Our one little experience with the International Festival Of Authors came last night as we went to see Stanzi’s friend Rebecca moderate a discussion about short stories. The participants were Lisa Moore, Daniel Alarcón, Melissa Bank and Craig Davidson. I bought Davidson’s book (I picked it up off the table, flipped it open and read a paragraph describing dogs tearing each other apart and figured, ‘how bad can it be?’) and got him to sign it.

We needed food and beer at this point, so Stanzi, Nellie, Rebecca and I walked over to C’est What where we encountered the human foghorn, chit-chatted over greasy snacks and spicy burgers, and kept Stanzi up past her bedtime.