Month: June 2012
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Things I Remember About Infinite Jest
I first heard about David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest from the 1996 profile in Details. (I used to subscribe to Details for some reason; I’m not sure why.) I didn’t have a TV then, so of course I ran to the bookstore, bought the hardcover, and forced myself to read at least 50 pages a day over…
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My New Book, Sleep Has No Master, Is Now Available
I’m proud to announce my new book, Sleep Has No Master, is now available! It’s on Amazon for the Kindle here. The print version will be available shortly – it’s currently in the proof process. The book’s site is here. The book’s a novel-in-stories of sorts. It’s 27 pieces, flash fiction and short story, with each…
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Dumping Word
I hate Microsoft Word. I don’t know how much of my life I’ve wasted on Word, although I’m certain I will be on my deathbed and wish I had all of the years back I spent cursing at Clippy and the Ribbon and every idiot who ever handed me a book or story entirely formatted…
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Pulp Fiction
I watched Pulp Fiction for the millionth time last night. We’re trying to get through that AFI 100 films thing, starting with all of the ones I have on DVD at the house. I haven’t seen Pulp Fiction in maybe ten years though, so it was interesting to see it with some distance. I think the big…
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Editing and Allergies
It’s the middle of allergy season, or one of California’s several allergy seasons, at least, and I’ve been wheezing away this week. On a normal day, I only dose up on non-drowsy stuff in the morning, but this week, it’s involved two doses in the day and a heavy bit of Benadryl to make it…
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2008 Interview at Hipster Book Club
[This is a reconstruction of an interview I did for Hipster Book Club in 2008. The original site is gone, and I couldn’t find it in the wayback machine, but I have the questions and answers from my email archive. So the intro and whatnot is missing, but you get the idea…] You started off…
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New York
Usually when I fall into a deep nostalgic k-hole, I’m thousands of miles removed from the actual event. But tonight, It’s more like a few hundred yards. I’m back in the Lower East Side, in a hotel room that’s a matter of blocks from my last home on the east coast. I’m here for a…
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Curators Versus Creators
I haven’t read Mashable in a while, and for whatever reason, decided to re-add it to my RSS reader. Within about five articles, I suddenly remembered why I stopped. First, half of the articles were link-bait about various {Apple_Product}-killers. Like there was an article about how damn neat HP’s new “answer to the iMac” was,…