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December 13, 2010August 1, 2019 - Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Good Old NeonLeaks: Transparency in Politics and Literature

The WikiLeaks story is dramatic on so many levels, with a character at center stage, Julian Assange, worthy of Shakespeare:…

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November 16, 2010August 1, 2019 - Books, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Only a Loose Stevens Connection

I’ll be the first to admit I’m not playing with a full deck—mine’s missing the eight of clubs and the…

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November 15, 2010February 23, 2019 - Books, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Spawn of Stevens

A monster is known by its spawn.  Or that’s one way we know a monster, at least, and few presences…

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July 14, 2010June 4, 2020 - Books, Reading, Review, Science Fiction, Writing

Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Part 1

When I set out to blog this year’s Hugo shortlisted novels, I imagined something conventional like a separate post on…

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June 16, 2010March 8, 2019 - Uncategorized, Writing

Two Texts for Bloomsday, by William Walsh

Below are two pieces derived from James Joyce’s collected letters. The first one plays on a comment from Ezra Pound…

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May 13, 2010March 4, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by John Domini

“And more than once, in their middle years, she and King Shahryar had pretended in bed that her life was…

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May 10, 2010March 6, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Alexandra Chasin

“Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.” How is the question posed by any simile,…

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May 8, 2010March 3, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Matt Bell

“It was like looking at a rock pile and trying to imagine an avalanche.” —from Guide, by Dennis Cooper  …

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May 5, 2010March 3, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Lance Olsen

  RHETORIC   The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do…

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May 5, 2010March 3, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Ken Sparling

“There was a wall.”   This is the first sentence of THE DISPOSSESED by Ursula K. Le Guin, and the…

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