Post-Announcement Release—-Drink Up!

by Maureen McLane | Jan-24-2009

Newly informed and energized the crowd returns with vigor to the bar….discussing discussing kibbitzing about all…..and now a fine visit from Eric Miles Williamson, Director of the Board, wearing a spiffy worker’s cap…..Eric notes I am typing quite rapidly: thank you typing teacher from ESM highschool!

What was the first novel fully composed on a typewriter?  One of Mark Twain’s….I forget which…..

Would that you were here, readers: the Bread Pudding looks mighty fine. 

A fine downtown sartorial display here at Housing works—a crimson mink (or faux-mink), a resplendent day-glo green mini-dress, the requisite jeans and boots….....

Will any of my fellow board members bring me a drink? 

Harriet Washington, last year’s winner for Nonfiction, for her book “Medical Apartheid,” looks to be leaving…....

Is this the moment to say YES WE CAN? 

“Alex Ross is famous for what?” asks a visitor to our blogging station: David Varno has satisfied his curiosity: Alex Ross writes on music for the New Yorker, etc etc etc…....

Liz Taylor of the Chicago Tribune and the NBCC Board is getting this blogger a drink!!! Thanks Liz!  and thanks Jennifer Reese too, another fine member of the Board…...

As Baudelaire sd (translated, though not by Pen America, I think): GET DRUNK!  Not that that’s what we’re doing here.

This is one sober crew.