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August 23, 2011August 23, 2011 - Uncategorized

Using Viktor Shklovsky

[This post began as a response to some comments made by Douglas Storm on Amber’s most recent post.] The name…

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March 4, 2011March 4, 2011 - Uncategorized

Food as Device

Anybody who knows me knows this passage. I am constantly quoting it: [H]eld accountable for nothing, life fades into nothingness.…

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June 28, 2010December 29, 2011 - Uncategorized

Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 6

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 7 | Part 8…

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February 22, 2010May 19, 2012 - Uncategorized

Tiny Shocks Revisited (A Continuing Criticism of James Wood’s How Fiction Works)

Earlier today John pointed toward Nigel Beale’s cleverly-titled criticism of my post “Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James…

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January 31, 2010May 19, 2012 - Uncategorized

Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James Wood’s How Fiction Works

[Update: As if this post weren’t long enough, there’s now a Part 2.] On January 22, I read Shya Scanlon’s…

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