John Dufresne

 . . . or are you just happy to see me? Chamil Guadaramma can stuff 75 bottles of body lotion in his pants. This unimaginative Nebraskan stuffed ladies panties in his. Hans Kurt Kubus stuffed 44 lizards down his pants. Three shirts.

Here's an interview with me and Mary Bonina at the February Cervena Barva Press website.  (Photo by Elizabeth Kortlander)

Bill Watterson does his first interview in fifteen years.

J. D. Salinger has died. The Times obit here. "I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetary. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.” Here's a piece from the Guardian on Salinger's 90th birthday last year. And here is the heartbreaking story "For Esme--with Love and Squalor."  (thanks to Tom in Lehigh Acres)

Howard, activist, historian, professor, voice of the Left, Howard Zinn has died. The Guardian takes note. And so does Daniel Ellsberg.