GOODBYE 2021
Added 2021-12-30 23:21:36 +0000 UTCI am writing you from a tiny room in a community house with a shared bathroom in the Mar Vista area of L.A., where it's been raining non-stop for days. I will be here through New Year's morning, when I move to a friend's place in Silver Lake, while looking for an apartment to rent.
I have your cards in my bag to mail, already stamped, but with all of the lugging around of my stuff in the rain these past few days, I haven't taken the cards out of my sketchbook lest they sog and bleed.
I had some good news over the past couple weeks: WW Norton is licensing one of the stories from Glow in the Dark for an anthology to be published in 2023, and I have the essay and the Author Recommends column coming out in February 2022 in The Passenger: California published by Europa Editions, via Iperborea in Italy, and I have a few words on Joan Didion coming out in 11 papers of the Southern California New Group, and will appear online next week. I feel like I'm forgetting something...
But I just wanted to wish you all a beautiful New Year's Eve and a lovely ringing in of 2022. The New Moon is on Sunday morning PST time and though I won't be "home" as I am pretty much unhoused, I am confident that not far into January that will no longer be the case.
Sending lots of LOVE and GRATITUDE to you all for supporting me and making this year of working almost exclusively on my own creativity a most profound one. This has been a deeply touching journey and amazing year, all thanks to you.
