"The Baby Can Sing"

And maybe even dance. If I had a baby, that's the kind of baby I'd want. After giving her a bath in the kitchen sink, while the fog lifted over the ocean, I'd tuck a towel around her waist and teach her the fox-trot. I'd watch her tiny feet, like pink seashells, trip lightly across the kitchen counter.

The baby's got rhythm. No "Itsy-Bitsy Spider" for her. She croons "Ole Man
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—Judith Slater, from The Baby Can Sing & Other Stories

Lia Purpura is interviewed in Orion.

The Lambda Literary Foundation has awarded Brian Leung its Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize.

T Fleischmann's Syzygy, Beauty is reviewed in the Star Tribune.

05-20-2012
You Have Given Me a Country

Brown Hotel 16th floor, Gallery 335 W Broadway Louisville, KY 40202
5:00 pm Reading from Same Sun Here (with Silas House) Part of the "Celebration of Recently Published Books by Faculty" at the Spalding University Festival of Contemporary Writing


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