Sunday glove box
reading and listening
Welcome to the Sunday post. What’s Mommy’s El Camino? Read about it here.
Look, it’s been a TIME. I’m trying to keep to a routine of visiting the ocean once a week and just watching people go by. Please put your feet up and relax into some reading and listening material.
A new mini-interview is coming up on December 14th.
If you missed it last week, here’s another opportunity to catch up with the most recent EXIT INTERVIEW—part 2 of 2 will appear this coming Thursday. December 7th.
You know what I look forward to every Sunday? The Trend Report™ by Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick! This is my favorite read every week because not only is Kyle smart, funny, and connecting dots for me, it offers numerous portals and rabbit hole potentials for me to pursue. It’s FREE (what a gift!) but you can offer support via Ko-Fi (and I do, and I hope you do, too).
Another newsletter I support, have linked to before, and will link to now is How to Cure A Ghost by Fariha Róisín. More specifically, the latest essay “On Making Art During Genocide.”
Listening lately:
The podcast Death Panel, most recently the episodes “Taking Back the Library w/ Mariame Kaba & Melissa Gira Grant,” “Refusing Genocide w/ Rasha Abdulhadi,” and “Reflections with Naomi Klein.”
Classy with Jonathan Menjivar, most recently the episode “Am I A Classhole?”
We will announce the date and time of the postponed Zoom conversation with Vickie Vertíz and Jessica Ceballos y Campbell soon!
For paid subscribers, FRONT SEAT OFFICE HOURS will come back in January, March, and then to be determined. It’s an hour where we meet up via Zoom to do a co-writing session, cameras on or off. A quick check-in, a quick Q & A if there are A’s, it’s a little window of writing time in community.
Coming up in February and March: ART TALKS. Each ART TALK will feature a writer/artist giving a short lecture with slides about their influences, their artistic lineage, how they came to be the artist they are. I’ll announce the first two ART TALK lecturers soon. This is a little dream of mine that came from attending art talks with visual artists when I was teaching at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. I’m asking people I admire greatly to participate and I pay them a modest honorarium. Your attendance via Zoom is free. More details to come.
Submissions for EXIT INTERVIEWS will reopen in 2024, date to be announced.
Today we planted a bitter orange tree in the parkway in front of our house. It feels like a tiny gesture toward beauty, commitment.
May you experience peace and ease, however momentary, in such a disturbing, unstable time. Take care, everyone. xo