The urologist asks me what my memoir is about. I say, "You'll have to read it." He smiles. "Ok, mister international man of mystery, time for your prostate exam and ultrasound of your penis." Never try to upstage a urologist.
I don't know about you, but I am just SO relieved to know that I don't have to worry about COVID anymore. When I saw him out on that balcony, I got chills. And a dry cough. But I'm not worried. Our president really "gets" COVID. Maybe I can get it, too.
On the occasion of South Florida reopening, a jampacked new edition of the Florida Book Review is up, including one by me of a wacky look at this wackiest of states: https://t.co/KWz0Y35GGF
FIU M.F.A. @ Miami Book Fair tonight (THE PORCH, northwest corner of N.E. 2nd Ave. and N.E. 3rd St.)
6 p.m.: John Dufresne hosts First Draft.
7 p.m.: Noir at the Bar with @LynneBarrett, Mike Creeden, Lauren Doyle Owens, Hector Duarte, Jr., and Joe Clifford.
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