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• Clip Job: Five Songs About Books

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 144
  To judge by their tightly wound, country-tinged pop songs,  Olivia Mancini and the Mates aren’t shorting their craft. But even the most polished band needs its R&R, and this local act—featuring two former members of Washington Social Club— loves to curl up with a good book. That’s the impression, at ...
  2 days ago

• Sold on Suicide

  
  entschwindet und vergeht — Authority: 120
  Well I dont care-for, th things I eat, Cant stand that boogie-woogie beat- But Im sold, on, suicide! You can keep Der Bingle too, a- And that darn "bu-bu-bu-boo," Cause Im sold on suicide! Oh! Im not too keen on ration stamps Or Mothers who used to be baby ...
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• Learning Narrative Lessons from Gaming: What Not To Do

  
  Culture kills... wait, I mean cutlery — Authority: 125
  There are rules that every writer involved in the crafting of fiction has learned through rout memorization or from seeing positive examples of how to do things from quality work. But there are times when you as a writer just need to see when things go wrong to fully sense why certain guidelines are in place. I ...
  2 days ago

• Surfing noir feeds the brain with Stoke

  
  Blog Obispo — Authority: 137
  I was just about to give up finding a book at the library — in fact, I had made it all the way to authors beginning with “W” — when I saw a book titled “Dawn Patrol.”Being a surfer, this, of course, intrigued me. Because any surfer knows that dawn patrol refers to those who [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: ...
  5 days ago

• Thomas Pynchon and Inherent Vice

  
  ARTS AMERICA — Authority: 106
  A fascination with the hot cars of their day. Writer Thomas Pynchon is fascinating, and not just because we grew up on opposite shores of Long Island. He was a North Shore beat guy, me a South Shore clamdigger a few years younger, but with aspirations. His writing tends towards offbeat themes: oddball names, ...
  1 week ago

• Aimless Reading: The Es, Part 1 (Umberto Eco)

  
  Pearlblossom Highway — Authority: 423
  Travels in Hyperreality Originally uploaded by Michael_Kelleher Eco, Umberto Travels in Hyperreality Purchased at The Strand for $6.95. Im not sure when I bought this book. I have memory of seeing stacks of it on a table at the Strand, so I probably passed it many times before buying it. I remember seeing many ...
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• Thoughts after MileHiCon, before World Fantasy

  
  Robert Stikmanz — Authority: 103
  As I motored south on the way home from MileHiCon 41 in Denver, I found myself thinking long and hard about the place of my work in the fantasy genre. These reflections were timely, as I was simultaneously reviewing the whats and whys of my coming trip to San Jose for World Fantasy Con this [...]
  2 weeks ago

• The Leaden Feeling of the Cosmos

  
  Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes — Authority: 522
  The New Yorker ’s litblog, the Book Bench, has posted a lengthy 1978 interview of John Updike by two professors of English at the University of Sarajevo. Updike covers Moby-Dick , his writing routine, authors he enjoys who live outside the United States, and Isaac Bashevis Singer , who had just won the Nobel ...
  2 weeks ago

• a salad of despair

  
  Pechorin's Journal — Authority: 112
  Thomas Pynchon has a reputation as a challenging author. I’ve just finished The Crying of Lot 49, he lives up to that reputation. This is an extraordinary work, not one that apparently Pynchon himself rates but one that I definifely do. All that said, it’s complex stuff. Pynchon is most famous for his third ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blawg Review #234

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 643
  It’s hosted by Victoria Pynchon, who’s guestblogged in this space, at her site Settle It Now . Tags: legal blogs , on other blogs , Victoria Pynchon Related posts Blawg Review #220 (12) Who’s linking to us this week? (0) Who was the first legal blogger? (2) White Coat’s lawsuit story, ...
  2 weeks ago

• The crying of x^2 + xy + y^2 = 49

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 736
  "Pynchon, postmodern author, is commonly said to have a non-linear narrative style. No one seems to have taken seriously the possibility, to be explored in this essay, that his narrative style might in fact be quadratic ." Number theorist Michael Harris on Pynchon and conic sections .
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• What James Bond Has For Breakfast and Other Equally Important Things

  
  Fire In The Bones — Authority: 112
  You know the Esquire Big Black Book for Fall 2009 has fallen into hands it shouldn’t have fallen into if they’re choice of the “The Most Important Meal of the Day” is breakfast, and the breakfast James Bond supposedly has is “Scrambled eggs with chopped chives, served on hot buttered toast with pink ...
  3 weeks ago

• Film: Films of ’62: When Eras Collided

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Culture on the brink: Peter O’Toole, far left, with Omar Sharif in David Lean’s “Lawrence of Arabia.”
  4 weeks ago

• 6 questions we always ask — Steve Brezenoff, author

  
  Minnesota Reads — Authority: 467
  Writing these intros for people I actually know is tough, because I’m going to have to face the music about what I write. Steve Brezenoff is one of my Loft classmates. We’re taking an advanced fiction class together. There’s extra pressure too, because tomorrow my story is being workshopped in class. Maybe if ...
  4 weeks ago

• It took a few moments for this joke to sink in.

  
  Unsquare Dance — Authority: 103
  “Sledge was right, you are one crazy white mother—-er.” “How can you tell?” “I counted.” – From Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon © Jeff for Unsquare Dance , 2009. | Permalink | No comments |Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Few Moments , Inherent Vice , Joke , Thomas Pynchon Feed ...
  6 weeks ago

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