Litsa Dremousis's Blog: "Altitude Sickness" - Posts Tagged "mountain-climbing"

I won't name him or her, but I'm thinking about this person's loved ones. Platitudes can't resurrect someone. For the rest of their lives, they'll live w/out their loved one, whose death was wholly preventable.

Same story; different day.

Matthew Simmons recently interviewed me for the lit journal Hobart about how you build around the new giant hole in your life. Also, how you write about it:

http://www.hobartpulp.com/web_feature...

..."Altitude Sickness"; my publisher, the Instant Future division of Future Tense Books; my amazing editor Matthew Simmons; and yours truly.

Excerpt:

"The book is a howl of pain, a bellow of grief, and a funny-sad Irish funeral for a lover and friend, combining deep wisdom about mortality with an almost naive sensibility."

The entire piece by The Stranger's Paul Constant:

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/arch...