December 4th, 2008 / 12:35 am
 Author Spotlight

SPOT-CHECK: Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a Postcard)

POSTCARD #122: GROWING UP DEAD

This shit is badass and I am not even kidding at all.

This shit is badass and I am not even kidding at all.

Peter Conners was born September 11, 1970 in a small town called America. He grew up in the suburbs with his three siblings. His dad put on a tie and went to work while his Mom stayed home. The family house was on a cul de sac. Peter started writing on his own in high school. He started doing it one day and never stopped. After he finishes a project, he switches genres and writing becomes new again, which means he’s also experiencing the world differently. Peter met Karen in high school and they first dated when they were 15. They dated off-and-on for the next 13 years. They went to different schools and sometimes lived in different cities, but they were never truly apart. In addition to Karen, Peter fell in love with the Grateful Dead. He went from being a fan to a Deadhead and followed the Grateful Dead on tour, selling sundry, and traveling around wherever. The music still gets him off every time he listens to it. Peter and Karen got married 10 years ago. She is a clinical psychologist specializing in children and now they have three children of their own: Whitman (after Walt), Max (just because), and Kane (after Karen’s mother’s maiden name). Peter lives in Rochester, NY, where he works as an editor and is in charge of marketing for BOA Editions. Next spring, he will publish his third book, a memoir—Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead.

Not by Michael Kimball, but also potentially of interest is the following:

I remembered this book as having Postcards in the title, and by the time I found out what it actually was I had spent too much time looking for it not to use what I found, despite its basically not being related at all.

I remembered this book as having "Postcards" in the title, and by the time I figured out what it actually was I had spent too much time looking for it not to use what I found, and for whatever it's worth one of the essays in it is actually about The Grateful Dead.

8 Comments

  1. December 4th, 2008 / 4:56 am Shya—

      You should link to the sidebrow anthology.

  2. December 4th, 2008 / 12:56 am Shya—

      You should link to the sidebrow anthology.

  3. December 4th, 2008 / 5:18 am gena—

      michael kimball is pretty amazing

  4. December 4th, 2008 / 1:18 am gena—

      michael kimball is pretty amazing

  5. December 4th, 2008 / 1:48 pm Justin Taylor—

      the Sidebrow anthology of _______? If it’s Grateful Dead stuff I”m already sold. Link?

  6. December 4th, 2008 / 9:48 am Justin Taylor—

      the Sidebrow anthology of _______? If it’s Grateful Dead stuff I”m already sold. Link?

  7. December 4th, 2008 / 3:14 pm pr—

      is that sharon tate?

  8. December 4th, 2008 / 11:14 am pr—

      is that sharon tate?