a literary confidence
Listen here to Gallant Gulls, Episode 55 of Catunquit Chronicles, for which your intrepid scribe was invited by hosts James Allan and Ashland Comorack to drop by for a chat and to read some of my short stories for their podcast. I am very thankful for the chance since it was a joy to talk about writing with people who appreciate it and do a fair amount of it themselves.
Happy to let all readers of the Mischief Time Blog know about the activities of Jamestown literary group, The Rhodeo Poets, whose active citizens have pulled together a monthly open mic at the popular Narragansett Cafe. If you're around. you don't want to miss it. And if you've got the work, they would love to hear it.
Hello Mischief Time Blog readers...Yours truly has been gone for a while, traveling the beautiful Canadian Maritimes, covering many miles on the Lobster Trail. More about that shortly; I’ve got some goodies on my plate that need to be shared. Much thanks and announcement about an upcoming live event!
News from the Bubble World of Pop Euphoria: The French Connection Comes to WRIU Radio! and we here at the Mischief Time Blog just want to let you know. Bonne journée!
Meet the author: Wayne Cresser will be signing copies of The Book of Norman at Wakefield Books, Wakefield Mall, 160 Old Tower Hill Road in lovely (it is!), Wakefield, RI from 10 am to noon on Saturday, May 3. If you're in the area, please drop by.
Henry slipped the clipping between the last page and the back cover. He’d get back to it later. Right now he felt like he needed to start at the front of the book. He turned to the first page. At the top, in tidy cursive lines, he read, January 1, 1978, These are the ramblings, musings and meanderings of Henry Louis Bell. May they someday find their way to the ones I love.
During this time of national and global turmoil and fear, poets and other artists are more important than ever because they have the capacity to remind us of what matters and what is possible. Please join the Friends of the Jamestown Library for their presentation of RI Poet Laureate Colin Channer at the JPL on the afternoon of Saturday, April 5 at 2 PM.
Once upon a time, kids, very popular recording artists could sing about love--- tribal love, love for humanity, love for joining together in song and love for each other without irony, without schmaltz, and without embarrassment. I’m time traveling now, but that’s Just Between You and Me. Here’s some tunes from the heady days of Brotherly Love, a short list of 10 of the best.
A few weeks after Molly Tuttle took home a Grammy for her Crooked Tree album, she and her band Golden Highway visited the new Groton Hill Music Center, which is as awesome a music venue as you will find. Read the rest and More! More! More! at the Mischief Time Blog!
I do believe you’ll want to get a hold of The Book of Norman, my collection of 18 connected short stories, either for yourself or to give to someone else at this time of year, or both.
