Congrats

* An old friend (of both mine and Nate's) has a new book out on Playa del Carmen.

* Carrie Iverson, a student from the first MFA writing class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), is featured in the Chicago Tribune. She has a new exhibit called "Wake" in Brooklyn.

* Three profs from SAIC are listed in the "Lit 50" in New City magazine. James McManus, Rosellen Brown, and Carol Anshaw. Rosellen and Carol were my advisers during my time in the MFA program. They both helped me turn a bunch of scraps of writing into a novel.