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Mark Pritchard

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Mark Pritchard is the author of the novel How They Scored and the collections of sex stories "Too Beautiful" and "How I Adore You." He lives in San Francisco.
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Slow Writing: Archaic Forms of Technology Outlive Newer Ones

  • Mark Pritchard
  • August 26, 2010
We love the image of these young people laboriously but lovingly writing their personal diaries as a way to preserve culture:
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Help Send Ted Rall to Afghanistan

  • Mark Pritchard
  • March 31, 2010
You’re probably familiar with the work of cartoonist Ted Rall, whose work appears on Salon and in many other places. He is raising money for a trip to Afghanistan to…
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Woman Whose Bio Resembled Novel’s Character Awarded $100K

  • Mark Pritchard
  • November 24, 2009
A woman who claimed a novelist and former friend based the character of a sexually promiscuous alcoholic on her has won a $100,000 libel award from a Georgia jury. Vicki…
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Literary Discussion Masquerading as Hulking

  • Mark Pritchard
  • November 23, 2009
From a recent blog entry by author Cathleen Schine:
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“My Worst Mistake? Getting Sick of My Work”

  • Mark Pritchard
  • September 22, 2009
Fiction writer Michelle Wittle got so tired of going over her short story that she just sent the damn thing out, assuming it had no typos. Oops. Of course, this…
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Van Booy Wins Frank O’Connor Award for Short Story Collection

  • Mark Pritchard
  • September 21, 2009
British writer Simon Van Booy has won “the world’s richest short story prize”, the Frank O’Connor award, for his collection Love Begins in Winter. Van Booy, who lives in New…
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World’s most sinister dingbats

  • Mark Pritchard
  • September 4, 2009
While browsing the web during a slow pre-holiday weekend day at work, I stumbled across a font family called Vialog, which is intended to be used primarily in signage. One…
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Kerouac: American-French-Latino?

  • Mark Pritchard
  • August 27, 2009
This account of a New York colloquium designed to highlight Jack Kerouac’s Québéqois roots has an odd turn at the end, in which the reporter calls attention to the fact…
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The Limits of Narrative

  • Mark Pritchard
  • August 13, 2009
In a post on The Guardian (UK), books writer Alison Flood writes about the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series of books and how she would skip ahead to find out…
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Why We Need Vampires

  • Mark Pritchard
  • July 31, 2009
In the New York Times today, filmmaker and author Guillermo del Toro and coauthor Chuck Hogan –they have a novel coming out called The Strain — write about how vampires…
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Apple’s rumored Tablet: what’s it for?

  • Mark Pritchard
  • July 29, 2009
Rumors of a new device supposedly being prepared by Apple for a release sometime in the next five months are flying this morning after an FT.com story which describes about…
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Vollmann’s ‘Imperial’ country

  • Mark Pritchard
  • July 29, 2009
William T. Vollmann, the author whose exhaustive research helps to blur the line between fiction and nonfiction, and whose books tend to be measured by the pound, has a new…
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