initial post; "My Dreams Out in the Street" by Kim Addonizio

Having created the blog, I'll enter this initial post. It's 9:25 pm and almost midsummer. Outside my window the sky is a deep blue. The sun has gone down after a mainly drizzly and cool day that cleared up in the end, but the stars aren't out yet. Maybe it didn't clear up as much as I thought.

I came down here into my basement office to mess around with the computer after putting down the novel I'm currently reading, "My Dreams Out In the Street" by Kim Addonizio. It's a literary novel about street people in San Francisco, gritty and realistic but romantic as well. And it includes some very nice writing. There is a blurb from Andre Dubus III that starts out "Kim Addonizio writes like Lucinda Williams sings", and the comparison seems apt. I found the book on the "staff recommendations" shelf at a local public library branch.