Archive for March, 2007
Zombies are True
Zombies are True
Book Review…
Link, Kelly. Magic for Beginners. Orlando: Harvest Books, 2006.
The nine stories in Kelly Link’s second collection are fantastic, meaning incredibly good and also containing elements of fantasy. They are innovative and down to earth, about people, the things people do and feel. Some of the most sparkling gems in this collection [...]
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The Iowa Review on New Media, Games, and Interactive Fiction has a fascinating online issue. Check out some of the links to networked novels / narrative projects…From the editor’s introduction:
In most hypertext fiction, the role of chronology in structuring the narrative is greatly diminished in comparison to print fiction conventions. In the absence of chronology, the [...]
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Reading Right Now
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, by Chris Ware. I’m embarrassed to say this is the first graphic novel I’ve read. (Hangs head in shame.) I also picked up a copy of Ghost World, which was recommended to me in reference to the novel I’m revising. Jimmy Corrigan is a huge doorstop, while Ghost [...]
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Food!
I’m throwing this out there to see if it sticks: ShrinkingVegetarian.
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Heidi Julavits
There is an interview with Heidi Julavits up at Bookslut. I think I mentioned this before, but her second novel, The Effect of Living Backwards, was one of my favorite books of last year. Her third novel, The Uses of Enchantment, also came out in October of last year. In addition to writing fiction, Julavits [...]
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AWP Loot
AWP was a good time. Some panels were infinitely more interesting than others, but, what are you going to do. And I had no idea restaurant service was so horrid downtown. There are conferences all the time; aren’t they used to crowds? And why does a bottle of domestic beer cost $5.75? For the love [...]
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AWP, Baby
What crappy weather for walking around downtown today! There are hundreds of panels, but I have my eye on a few. From the AWP Conference Schedule for today:
R143. Deviant Fictions by Women. (Kathryn Davis, Jaimy
Gordon, Kate Bernheimer, Kellie Wells)
In her introduction to Halldór Laxness’s novel Under the Glacier,
Susan Sontag says, “Narratives that deviate from [the] [...]
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