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Monthly Archives: March 2017
Book Review: The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
Sometimes it is hard to write reviews. When you can pin one thing down that you loved, hated, emoted over intensely, you can kind of push you way into something fast and messy. I am not a great reviewer. I … Continue reading
A Man and His Dogs
There was a man who used to walk his two dogs in the neighborhood where I grew up. He had long, almost pill-shaped head, his hair having vacated the most of his head in the comparably favorable realm of only … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Non-fiction
Tagged childhood, children, conversation, Dogs, experience, friendship, innocence, Memory, nostalgia, remember that time..., stranger danger, strangers, walks
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(Comic)Book Review: Blame! Master Edition – Volume 1
The English title Blame! is a heinous and unabashed mistranslation of the proper title Blam! (the sound of a gun firing and a gun being the most talkative amongst all the books characters.) Why they thought that Blame! made any … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, fiction
Tagged Blame!, cyberpunk, Cyborgs, dystopia, Grunge, horror, Manga, Pandemic, sci-fi, science fiction, Technological Singularity, Tsutomu Nihei, world building
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The Truth of It
I don’t have hobbies, I have loathings. Pieces of myself I chew on when no one’s looking. Ideas, failures, habits, all bitter, all nursed against the pressure of my tongue. I don’t kill them, I can’t. I tried. Tried nailing … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Non-fiction
Tagged creative process, doubt, dreams, dressing it up into something else, fiction, hiding in your art, lies, loathings, madness, misery, nonfiction, writing
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Book Review: The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America by David Hajdu
Comics used to be big business. You might say to yourself ‘Hey, wait a minute, random internet person! Comics are big business now!” It is here that I shake my head slowly and tell you that what you are speaking … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Nonfiction
Tagged art, Censorship, Comic books, Comic Code Authority, communism, David Hajdu, history, politics, publishing, The Red Scare, The Ten-Cent Plague
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Book Review: The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
After World War II, as one can imagine, Germany was in something of a bind when it came to moving forward. What is the correct way to move forward after an all but global rebuttal to the government of Hitler’s … Continue reading
Book Review: The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
I love the Oxford English Dictionary. I first got untethered access to it in college (Hurray for the benefits of ludicrously overpriced education!), now granted this was in attempting to find a ‘unique’ interpretation to a couple of John … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Nonfiction
Tagged Biography, Book about Books, British History, crime, Dictionary, Humanities, Insanitarium, madness, murder, Oxford English Dictionary, Simon Winchester, words, writing
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Book Review: The Water Knife
I like Paolo Bacigalupi. I like his dogged pursuit of environmentalist sci-fi dystopia. It’s a rare genre and one that it would be all too easy to get drenched in the Holier-Than-Thou attitude that comes with any deeply held conviction … Continue reading
Red Boar Jones: Enter Holly
He walks in and finds a seat in corner booth. He stretches his back working out a kink that has been following him since he woke up this morning. It’s dark, light enough to make out the silhouettes of the … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Fiction
Tagged A novel someday, alcohol, biotech, blockchain, Book #2, Edensphere, futurism, implants, novel, prosthetics, Red Boar Jones, Rough Draft, techno-dystopia, whispers and whiskey
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Book Review: Lotus by Lijia Zhang
I have strange pet peeves when it comes to writing. There are certain turns of phrases that when used demand being expanded upon. The one that rings clearest and earliest in this book is, “There was something about _____”. … Continue reading
A Land of Rum and Writing 