Fall for the Book

Responding to a desperate email, I met the lovely Katy for a reading at the Johnson Center at George Mason. As part of Fall for the Book, Four writers, all graduates of Mason's MFA program in writing were reading excerpts from their work. I enjoyed it. We arrived late and missed the first reading. The second reading was a group of poems inspired by ancient anatomical art. Some of it was really good. Finally, two novelists, Andrew Wingfield and Steve Amick read from their novels. Good Stuff.

Bennett Elliott and Camila Jones were at the reading. It was good to hang out with writers. There we were, a third of our ENGL 497: Advanced Nonfiction Class. The conversation started with literature and writing, but soon digressed to Lewis Grizzard's UGA joke, and a riff on the Yngwie Malmsteen of the washboard.

We also saw a friend who was back at school taking a the single class he needed to graduate. It seems the undergraduate advisor miscounted his upper level English Credits. Can you say that sucks?

"That dog will bite you."