The Isabella article is out in the US edition of Esquire… can’t get in touch w John H. Richardson though… I guess I’ll have to try and find it here somewhere. You may remember I had told you on the 3rd of June that he got in touch with me. I guess I can say it now – it was about A Flight Risk…

I’ve been thinking of all the people I haven’t seen in ages- my last 2 years or so has been really seriously messed up and I’ve not seen anyone. Everyone probably hates me now… I had been living in a state of desperate confusion, that’s the best way to describe it. Everything seemed to be just out of reach or would suddenly disappear or would be intertwined with some soul-crunching awfulness… and not just one thing or two, but my whole entire existence was almost literally unbearable. It was like I couldn’t move without something rotten being pelted at me by the universe. The most I could do was stay in and hide or go to Brian’s and stay in and hide! Because of this I’ve missed a few weddings, a birth, a death, a couple books published, new relationships, broken relationships, houses moved… while my friend’s lives were moving on I was trapped in some god-forsaken mire… Then within a matter of weeks every single rotten thing that had been preoccupying my mind for 2 years suddenly disappeared!

Now everything is lovely again.

Friends, I’ve missed you!