self-congratulatory

Shit, I'm putting this on my CV. So I was googling myself because there might be a review of GG coming out that I'm a bit anxious to see, and I see that Slapping Clark Gable, which appeared in Make magazine, was selected as a "Notable" essay of 2010 in Best American Essays. Just click on "Notable" and then "Z," and my name's there. I had no idea the essay was submitted for consideration - thanks Make magazine!

It is, I should add, a VERY long list of notables. Whatever, it's been a bad couple of days. I'm totally taking it. And I fucking love that essay. It's the one I'm playing with turning into a book as soon as I write more fiction and lift my interior ban on essay-writing post-Heroines. Thanks to Kathleen Rooney for asking me if I wanted to write an essay for their Myth issue, because otherwise I wouldn't have written it!

up-updates

Chicago-landed people: The marvelous Suzanne Scanlon is a finalist for the Guild Complex Prose Award. Be there tomorrow night, 7:30pm, the Chopin Theater, to watch her read from her short story and vote for her!

Southern California-oriented people: I am typing away on my talk for CalArts, which I think at this moment is 3 hours long. I will be somehow trying to execute reading from O Fallen Angel, Green Girl, and Heroines, while being semi-coherent about something. I am there Thursday night. And then also, reading with the magnificent Kate Durbin Saturday at 5pm at Skylight Books. We are reading at an early-bird special time but I am excited. Although this morning I checked the weather in Los Angeles and I was going to wear a wonderful crazy dress in some way to try to come close to the unparalleled fashion performances of Kate, but you know what, it's going to be too fucking cold. One of the two rotating tops I keep on wearing for readings, then.