AWP 2018 Tampa: Featured Speakers

Keynote Speaker:

GEORGE SAUNDERS

Among the Featured Presenters are some very familiar names:

• Rick Barot
• Jeffrey Eugenides
• Marie Myung-Ok Lee
• Claire Messud
• Aimee Nezhukumatahil
• Sigrid Nuñez
• Mary Ruefle
• Karen Tei Yamashita

She has loved George Saunders ever since Civilwarland in Bad Decline. She remembers ugly crying after reading one story, the one about the wavemaker. She has not yet read Lincoln in the Bardo but it is definitely on her list. (Which, at the rate she’s been reading these days, means she probably won’t get to it until next year. At the soonest.)

Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.

Out of This World 2: The Garden

This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is OUT OF THIS WORLD.

Stepping into her garden is like stepping into another world.

There are six steps from the back door to the ground. Self took the first picture standing on the top step.

The garden is rectangular in shape. To the left is a small courtyard that she bricked over, about 20 years ago. She used to have an apple tree there. It died. She used to have geraniums and camellias. All gone. There is one wee clematis that she remembers planting three years ago. A few weeks ago, it started to put out green shoots. Every day since then, it has put out more and more leaves.

Backyard, 2 March 2018

Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.