Not satisfied with the foregoing star treatment, Popimage has added on re-runs of its past reviews of three of my books: Stuck Rubber Baby; Wendel All Together; and The Swimmer With a Rope In His Teeth. Thank you Tim Fish, Ed Mathews, Scott, and Benjamin Russell for treating me like royalty this week. (And thanks also to Alonso Duralde, the Arts & Entertainment Editor at The Advocate, for making sure that an advance plug for "My Hypnotist" made it into last Saturday’s edition of the magazine’s online version.)

Meanwhile my project of the moment is designing the poster for an upcoming production by the Mill City Productions, a community theatre troupe here in North Adams.One-act plays by Harold Pinter ("The Dumb Waiter"), Eugene Ionesco ("The Bald Soprano"), and Jean-Paul Sartre ("No Exit") are being combined in an evening of absurdism sure to leave all present wobbling giddily down Main Street afterwards in search of safe existential ground to stand on. I’ll show it to you once I’m finished.