Robert Olen Butler in town

Aargh! According to today's newspapers, Robert Olen Butler was in town last week to give a talk at the National Library, and I had no idea! Why do they have to report events like these after they've taken place? If they'd put an announcement in the newspapers, I'd certainly have attended; or perhaps they did, and I missed it completely. Darn it! Visiting writers need to have more publicity here.

Robert Olen Butler! Damn, damn.

I loved his work on decapitated characters, Severance.

Someone's head should roll - compensation for the folks who missed out on this - or perhaps it should be my own, if I'd missed any mention of his talk in the papers.