Happy Belated Independence Day everyone!!
Well, I'm guessing a lot of people are too overstuffed from food dyed (or naturally) red, white, and blue to really notice, but since it's been over a month since the last post I thought it was somewhat worth mentioning. Haha.
Anyway, I hope everyone's been pretty engrossed in their summer reads (I found it quite novel - pun intended - that I now have time to read EVERYTHING I WANT to read), but if you have a little more time and a little over $10 to spare (it's on sale right now at
Amazon.com), you can support SAIC's writing faculty Jesse Ball by buying his new novel
The Curfew. Jesse was one of my professors during my sophomore year at SAIC, and he taught a writing workshop called "Slotted Wooden Box". It was kind of surreal yet entertaining, because he made the workshop sound like an embarkment of self-discovery or something. He'd also come late to class and excuse himself by telling stories of how he'd come across a person lying on the ground as if they were unconscious, but since he told it too many times I kind of suspected him of telling tales. Not that anyone called him out on it, because it was a writing workshop class. And telling stories is what he's paid to do.
Anyway. To be honest, I wish I could say I've read
The Curfew, but because I haven't I won't pretend that I have and blurb a paraphrased version of
another summary I've read online. So check it out for yourselves! And if you do read it, let me know whether Jesse lives up to expectations or not.
- Nicola
