this

is raw and emotional and I love it. the rejectionist is my new favorite essay-blogger. we had a conversation about books that she might be posting in a few days, but I feel what she writes about here, sometimes, the sense of blah-blah-blah talking about books we've already written, books we are going to be written, blah-blah-blah. Better to talk about other people's books. When I have been invited to dinner parties (rarely) I go straight to the books, I have conversations instead with the bookshelves. Speaking of which, just booked my tix today for AWP.