on the periphery of your radar
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino.
Like many people, I’m thinking back to November 2016.
My third book, Bruja, had just come out. A few days before the election I had a book launch at Skylight Books.
And then the election happened.
Angry, disoriented, disturbed, I still went to New York as scheduled to read at the Franklin Park Reading Series a couple of weeks later.
This week there’s that familiar feeling of dread interlaced with the usual anxieties of living right now. This week I’ll be able to share for the first time the three new book covers for Excavation, Hollywood Notebook, and Bruja. I have to laugh—being able to share them this week almost ensures that they’ll get buried under election news. And still, I will be inclined to share them, maybe as a fuck you to the speculation and subterfuge that we are likely to live through this week.
Every week I write here I want to end with a wish for everyone, most especially my readers, and this week is the same. I wish for everyone to feel safe. I wish for everyone to protest how they want and to feel safe in doing so.
Thank you as always for reading. I hope to send you a mid-week newsletter featuring the new book covers and my hope is that it won’t get buried, but will stay on the peripheries of your respective radars, and that you might see it as an offering of hope.
See you on the other side.