I’d like to be in San Antonio, but something(s) came up

Photo by Hank Walker, 1958

I won’t be among the litfolk romping in San Antonio this weekend at NCTE, but I’m happy with my alternative plans:

• Browsing the new online repository of photos from LIFE magazine’s archives, which includes the above shot of my current subject, impostor Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr.

• Playing around with the book’s worth of sketches (and then some) that I just received from S.V.T. illustrator Tom Lichtenheld

• Attending the wedding of my middle school and high school literary collaborator J.B. Smith (perhaps someday I’ll post our Sophocles-meets-Three’s Company script, Janetigone)

Wherever you’ll be and whatever you’ll be doing, I hope you enjoy it.