"Mothra" over at Storyville!

I am so pleased that darling Mothra is being featured this week on Storyville.

It's a subscription service for people who love short stories. Details here.

Chronogram Review

Lovely review from Jana Martin in Chronogram.

"This is the best use of PID in a short story I've ever seen. Actually, it may be the only use I've ever seen, but you'd be hard pressed to find a better one." 

I love that one of the tags is 'windex'.

Jacket Copy (L.A. Times) with Carolyn Kellogg!

Here's the link.


It's been a great week in my old stomping grounds.

On the radio with Watt from Pedro

What a great morning on the Pride of Cucamonga  with brother Mike Watt.

Here's me and brother John, pre-sunburn:

It was nice to meet Skipper Jeff and brother Matt:

We got a great tour of the LA Harbor. Saw sea lions, freighters loaded up with containers ("cans"), tugboats ("tractors"), some crazy ship that ferries commercial satellites to the equator and launches them into space. 

I learned that only tourists say "Cabree-yo Beach." It's Cabrillo, with a hard L.

And it was real honor to join in the spiel on the Watt From Pedro radio show. Link here:

 http://twfps.com/pages/show.php?sid=364

I tried to flog my West Coast readings (see "Events"), but I'm a rookie, so I forgot to bring along a list of people I'm reading with. 

Let's call this post "Media."

Review in Publishers Weekly.

Interview with Tobias Carroll of Vol. 1 Brooklyn--cool site.

Interview with novelist, cartoonist, librarian, and great question-asker Sara Ryan.

In Stock!

It seems my book is in stock early at Amazon!  Clicky here.

It's also in some stores, in case you want to be a mensch and go to a store. Oblong, City Lights, Powell's, Spoonbill & Sugartown, McNally Jackson, NYU bookstore, Brazos, others--all of them will have a few copies on hand by week's end.

Showing Off

Check out these BLURBS!

"Mimi Lipson writes in a plainsong, just-the-facts style that somehow delivers her footage in high definition. Her characters inhabit a world that is beneath them, a world in which they are stuck, with a lot of grace and stupidity. She is a master of making you very comfortable and secure, warm and cozy while she throws your shoes under the house and drives off in your car.

—GARY PANTER

“Mimi Lipson is a natural. The thorny relations between couples and between parents and children are captured with remarkable precision and understanding. Sharply composed, gracefully written, these stories reveal again and again not only what’s so funny and so sad about human longings and imperfections but also what is beautiful about them.”

—SIGRID NUNEZ

“Mimi Lipson writes with dazzling offhand brilliance. There is a generosity to these stories, a kind of tenderness really, that is rare and thrilling to find. She not only shines a light on this secret world of cranks and lonely-hearts, but also allows us to find our place among them.”

—JENNY OFFILL

"A scintillating collection full of wonderfully observed details. Mimi Lipson is a fabulous stylist."

—HA JIN

“This is Lipson’s classless utopia, in which even fools are suffered gladly so long as they are lively and authentic fools. Her language is clean, her observations clever and sure, and her protagonists generous of spirit. This wise, compassionate book is also a lot of fun to read.”

—BONNIE JO CAMPBELL

Check out this BOOK JACKET COPY!