David Foster Wallace at the Ransom Center
Somewhere in a box, I have a number of notebooks from middle school and high school. Not all of them, but some kind of random sampling that my curatorial self saw fit, once upon a time, to save. Once...
View ArticleNew Yorker fiction (Mar 7) –“Backbone”
In the face of something larger than yourself, is there only one type of fruitful response? Couldn’t someone be forgiven for trying any number of various strategies for coping with this something that...
View ArticleKind of Sort of Riffing on Maud Newton’s Riff
In Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Maud Newton has an interesting riff—that’s actually a capital-R Riff, one of their many new categories to keep us all reading. In it, she posits that David Foster...
View ArticleGolden Doodles
I do a lot of different writing these days: academic work for school, copywriting for a buck, essays and reviews for Like Fire and other venues, and plain old chatty newsy posts like this. One of the...
View ArticleSunday Links, November 10, 2013
The winners of the World Fantasy Awards have been announced. The winners of the British Fantasy Awards have been announced. The winners of the Gemmell Awards for fantasy have been announced. It’s...
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