Wednesday, July 31, 2013

The Next Step on Desire Lines: The Page Proofs!


The page proofs for my new short story collection, Desire Lines: Stories of Love and Geography have arrived from Oberon Press!

Very interesting to go over the text after several months away from it.  The pub date for the book itself is Nov. 1.  There will be details about the launch later.

Desire lines, urbanists say, are paths that people take whenthey want to go somewhere. They frequently have no relationto the formal layout of roads and sidewalks. They sometimeslead to new places. They are often maps of the heart.

The photo is of such a path, such a "desire line," in the Champs des possibles that got me thinking.