From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Superpowers and Such

03.31.2010
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A writer writing about writing? Novel!

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New Yorker Interview with Junot Diaz

03.26.2010

Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they’re running on medicinal-strength Updike. More @ The New Yorker.

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Victor LaValle On Black Lit

03.22.2010

“The shock of Terry McMillan is that they didn’t know there were millions of black and white readers interested in the lives and heartaches of upper-middle-class black women.” More @ NYT.

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Review: “Reality Hunger” by David Shields

03.11.2010
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The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.
Plots are for dead people.
The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.
A seemingly scatterbrained collage of quotes and one-liners, Reality Hunger will do two things: [...]

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Voice In Creative Nonfiction

03.05.2010

Memoirist Sue William Silverman: “It is voice, then, in all its manifestations, that examines multiple and mysterious facets of a persona: the real ‘you’ deepened into a character.” More @ creativenonfiction.org

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(Not)Thinking About Getting An E-Reader

03.02.2010
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Posting live from the Android…at my desk, in my cubicle, no less. I’ll add to this later, but I think I want an e-reader. There’s this growing suspicion that I could actually read more and, perhaps, faster with, essentially, a virtual library to supplement my personal, physical one. Just a thought for now. [...]

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So Many Gadgets, So Little Writing

03.02.2010
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Four journals. Three pens. A Macbook as my primary unit. Followed by the DROID. Up next, a netbook (tethered to the DROID for 3G web). Then, the desktop PC. A 1940ish typewriter I need to fix. My fiancee’s laptop if necessary. My work laptop (sometimes at work). The iPod touch. I [...]

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