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The Girl With the Cake: Thirty Years Later
At work this morning, a customer asked me if we had a copy of Richard Brautigan’s story collection, Revenge of the Lawn (1971, Simon & Schuster). It’s a book that can be hard to find, but luckily we had a copy. It just hadn’t made it out to the shelf yet. While we waited for…
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When Did August Become the Busiest Month Ever?
This is one of the craziest Augusts I’ve had. It just seems like a ton of stuff was happening every week. Here were some of the highlights (and there’s still a couple of days left before September!): B. Frayn and I had a long overdue dinner with the wonderful Cheryl Strayed and her husband, Brian…
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Teacher Man
Hey friends, Just a quick update to let you know that I’ve got some teaching action coming up. If you want to hang out and listen to me jabber a little and do some writing and stuff like that, please sign up! First off, I’m doing this flash memoir class at the Crow Arts Manor…
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Who Is B. Frayn Masters?
B. Frayn Masters is reading at the Smalldoggies reading series tomorrow night at the Blue Monk. It’s been a while since she’s done a reading, what with all her time being occupied as producer of the super-popular live shows, Entertainment For People and Back Fence (which she also co-hosts), freelance writing, and getting married to…
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Sampsell VS Gandhi!
Hey y’all, the Entertainment For People show at The Woods was awesome. Laura Gibson’s playing and singing on my stories, The Soul Singer (a new story!) and Control (a reworked version of Safety from Beautiful Blemish) were nuanced, beautiful, and haunting. I hope to see a good crowd at Seattle’s show. You can see other…
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The Laura Gibson Connection
I’m excited to reveal that the secret musical guest that will accompany me at the Entertainment For People shows this Wednesday (Portland) and Friday (Seattle) is Laura Gibson. The acclaimed and beloved Portland singer-songwriter has released music through Hush and has played shows with The Decemberists, Rocky Votolato, and Sean Lennon! We’re going to try…
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The Gray Shadow
Hey friends, What’s been going on? I’ve had a couple of things pop up recently and I wanted to share them with you, but first–a few serious words about facial hair… I stay fairly clean cut. I shave every other day usually. If I don’t, the grayness of my stubble threatens to overshadow my face…
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Friday the 13th: Our New Lucky Day
Hi friends, Today is a really exciting day here at Sampsell/Future Tense headquarters. Actually an exciting week in general. It started off with two readings–Monday night at Powell’s I read at the Plazm Magazine anniversary party. Tuesday night, I read at a kick-butt Smalldoggies reading at the Blue Monk. Smalldoggies also published this chapter from…
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