The Mumpsimus

Tempest and I spent the day at the Brooklyn Book Festival , mostly just wandering around harrassing various vendors. I finally got to meet Hannah Tinti, editor of One Story , in person, and she told me about the Save the Short Story project , and even got a picture of me reading Calvin Baker's "Dominion" , a very fine story indeed. We also got to meet Tom Roberge of A Public Space , another person I'd exchanged plenty of emails with, but had not yet encountered in person. I convinced Tempest to subscribe, which was one of my better accomplishments of the day. There are only a few magazines I really wouldn't want to be without for even one issue, and A Public Space is one such magazine. Gavin Grant and Jed Berry manfully manned the Small Beer Press table. Tempest and I had discussed the fact that there haven't been any good, physical literary fights recently -- plenty of internet flamewars and such, but nobody actually punching somebody out -- and so we...