written inspired by the artwork of https://www.prestonsingletary.com/ We're having an opening for First Thursday Art Walk at https://www.travergallery.com/

My mother is reading the stories while I'm cooking her dinner she can eat with her non-dominate hand, and she laughs out loud and stifles and looks at me and says, "It's not supposed to be funny is it?" And I say, "Yes, it's supposed to be funny." And she says, "Oh, good, because it's really funny!"

Hey, I did a podcast in West Virginia. Reading Room Ruffians. They're a good bunch, those whacky WV librarians! It's about The Cloven but other stuff, too. Pass it on!

Here's another article on that Rockingham debacle.

I'm proud to say that my edgy and iconoclastic book about a dog who fantasizes about becoming a race car driver (I mean, who doesn't?), was banished--condemned!--torn from the library stacks!--in Rockingham County Public Schools, because, you know, if an empowering message of self-reliance also mentions a "heaving bosom," we should and must sacrifice the message! Or something.

I know all my North End friends are coming to Wanderlust Book Lounge on Thursday at 7:00 for my presentation on the perils of genetic exploitation. Or something. #TheCloven