Maplewoods Mirror #10½

 

This isn’t a full newsletter, but a quick update to the one I sent last week.   

 

• The first thing is that I’m part of a panel speaking tonight (Thursday, March 15^th) at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena.  The address is 695 E. Colorado Boulevard at El Molino.  It’s next to the Laemmle Playhouse 7.  “Writers on Writing” is about the writing life as well as the classes we teach.  I’ll be signing books, too.

 

If you’re like me, you mean to do a lot of things that are likely interesting.  I have one entire bookcase of books I’ve been meaning to read, which include such titles as Janet Fitch’s Paint in Black, Dick Francis’ Come to Grief, and Garrison Keillor’s Love Me.  In case you’ve been meaning to listen or see any of the four interviews I’ve done, here they are in one handy spot:

 

1)     Kidney Talk  - This is new as of yesterday, and I just listened to it last night.  I felt, hey, I held my own pretty darn well with actor Stephen Furst, whose one-liners kept zipping my way.  A lot of good historical information comes off, too.  Go to http://www.rsnhope.org/. You might enjoy it running in the background--talk radio to type by.  With your mouse, you can latch onto the playback bar and whisk through the two commercial breaks.  Then again, the commercials are for dialysis products, things you normally don't hear, so that's unusual.

 

2)    Lulu Books – This audio interview goes into my short stories and publishing.  Go to http://tinyurl.com/29evlb

 

3)    Expanded Books – This video interview about The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea is simply well shot and professionally done.  It’s as if I fell into a Ken Burns documentary.  Go to http://tinyurl.com/ty3vx

 

4)    On Books – My friend Gordon Kurowski shot this at CalArts, with Daniel Will-Harris interviewing me.  Go to http://tinyurl.com/2f47cg

 

If you want to buy either book (any birthdays coming up?), go to www.vromansbookstore.com or www.amazon.com, and type in my name.

 

If you want to see my website for back issues and other news, please visit www.chrismeeks.com.  The back issues are on the bottom of the left column.

 

I’m now onto polishing my next novel, Falling Down Mt. Washington.

 

 

 

Two happy drinkers of the award-winning "Meeks Hilltop Ranch" Zinfandel 2004, produced by Wellington Vineyards.  It's from my father's grapes in the Sonoma Valley.  You can order it from www.wellingtonvineyards.com.