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Blogging = book deals
On my real website I've recently posted links to a couple stories about people scoring book deals off their blogs ( Read more... ) -
Boston Legal
They preempted my Boston Legal tonight to for live coverage of the Queensboro Bridge tram stuck in the air midway between Manhattan and Roosevelt Island. If that sounds like an hour of a different angles of a tram relentlessly not moving while TV anchors mindlessly patter away about how nothing's going on, you'd be right on target. Y'know, maybe if ( Read more... ) -
The beginning of an essay I am writing that will change the world
We are the Dead:
How James Joyce Wrote Short Fiction So Well, He Ruined it for a Century
Friends! Readers! Anglophones! Lend me your eyes. I come to praise Joyce, then to bury him. Specifically, I wish to praise one book, Dubliners, a collection of short stories so monumental that the entirety of the form in English has yet to crawl out from its ( Read more... ) -
Literary Workshop Fiction cont.
Alright, let's get down to brass tacks ( Read more... ) -
The genre of literary fiction
I was going back over my last rewrite of the Echidnaid, and then I was reading this really good story that leads off the 2005 edition of the Story Quarterly anthology, as story called Measures of Sorrow by Jacob M. Appel ( Read more... ) -
Badass movies I've seen recently
Puzzlehead ( Read more... ) -
Acid reflux
My acid reflux has gotten bad enough to cause esophagitis. Which hurts ( Read more... ) -
Natalie
If she hasn't seen this yet, I'll consider it a fulfillment of my previous post obligation to browniegirl322
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The New York Times' new Science Fiction Column
is badass.
The column:
But what truly shames me is that I cannot turn to any of these people, or to my friends, or to you, and say: Whether you read books because you have a genuine, lifelong passion for literature or because a feisty woman in Chicago tells you to - you should pick up this new work of science fiction I just finished reading, ( Read more... )