Gerard Jones has started a new blog about the struggles he's experiencing as he writes his new book, THE UNDRESSING OF AMERICA, for FSG. After months of wrestling alone with doubt and procrastination, he's taking a fellow Grotto member's advice and opening up about the process, hoping it will help his own work and also be useful (or at least entertaining) to other writers. As he writes in the first post, "This blog will be the story of how I got here, an exploration of what the book is, a showcase for excerpts, a platform for your comments and advice, a confession of my madness, and, in the end, the vehicle through which the book gets written." It's at http://undressingamerica.blogspot.com.
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The Grotto is pleased to host a new art reception, featuring the paintings of Shirley Hazlett. The reception will be June 5th, 6-9 p.m. The Southern Wine Group, importers of boutique and artisanal wines from Argentina and Chile, will be pouring.
Shirley Hazlett is a contemporary painter who will be showing fluid, grid-based paintings, referencing the land, horizon, and sky. Shirley's paintings have been exhibited at the California Museum for Women, History and the Arts, the Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, and the San Francisco ArtInstitute, where she currently is completing an MFA in Art, painting.
Join us June 5th for the art reception!
The super-informative Grotto Notes didn't go out this month because there's some stuff going on with our list server. But you can still read them here.
