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• "The ice caps are melting, oh ho ho ho ho ho."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 747
  Hey, its the Tiny Tim song Thomas Pynchon was talking about! This insane song appears on Tims 1968 album "God Bless Tiny Tim," so all that ice caps melting business has nothing to do with our present-day angst over polar bears and obeisance to the Great God Gore . Unless Tim started it all. Who are those kids ...
  1 week ago

• Josh Lieb–I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President (2009)

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 129
  SOUNDTRACK : CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND-Trout Mask Replica (1968). –Fast and Bulbous. –Bulbous yes, but also tapered. This is an infamous disc in the history of music.  Which surprises me, as I can’t imagine many people have ever listened to it in its entirety.  I learned about it though my ...
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• Be Seeing You!

  
  Icono-Curmudgeon-Clast - Loring Wirbel's Rants — Authority: 110
  Pattern recognition is both the blessing and curse of sentience. Discerning patterns provides structure to our lives , and made possible the rise of the scientific method, the one reliable way of understanding that wolves and bears are bigger threats in the forest than witches and trolls. Still, an excess of ...
  1 week ago

• Clip Job: Five Songs About Books

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 143
  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 weeks ago

• Learning Narrative Lessons from Gaming: What Not To Do

  
  Culture kills... wait, I mean cutlery — Authority: 128
  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 weeks ago

• Surfing noir feeds the brain with Stoke

  
  Blog Obispo — Authority: 139
  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: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thomas Pynchon and Inherent Vice

  
  ARTS AMERICA — Authority: 104
  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, ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  Pearlblossom Highway — Authority: 421
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Leaden Feeling of the Cosmos

  
  Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes — Authority: 550
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• a salad of despair

  
  Pechorin's Journal — Authority: 110
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

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