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March 12, 2012March 7, 2019 - Books, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Some few thoughts on facticity

  You know the difference between plain old “sci-fi” and “hard science fiction”? One’s boring. Nah. I’m just joking. The…

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February 17, 2012March 7, 2019 - Books, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

How I Wrote Certain of My Books

[In which I elaborate on an earlier post, “Slow Writing?“] In thinking about my earlier contention that writing ought to…

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February 10, 2012March 7, 2019 - Books, Interview, Reading, Uncategorized

Translating the Uncanny Valley

    Terrific interview between Mark Polizzotti and Mark Ford about (re)translating Raymond Roussel’s Impressions of Africa and New Impressions…

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January 28, 2012March 7, 2019 - Books, Uncategorized

Epiphanic Zinger

  [Being a review of Krystal Languell’s Call the Catastrophists*] Personal anecdote followed by utterly shallow pop-culture reference. Sweeping claim…

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January 25, 2012March 7, 2019 - Books, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Slow Writing?

Would that there were no other kind.   Sara Levine, author of the fantastic Treasure Island!!!, was interviewed in the…

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January 12, 2012August 1, 2019 - Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

I Can Read for Miles and Miles: Field Report from the Moby-Dick Marathon

Last weekend I went to the Moby-Dick marathon, an annual event in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where much of the landlubbing…

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January 10, 2012March 7, 2019 - Books, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

The North American Innovation Crash of 1993

  The Ombudsman of the Washington Post has this to say about “innovation”: “I’m wondering, and readers are too, whether…

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December 31, 2011March 7, 2019 - Books, Reading, Uncategorized

A Year of Reading

  I read 203 books in 2011, or, on average, a little more than one book every two days. You…

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December 23, 2011March 7, 2019 - Books, Uncategorized

Dalkey Archive Press

  Until I make my pilgrimage to Champaign, this realtor-walkthrough video of Dalkey Archive’s warehouse (squired by founder John O’Brien,…

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December 15, 2011March 7, 2019 - Books, Uncategorized

That Entrepreneurial Spirit

[Video shamelessly stolen from Shane Jones’s Facebook feed] Of course sometimes the hippie with his feet up on the desk…

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