Lucy Silag has written one of my favorite review sentences to date, in a piece in The Iowa Review:
“What’s important here is that Jamison does not flinch when she slices away the pale skin of her characters and reveals the bloody meat beneath.”
Amazing when someone describes your practice better than you can…
Read the whole review at The Iowa Review.
Thank you, Lucy!
The Gin Closet comes out in paperback this May, which means I’ll no longer have to ask people to spend thirty dollars to buy it. I’ll be doing some west-coast events for the launch. Details forthcoming, but here are the basics:
Saturday, April 30: “Close Portraits” panel at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. 12:30 pm, USC campus.
Monday, May 2: Reading at Village Books, Pacific Palisades, CA, 7:30 pm.
Wednesday, May 4: Reading at Latitude 33, Laguna Beach, CA.
And a reading in Chicago in June (with the lovely and talented Kiki Petrosino)*:
Thursday, June 2: Women and Children First Bookstore.
*Kiki is a good friend from my days at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, author of a gorgeous first book of poems called Fort Red Border. Many of the poems in this book are about Robert Redford, which rocks. Kiki and I have explored the hills of Iowa (yes, they exist) and the sand dunes of the Gobi, but we’ve never done a joint reading. It’s long overdue. More on her (and the reading) closer to the time.