My Life and Thoughts

Remember how in an earlier post I said that the sad young literary men didn’t supply any recipes to the Muskogee Daily Phoenix, and only the resourceful young literary women came through?  Well, this was not entirely accurate.  The situation, it seems, is more complicated than I thought.

I recently received an email from Melony Carey, author of the combined book-review–recipe column in the abovementioned Phoenix (check out her latest: NASCAR-themed recipes to accompany a novel narrated by a dog belonging to a Formula One racer), to the effect that Guillermo Martínez, former grad student and current writer of math-themed mystery thrillers, had, in fact, contributed a recipe for “almond chicken baked on a bed of salt,” which had been blocked, for reasons yet unexplained, by the Norton anti-spam software.   

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During the three months of its existence, this blog has received over 160 hits from people Googling “Keith Gessen” (image, right, from Gawker), and I feel the time has come to recognize Keith’s fans for the interest they have shown in my life and thoughts. Let me begin by individually thanking the Googlers of the following phrases: keith gessen biography (Washington, D.C.; 8 min., 27 sec.); keith gessen blog (Winooski, VT; 7 min., 20 sec.); and keith gessen crisis (Denver, CO; 4 min. flat).