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The GraphomaniacMar 05 2015 I won"t bother lying. I ran across the absurdly prolific blogger and novelist James LaFond whilst I was mired in the shameful act of Googlebation: |
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The Straw Man ZoneFeb 26 2015 If I could eradicate one sin from the world, I would free writers and journalists from our desire to make a heartfelt splash, and damn |
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Frank Fleming’s Superior ManFeb 19 2015 The Internet is great for finding free couches, but the news cycle to which it is prey"horrible act; outrage; more horrible action"does nothing for my |
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More People, More NonsenseFeb 05 2015 It's not often that a Salon writer produces a lit piece that doesn"t make me grunt with rage. Aside from their hysterical loathing for male |
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Science Fiction for the Fourth GenerationJan 29 2015 Here's a brilliant idea for an anthology: collect essays about the changing face of war and war technology, then alternate them with short stories and |
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Momus, God of ScornJan 22 2015 I’m not interested in winning, but in thinking. I’d rather be perplexed than right. That 12-year-old quote is from a Scottish musician and writer named |
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Houellebecq and CassandraJan 15 2015 So Michel Houellebecq quit promoting his new book. Instead he's hiding out somewhere in the provinces. Houellebecq, whose name I despise having to spell, is |
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Good Advice, Bad ExamplesJan 08 2015 I can"t resist a writing style guide, especially one that promises to be lively. Steven Pinker made his name as a linguistic and cognitive scientist; |
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2014’s Top Abominations in Books and JournalismJan 01 2015 You can blame the kids, the Internet, pus in the milk, IngSoc English professors, or Ritalin, but 2014 has got to be one of the |
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CeasefireDec 25 2014 The rigged game of publishing is no less rotten today than on any other, but it's unnatural to be contentious on Christmas. I"d rather talk |
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A Kinder, Gentler ColonialismDec 18 2014 I"m still not sure why half of the French press members who still have enough couilles left to stand up for their national sovereignty and |
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Anomie en MasseDec 11 2014 I love those sweet, fleeting moments of near-lucidity when the janitors at the mainstream pop-culture echo chamber almost manage to notice how annoying the echo |
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Pay to PlayDec 04 2014 Like most of the readers and writers I know, I"m still painfully agnostic about the self-publishing trend. Clearly, some publishers are more obstacle than ally. |
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Learning Not to LoveNov 26 2014 Making fun of millennials is all kinds of fish-in-a-barrel fun. Their creepy, dehumanized fixation on their smartphones reminds me of lab rats, pushing the Tweet |
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English Teacher X: Peace in the Middle East?Nov 20 2014 You"d think American workers could get some scraps off the table of globalism. Fine, most of our middle-class manufacturing jobs have been shipped overseas, and |
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Slapstick in the Indie PressNov 13 2014 For novelists who aren"t already famous, self-publishing looks better all the time. Mainstream houses" gatekeeping may be corrupt, but the antics of some small presses |
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Derbyshire’s EpicNov 06 2014 I can"t argue: it does look a little strange for one of a publication's writers to review another, especially when we"ve done our share of |
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Halfway to DaringOct 23 2014 The great comic novelist Kingsley Amis was blamed for damaging the Angry Young Man literary movement last century by refusing to agree that he was |
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Tao Lin: Who Needs Libel?Oct 16 2014 If I could get up the stomach to investigate particularly pretentious authors the moment they ping my nonsense detector, I might have a career in |
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Pardon Me, Gents: Of Quintus CurtiusOct 09 2014 It's taken me a few weeks to work up the gall to write about the pseudonymous Quintus Curtius" first book. Thirty Seven: Essays on Life, |
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Philistines, Arise!Oct 02 2014 Have you heard that big, bad Amazon is destroying the book industry? To be more accurate, they"re plowing the major publishers under: ah, nobility in |
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Alain Finkielkraut vs. the End of CivilitySep 25 2014 If I were in Paris this week, I"d be looking for a nice mosque to hide under. In a video released Monday, the Islamic State |
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Please, No More Screaming OrgasmsSep 11 2014 One shouldn"t let oneself get too excited by book reviews. There are many bad habits, ground into modern writing like a bloodstain, that reviewers eat |
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Dystopia Lives!Sep 04 2014 The old "men don"t read fiction" saw is making the rounds of the publishing industry again. It's more a self-fulfilling prophecy than a valid judgment |
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The Terror of a Would-Be WankerAug 28 2014 Only an adolescent, overgrown or otherwise, thinks that all his friends are leading lights of their age and demands that they be hailed as such. |
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Get Off My Lawn and Go Read a BookAug 21 2014 Being neither rocket-scientist material nor chipper by temperament, I have never been able to pile up the tower of steaming hubris it would take to |
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