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“A Very Circuitous Path”
“It was a very circuitous path. It was not very linear–I floundered about for many years. I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn’t know how…
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Internal
The conversation is still raging in the comments section of Lincoln Michel‘s reaction to Reality Hunger: “Reality Boredom: Why David Shields is Completely Right and Totally Wrong.” Why not join the discussion?
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Teenagers from Mars
Peter Bognanni’s first novel mixes punk rock and the wild creativity of Buckminster Fuller into a tender and believable chronicle of teen sorrow.
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The DFW Archive
The other day we reported that the archive of David Foster Wallace had been acquired by the Harry Ransom Center. But what, exactly, “is in the collection?” The New Yorker‘s Book Bench provides some answers (with photos).
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“They’re holding these people hostage to make a political point.”
In response to the Colorado state legislature “passing a law imposing sales tax on all online retailers that sell into the state,” Amazon has “terminated its Associates program.” Not ones to be bullied, the advocacy group ProgressNow Colorado is “calling…
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Noise Pop: The Ghost of a Saber Toothed Tiger
The son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono was due to take the stage any minute, and the venue was still half empty. The bar remained fairly quiet until well past the posted show time of 8pm, and the crowd…
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The Possessed
“I originally wanted to turn this material into a novel or fictionalized stories, but no one was enthusiastic about this, not even my wonderful editor. Publishing it as nonfiction, I stand by it, but it wasn’t my original decision and…
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An Elizabethan Bestiary Retold
An Elizabethan Bestiary: Retold was published by Horse & Buggy Press in 1999, in an edition of just 1000 copies. The book primarily consists of Jeffery Beam’s poems (reworkings of bestiaries found in The Elizabethan Zoo) and Ippy Patterson’s illustrations.
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Dark Green Underbelly
With healthcare reform moving at such a sluggish rate, we’ve all become pretty exasperated by the worsening creases in Washington. In the face of so much disagreement, thank goodness the environmental movement is so unified. Who in their right mind…