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The Last Book I Loved: Isaac Fitzgerald, the first half of The Night of the Gun
That’s not to say I didn’t like the second half of the book, where David Carr gets his life back on track and ends up working as a writer for the New York Times. But I’m a sucker for a…
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Jonathan Kiefer: The Last Book I Loved, What’s Not to Love?
Sometimes I like to make myself depressed by reading other writers named Jonathan who are better than me. Lately it’s been a lot of fun/shame, what with Lethem and Franzen on the scene, not to mention the immortal Swift. But…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Congratulations to Juan Felipe Herrera and August Kleinzahler on their shared National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for 2008. Barbara Jane Reyes has more on Herrera. Ron Silliman on on anthologies: “It is all but impossible to even characterize…
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Pasties and Pastries
Oh, I wish I were in Austin for SXSW’s Pasties and Pastries cupcake and boobie show.
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Saturday Morning Links
Toilet-shaped plates with food presented as excrement. Sweet! Ever find yourself at a diner at three in the morning, the drunk hungries kicking your ass and your waffle/hash brown/extra bacon combo is taking forever? Make your own ice cream from…
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Zak Smith: The Last Book I Loved, Viriconium
M. John Harrison is doomed. Here is what is going to happen to him: in ten or twelve years, after the Hollywood development people have clawed past the Dunes and Narnias and Spider-Men and have begun to see the bottom…
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Post-Young: Notes on the Not-So-Fresh-Faced Author, He Blogs
To quote somebody far more incisive than me, “Once your book comes out, the weirdness begins…”
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Cobblers and Coverless Books
Doing well: shoe repair shops and, according to the Telegraph of London, used bookstores:
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Beautiful Booze Hags
In a flash that’s maybe as much prose poem as it is non-fiction (does it matter?), John Griswold injects us into a scene at the end of a man’s life. Three waitresses at the restaurant where the man ate every…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jason Kottke
“The site was becoming unmanageable as just a hobby… so I decided I either needed to quit the site or turn it into something I could live off of… The bigger challenge was how to balance taking the site seriously…
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Words Before the Doors Close
For a certain segment of the American Mennonite population, a segment whose ancestors passed through and lived in Germany, the language of the old country was low German. Low German’s Jewish counterpart is Yiddish–and it even sometimes sounds like it.…