Sunday, June 12, 2005
Panic in Milwaukee
Bostonians and Washingtonians! I'll be reading with Kevin Smokler at a bookstore near you next month -- at Harvard Book Store on July 7th, and Politics and Prose on July 8th, to be exact.
Kevin's new anthology Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times has hit the stores -- you can see Kevin's running commentary and tour info here -- and among some very fine pieces in the book is this wonderful bit by Tom Bissell that pinpoints the weirdly associative nature of childhood memory:
"I think I believed that only Milwaukee had Space Invaders. To this day, the word Milwaukee floods my mind with involuntary images of dive-bombing amoebas and digital bulwarks slowly annihilated by enemy-insect offensives..."
Kevin's new anthology Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times has hit the stores -- you can see Kevin's running commentary and tour info here -- and among some very fine pieces in the book is this wonderful bit by Tom Bissell that pinpoints the weirdly associative nature of childhood memory:
"I think I believed that only Milwaukee had Space Invaders. To this day, the word Milwaukee floods my mind with involuntary images of dive-bombing amoebas and digital bulwarks slowly annihilated by enemy-insect offensives..."
