Dear Friends,

This is to remind you, in case I have forgotten, that I do have a new book out--RIGHT LIVELIHOODS: THREE NOVELLAS--available from Little, Brown and Co. at better bookstores.

And my band, the Wingdale Community Singers, is playing at the Living Room, Lower East Side, NYC, on 6/30, at, I believe, the completely reasonable hour of 8PM. We really need people to come out to this show, because there's some kind of requirement at the Living Room as to numbers of attendants, else you shall never play there again. I guess. Anyway, if you're thinking of seeing one Wingdales gig in 2007, this is the one, and anyway we are going to disappear and make our new record for a few months, so this will be the last time to see us for a while.

Thanks for listening!

Hey Everyone,

This is to alert you to:

two readings: one this Thursday (6/7) at Pete's Candy Store at 7:30 PM, W'burg, Bklyn, and one next Thursday (6/13) at Barnes and Noble Astor Place, at 7:30, the only events in the non-tour for my collection of novellas, RIGHT LIVELIHOODS, to be published on June 6, by Little, Brown and Co.

Also:

two music events:

1) "A Powerpoint Presentation in Song on Diverse Subjects Arrived at 
According to Chance Procedures" 
Nina Katchadourian & Rick Moody 
Proteus Gowanus 
543 Union Street 
http://www.proteusgowanus.com/ for directions 
Sunday, June 10, 7:00 p.m. ($5)
 
2) The Wingdale Community Singers 
The Living Room 
154 Ludlow (between Stanton and Rivington) 
June 30th 
8 pm

And if you're a glutton for a certain kind of punishment, Nina Katchadourian and I will also be playing one song at a celebration of the music of Guided By Voices, at Don Pedro's in East W'burg, Bklyn, on 6/9. The event also gives a shout out to the excellent book on this subject (GBV) by Marc Woodworth, in that 33 1/3 series. You should all read it, if you haven't already.

For about a year, I've been working, very irregularly, on a podcast called 18:59. My collaborator in the project is Michael Hearst, a very talented musician and member of the band One Ring Zero. Since we both are pretty busy it's rare that we get it together, but as of yesterday we managed to complete a big two-part episode, containing travel stories from Jonathan Ames, Nelly Reifler, Fiona Maazel, Ann Cooper, and others. You can find this podcast at the One Ring Zero website, which is thus: http://www.oneringzero.com/?page_id=52.