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I think that this article over on Guernica was written for me. Without ever reading a lick of Roberto Bolaño, I’ve already been drawn in by the myth of the dead writer; a myth that according to those who knew him, was manufactured by a North American literary machine plugged in to our intense cultural [...]
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Oh how I aspire to someday participate in NaNoWriMo, the month-long online group-quest to write a novel. Every October, the guilt of NOT participating throughout the coming November begins to set in and every November 1st it becomes more difficult to sit idly by. Somehow, however, I will soldier on…
For those of you sitting [...]
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I was reading the FT Weekend Magazine on a flight back from Frankfurt this weekend and came upon a fascinating closing piece about German sociologist Niklas Luhmann, and his use of index cards to map out complex series of thought. I have heard repeatedly of Vladimir Nabokov’s system of using index cards to plot his [...]
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I’ve always loved this poem and now I’ll have a beat to drop to it.
[via The Elegant Variation]
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Riding the elevator up on the way to work today, one of our QA engineers mentioned to me that he had no idea how our team was going to hit a deliverable for Monday. Our devo site is in too much flux to be certain that we will stabilize it in time. Shrugging, I channeled [...]
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George Saunders has written an entertaining short piece for the New Yorker about an Amazon nun and a supposedly gay preacher he catches French kissing in the sacristy. If you don’t question your religious practitioner, it might be time to start.
Now here she was, French-kissing Father X, while Father X pinned her against the black-topped [...]
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This is my first experience reading Vinge and I’m excited by the possibility of picking up a few more of his books. “Rainbows End” opens fantastically, intertwining thoughts on politics, scientific research, psychology and technology into an unholy amalgamation which sets the story cranking. While not quite the frenetic pace of the opening scenes in [...]
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Evidently, Mark Twain went a bit existentialist as he aged and spent the final 20 years of his life working off and on on a story encapsulating some epiphanies related to the dream-like nature of life. What he came up with is a bit darker than most people would probably believe came from Twain.
It’s [...]
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First of all, congratulations to Doris Lessing.
I’ve never read her work before but I’ve been thinking about starting a series of blog posts where I read all of the Nobel Prize winners for Literature and write about the experience. Have any of you read Doris Lessing? Any thoughts on what book I should start with? [...]
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A wonderful series of Ira Glass videos on the art of storytelling:
Note: Just to be clear, I saw this over at “Your Daily Awesome” but I wanted to re-create it for my own readers and archive for my own site
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