Mar
31
Put This in Your Atom Smasher and Smoke It…
March 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Like you, I also have a very hard time getting rid of books, even musty ones that belonged to cruel exes seem too personal to dispose of. Between the pages of books is exactly where I file all the odd little things that have no other logical storage location. You probably do this too. Old [...]
Mar
24
Hamlet = Cinderella. Graphing stories with Vonnegut…
March 24, 2010 | 1 Comment
“… there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth…” Perfect things rarely need much of an introduction, so just go ahead and read what I’ve posted below from Lapham’s Quarterly and you’ll be glad you did. Kurt Vonnegut at [...]
Mar
18
Books as Vaporware
March 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment
I heard a great word the other day: “Vaporware” – Vaporware is software that has been announced or marketed but has not yet been created. A fine example of such vapor is the interface for Microsoft’s Courier – a “digital journal” that is a sort of hybrid of the iPad, iPhone, your laptop computer, and [...]
Mar
10
New Breed: The Do-It-Yourself Book Tour
March 10, 2010 | Comments Off
There’s writing, and then there’s what happens once you actually get published. Thanks to the miniaturization of publishing house budgets and the scarcity of book stores (so that now even the biggest writers find themselves at Costco), the Book Tour has been forced to evolve. Like good humans, we are forced to evolve alongside such [...]
Mar
4
Cryptofiction. It Lives.
March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Pardon me if my personal obsessions tend to float onto the screen via this blog, but what are blogs good for if bloggers can’t indulge in self-involved logorrhea from time to time? If it wasn’t already quite clear, I am interested in cryptozoology and the book I am struggling to complete happens to relate to [...]