Stacy Horn

I’m doing a lot of radio interviews today. Like everything else I’m doing, it’s fun and scary. I try to prepare, but who knows what they’re going to throw at me. I couldn’t get the words “state-of-the-art” out minutes ago. It felt like an eternity before some approximation of the words came out of my mouth. Ah, to have a fully functional working brain. But three other interviews I did (not radio) went up yesterday. One at Salon, another on the Gotham Center blog, and one on Curbed New York. Thank you Mary Elizabeth Williams, David K. Thomson, and Tobias Carroll!

Meanwhile life goes on. Someone brought a baby bird to the ASPCA yesterday, except we don’t do birds. There was some discussion about what to do with it, it was so tiny, and euthanasia came up!! But thankfully that idea was shot down. A bird rehabber was called, but the day was getting late and I was getting worried about the little guy. So I looked up the details for the Wild Bird Fund, an organization I’d worked with a couple of times with wounded pigeons I’d found, and I gave the information to one of the most sympathetic people there (hi Alessandra!). She authorized my taking the bird there and gave me cab money!

Here he is in the incubator (he’s the one labeled ASPCA of course). Followed by a picture of some cute ducks hanging out on the floor.

It’s pub day for Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York!! Buy it from your favorite bookseller or from: Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, iBooks, Kobo, or Amazon. And now I have to run off to my job at the ASPCA Hospital.

Wish me and my new book luck!

It’s not too late to get tickets to the first event for my new book, a presentation, Q&A and book party hosted Untapped Cities, inside the historic Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea, a New York City landmark located along the Hudson River, on May 16, 6-8pm.

A choir shot similar to the one I posted the other day only this time we’re in better outfits!

My op-ed about closing Riker’s Island is in the New York Daily News today! I’m so proud. It had to be significantly cut down, but the editor did a great job of that. I do have friends in the Department of Correction, and I hope they understand that they are not responsible for the problems of society that resulted in what Rikers has become. They are victims as well and closing Rikers is best for everyone. It hurts us all.

Spotted on the ground on my way to our choir concert last night. We are not alone!

Thanks to Sarah Cords, I have a Q&A in The Millions!! I loved her questions, she really did her homework. It begins with: Stacy Horn defies death by ceaselessly writing books about it.

A perfect start. Thank you so much Sarah!!

We rehearsed with the orchestra last night (I sing with the Choral Society of Grace Church). This is a shot before rehearsal began.

This is from my point of view from the very last row in the back. I actually like it there. As you can see I have a great line of sight. The downside is you are not in the thick of things, surrounded by singers, with harmony all around you. But weirdly, I could hear the altos very well from this position, and they have beautiful lines in the Haydn piece we’re singing.