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On reading

The Sunday Salon and a beautiful hunk of heartbreak

December 9, 2007

First things first: I just hooked up with Debra Hamel‘s group of Sunday readers/bloggers who post up thoughts and stuff about what they’ve got their noses into. There’s nothing to it… I figured I’d be reading and writing on Sundays anyhoo. Check it out and sign up. Once you do, Deb adds your RSS feed [...]

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PLOTS WITH GUNS redux

November 27, 2007

Anthony Neil Smith announced last week the return of the incredible PLOTS WITH GUNS. I’m thrilled Smith’s figured out a way to make it work. It really was one of the finest sources of online crime fiction back in the day.1 And this misanthrope from the UK is starting D20, an online/print mag for degenerate [...]

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Jeff Bezos’s folly?

November 20, 2007

Not sure what I think of this. Mostly I think it’s absurd to believe that people will trade a centuries-old $10 device for a shiny new $400 device that doesn’t do anything until you buy software for it. They might use the digital to compliment the analog, but I don’t think we’ll see it replace [...]

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What’s taking so long?

November 12, 2007

Some of you have e-mailed to ask, “What’s taking you so long to read Joe Hill’s HEART SHAPED BOX?” Good question. After all, it’s been down there in the Reading right now widget going on three months since August 21st. I realize I can take some time to get through some of the books I’ve [...]

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THE GODFATHER’S REVENGE, by Mark Winegardner

November 3, 2007

39 Not sure what to call this book. The sequel’s sequel? I’m being a little flip because I don’t know whether I liked this book. Mark Winegardner wrote another pageturner. But it’s not as if he did it from nothing. The characters from the Universe That Puzo Made are already rich and well known. It’s [...]

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Give ’em hell, Pat

November 2, 2007

Pat Conroy had this to say about writing and reading and writers and teachers… and people who like to ban books: The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me [...]

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