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Robin McLean

FISH OBITUARIES (RESURRECTED)
 

TOUR BLOG POST #6: The Epicenter

May 20, 2015

THE GATES LIBRARY

ROCHESTER, NY: Re: The Discussion and Reading of Reptile House / how / why we write / create / live / love / suffer / act like wierdos when at first we seem so normal. All this in the room to the left as you enter the Gates Public Library. Ate one banana before for nerves while Mel smoked a secret cigarette. Good crowd. These people had DONE THEIR HOMEWORK, as in had read the reading in advance. Had questions ready. Almost an ambush except that I WROTE "Cold Snap" so if there were any answers,  Read More 
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SINDWINDER BLOG POST #5: Mystic.

May 16, 2015

DRAWBRIGE with COUNTERWEIGHTS

MYSTIC, CONNECTICUT:

Arrived in time for salmon, asparaus and dark chocolate.

Timed it with the drawbridge to make the reading. The drawbridge makes decisions in Mystic.

The Story Pot was waiting on the rug.

What makes a good day?

Good people, a few books, a river.

Jane Percy I'll be back soon for more of your lovely town.

xo

NEXT STOP: The Gates Library in Rochester NY.

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Sidewinder Tour Blog Post #4

May 15, 2015

Jim Shepard at the Odyssey

TOUR BLOG POST #4: S. Hadley, Mass. Yes, I got to read last night with the great JIM SHEPARD who read from his new novel THE BOOK OF ARON at THE ODYSSEY -- across from my old college gates. It was huge a honor and thrill. Jim, as you can see, wore his famous Northwest Airlines outfit!

Thanks Jim and Karen, and Michael Maren for popping in!

Next stop: BANKS SQUARE BOOKS in Mystic, CT TOMORROW, May 16th at 1 pm. See you there Jane Percy.

TOUR NEWS:

TEXAS: Gloria Barragan will be joining the tour in Austin  Read More 
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SINDWINDER BLOG POST #3: LAUNCH

May 7, 2015

Photo by Jim Bates

AMHERST, MASS: Reptile House is officially LAUNCHED. It blasted off from AMHERST BOOKS Thursday night with many many good friends and family in attendance.THANKS FOR COMING EVERYONE. Thanks especially to Nat at Amherst Books, Noy Holland for your kind introduction, Debbie McLean, Kim McLean, and Steve Toebes for putting it together and for Marshall O'Leary and Carlyn O'Leary for making the thing go. Thanks Mom and Dad for making the plane. Thanks Jim Bates for the photo. Thanks Farmer Mike for being bartender -- among other things. Betsy McLean Vielhaber, you were so there in spirit -- xo.

Next stop THE ODYSSEY BOOKSHOP in South Hadleywith the astounding Jim Shepard on May, 14 @7. Read More 
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TOUR BLOG POST #2: REPTILE HOUSE GOES TO BOSTON

May 2, 2015

Imagine this Poster on the HUGE South Station Electronic Billboards


Yes I did it!

Read right underneath the South Station Destinations Board so it looked like LOTS of people were listening.

Had to yell but it was good to yell!

Some people just needed a chair.

Some people asked QUESTIONS.

I ate 2 bananas one half hour before I started since cousin Rob said bananas are natural beta blockers.

Waved at Suzanne Lipsky and Jennifer Donahue. SO HAPPY to see friendly faces. Thanks for coming, S and J!

Got written up by WBUR...First South Station Literary Lunch Break

Next Stop: May 4, 2015 Reading at BROOKLINE BOOKSMITH, Brookline, MA, @ 7 pm.

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TOUR BLOG POST #1

April 11, 2015
Dani Shapiro, Robin Black with Fish Obit's Staff
I saw Dani Shapiro and Michael Maren today at AWP in Minneapolis and they told me to blog the Reptile House Sidewind Across America Tour. Since I always do what they say, I'm starting now. I will be crashing on Sirenlander couches all over America. The list is long, as in... California, here I come, etc.

Tour FELLOW READER Count: (goal = 100 fellow readers)

April 2 / Philyy / TireFire Reading/ Thanks Annie Liontas and Sarah Rose Etter!
1. Kelly Link
2. Colin Barrett
3. Dawn Lonsinger
4. Chris McCreary
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THANK YOU NASHVILLE REVIEW #1

April 1, 2015

Nashville Review, Spring 2015 Issue

Thank you NASHVILLE REVIEW for

1) being the first literary journal to select and publish one of my stories ("Reptile House") way back in 2011, on the same night the Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup, and thereby altering my world and world-view completely and forever.

and

2) publishing today, my first interview about Reptile House .

Thanks also to Michael Carolan , great friend and fellow zombie trainer, for having to experience our long rambling writer-talk conversation, which you recorded for this interview, at least once more than I did, and for making some sense of all that. When Highway for Our God comes out, I own you big time.

6 weeks to blast off!

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THIS WINTER IS MAKING ME CRANKY

February 25, 2015

Winter on Earth

In this post by Secret Guest Blogger Kate C, she gives away a clue about her Mysterious Identity -- ie, her General Geographic Location, ie she does not live in New Mexico or Hawaii --and probes Winter: The Pretty and Pleasant, Joyful New Years Hopes and Resolutions, Snowy Sporting Opportunities and Woolens, Yardsticks, Disappearing Cityscapes, Too Much of a Good Thing, and the Slow Decline from Heaven to Hell with the falling of 100 inches of snow in one month (as in the Northeastern coast of America 2015.)

THIS WINTER IS MAKING ME CRANKY

Winter
Crisp
Brisk
December
Family Read More 
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NEWS FLASH: REPTILE HOUSE HAS ARRIVED

February 22, 2015

BOX OF BOOKS

CAKE

WINE

BALLOONS

BEER

COOKIES

HAPPINESS

DOGS

CATS

PARENTS

SISTERS

NIECES

NEPHEWS

PIZZA
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A GREEK ON GREECE: MEDITATIONS ON ELECTIONS

February 11, 2015
A First 1st for Fish Obit, a worldly and opinionated Opinion post about WORLD EVENTS written by new guest blogger Nick Sampson, movie maker, writer, and Greek, who has something to say about recent elections in his Home Country, as well as Screwing, Angela Merkel, Blame and Disharmony, Unruliness, Nazis, Americans, Self-Deception, Bankruptcy, Starvation, and Ashes.


DERACINATION OF REASON


They say democracy triumphed in Greece the other day. They say democracy triumphed in Europe. The pro-austerity government led by the rightwing New Democracy was ousted in an election that saw the radical left party SYRIZA clinch first place. The once mighty PASOK – the mainstream left party – was reduced to  Read More 
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