Official Author of Unfogged

Surely, you meant this recent radio interview.

You know, for a long time, I thought Billy Collins was a woman.

2: That's 'cause you're a feminist, ben.

I thought Billy Collins was a woman

Good lord. Never heard him read his stuff, huh?

Obviously not. It was only seeing his picture that educated me.

Well, you'll have to listen to him read some of that stuff. Quite a thing.

Um, try his reading of the Lanyard poem, which Garrison Keillor has had him read on A Prairie Home Companion far too often.

To be perfectly frank, I don't really want to listen to him reading his poetry.

I don't blame you.

I'll try to listen to the Markson thing later, but you did know he was old.

Yes, but I didn't know he sounded old. Vigor varies remarkably among like-aged people.

You've got my care meter up now. For some reason I care about Markson. In the sense of caring for. I guess he got under my skin. I'll listen to that tomorrow, but I have a computer fuckup to clean up at the shop for the next two days, so.

A cares-meter, mensura curarum. My face is one.

Ben, apparently there is something called The Waste Books. I did not know that.

Yeah, I had heard.

Looks like you have to leave a trail of crumbs.

My class is reading The Last Novel.

An economical way to teach them about the deaths of many artists.