Tom DeLay's head on a stick

I have nothing to say about Tom DeLay, other than the requisite woohoo, but I couldn't resist that headline.

I heard on KPFA this morning my friend Sara Miles, who is up for a Northern California Book Award at tomorrow's ceremonies for co-editing Directed By Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan.

I'll be at the ceremonies to cheer on Sara and Katia, who is nominated in the fiction category. Since Wm. T. Vollmann lives in Sacramento, she's up against NBA winner Europe Central, but I see her as the local favorite.

From Sunday, an interview with Orhan Pamuk in the Guardian. You know, it's not just that he was a near-martyr to Turkish xenophobic nationalism -- his 2004 novel Snow was really great.

William T. Vollmann, Northern California Book Awards,Sara Miles