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Slow Writing?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on January 25, 2012 | 13 Comments »

Would that there were no other kind. Sara Levine, author of the fantastic Treasure Island!!!, was interviewed in the Globe and Mail Monday. The article seems to treat “slow writing” (a “cute” coinage a la “slow food” — fuck) as quaint, eccentric. Disaster!!! I want to say (though I am in complete agreement with what [...]

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Alternative Values in Small-Press Culture

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on May 19, 2010 | 70 Comments »

This follows J. A.’s post here, which sprang out of conversation here; it’s also motivated by Greg’s recent post about Rilke. In all three places, I’ve been criticizing some “dominant values” in US culture and small-press culture: There’s nothing inherently wrong with celebrity. There’s nothing inherently wrong with youth. There’s not even anything necessarily wrong [...]

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Guest Post, by Jamie Iredell: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on April 29, 2010 | 10 Comments »

“In Wildness is the preservation of the world.” —Henry David Thoreau, in “Walking”

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