Okay, so my iPhone is not infallible taking pictures. The above - in case you can't tell - is a photo of Steve Lopez giving his acceptance speech for his award for The Soloist - taken at the PEN USA’s Literary Award dinner last night. One of my fellow judges, May-lee Chai, was also there and it was wonderful to finally meet her in person after a summer of emailing back and forth about the books we were judging. (She took the much better photo of Steve Lopez below.)
I love writers; I always feel like I’ve found my true community when I’m surrounded by people who spend their days alone facing the same demons I face everyday at my computer. (R. kept saying how loud it was at the dinner and I told him, Well, we don’t get out much and we’re really excited to see each other.) Steve Lopez was eloquent and funny and serious in his acceptance speech. And maybe my photo got blurred cause I had tears in my eyes.
Yes! I love that man!
Posted by: elizabeth | December 03, 2009 at 10:48 PM