When I was young, growing up on a council estate, I saw older women as food shopping machines. There were no supermarkets so they visited ten different shops until they could carry no more and their only pleasure was to bump into someone in a similar position for a chat before going home to cook ...
Yes, we are here now, not able to go to Taos, because that day (March 29) I give a reading in Savannah, at something called AWP (Associated Writing Programs). After that Atlanta (no reading), New Orleans (no reading), Dallas (!) (Southern Methodist University, reading April 5–6) Houston (a whole ...