Hi everyone! Thanks for signing up for these things. I hope that you’re ok, or something like ok, wherever you are.
Here are some things that aren’t horrible:
The first thing I want to tell you about is this book called True Story by my friend Kate Reed Petty. I wrote about it here for Entropy. I think many of you would really like it. Last year, Kate hosted me for a book event series in Baltimore called Apocalypse Book Club. For the series (now on hiatus), she would pair up a writer and another artist whose work addresses or grapples with climate catastrophe in some way. (Kate paired me up with noise artist Andrew Paul Keiper, who had recently embarked on a project to make field recordings at former nuclear testing sites. His grandfather worked on developing the first atomic bomb, and much of Andrew’s work wrestles with this fact and the complicated legacy of atomic weaponry—all of it translated sonically.) Anyway! Kate is a stunning writer and a creative thinker—check out her book if you like thinking about the nature of stories and their complexity.
The next thing I want to tell you about is the second printing of my (first) book. It has a new cover and two introductions (one by me and a particularly heart-breaking, beautiful one by writer and (cover) artist Matthew Revert). To celebrate the second printing, Clash Books (my publisher) is doing a limited run of hardcover copies. The hardcover will come with a signed bookplate, a handwritten note from me, a dream map of the book’s locations, and some other extras that we haven’t quite settled on yet. If you want to, you can order that here. (Just a note that I don’t know how many hardcovers are left and it’s a limited run!)
That said, if you want to read the book or listen to the audiobook but you don’t have the $ to purchase at the moment, send me a note and I’ll give you a code for a free audiobook download and/or a pdf of the book/ebook.
If you like podcasts and (true) horror stories, you might like this one, featuring my friend Chioke I’Anson. If you were at my book release party or you’ve listened to the audiobook of I’m From Nowhere or if you listen to NPR or if you’ve been a student at VCU, you’ll probably recognize his voice.
I like to make this tomato galette with the last of the late-summer tomatoes and it’s always incredible.
Last thing: I am one of the editors for Black Telephone Magazine and the first print magazine is now up for preorder. Lots of the content is free online, but the print magazine has some extra stuff and is going to be really beautiful and special. (Super talented Catalonian artist Joel Amat Güell is doing the design and layout and yes, it will look sort of like a haunted phonebook.) It features so many talented writers—it’s a knock-out.
Ok, I hope that’s enough not too horrible stuff! Sending love to all of you.
Lindsay/LL
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Congratulations on the 2nd printing and the magazine! Pre-ordered both xoxo