Kathleen Rooney of Rose Metal Press comes to stay

Last night Kathleen Rooney took the super-cheap Megabus ($8 roundtrip! hear that, Sam Pink? eight-frickin-dollars!! way cheaper than taking the train to Kalamazoo or wherever and having Barry drive you the rest of the way. I'm just sayin'.) in from Chicago to read from her new memoir, Live Nude Girl. Kathleen Rooney is a woman of many hats (as my Papa Jack used to say). She's a poet, a memoirist, coeditor (alongside Abigail Beckel) of Rose Metal Press, and, she used to pose nude (hence the title of her book: LIVE NUDE GIRL). This week she was on NPR's Talk of the Nation and for the past few months she's been on a book tour with our good friend, Kyle Minor. And last night a man brought her a calendar full of nude men and their strategically placed cats, of which said man was one! How brilliant is that? And don't you want one? Uh huh. I know you do.

-ee

Comments

[barry]

sucks i had too miss this.

i miss all the good shit.

[Dan Wickett]

Don't worry, Barry. I'm pretty sure that calendar is available to order online somewhere.