Courtney Maum

Bruce Jay Friedman on bathrobes and Dan Brown

AS: What’s an example of a pedestrian sentence?

BJF: I like to know what’s going on and what pop culture is once in a while, so I read The Da Vinci Code. I was reading along and I came to a sentence where the hero is in a hotel room and he dons a bathrobe. There’s no particular reason but I said, “OK, let him don a bathrobe.” It was like a king donning his raiment. Then twenty pages later he dons another bathrobe. I said, “If he dons one more fucking bathrobe I’m out of here.”

(From an interview between Amy Sorn and Bruce Jay Friedman in “Always Apprentices,” out now from The Believer)

“Eat them, I don’t know: John Mayer’s Guide to Foraging”

I have a new humor column running with the DC-based literary magazine, Barrelhouse. I think it’s funny, but I’m biased.

http://www.barrelhousemag.com/eat-them-i-dont-know-john-mayers-guide-to-foraging-by-courtney-maum/

Le Missing Page

To the wonderful literary citizens who bought my story, “Notes from Mexico” from The Cupboard, here is a link to the missing page 24. I believe new versions will be shipped to people who already purchased, and to current subscribers. Thank you again! http://www.thecupboardpamphlet.org/Maumpage24.pdf