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  • The Year of Reading & Writing

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    I thought I’d recap on my year of reading during my Year of Writing (since my ‘six months off’ kinda snowballed there). Goodreads tells me that in 2011, while I was allowing the bulk of my productive time to be sucked into the pitiful task of ‘earning money’, I read 26 books (plus another 23…

  • Frederick Karinthy, Soliloquies in the Bath

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    Oh, this short story is marvellous! I must track down more of this Karinthy fellow. Apparently he also came up with the ‘six degrees of separation’ idea. Brilliant! Digging up diamonds in my latest digital spring clean.

  • The best readings are not readings

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    Loving this article (for real, I’ve read it twice) on how to have good & bad author readings. Sez Michael H. Miller of the New York Observer, A good reader is either a natural performer, or knows how to throw a party. Think I originally pilfered the link from Ms Girlie Jones? My favourite writer’s…

  • What you get when you type ‘women’ into Harpers

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    Kaaron Warren proclaimed the virtues of Harper’s magazine on her blog (& mine), so I went to the Harpers website & found a search engine where you can interrogate the magazine from 1984 to 2009. The site is kinda utilitarian, so there I am with a blank search engine all the way back to 1984…

  • In today’s consumptions

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    Some kind of weird sleeping sickness has taken over me & is attempting to right the balance of the last several weeks’ insomnia. It’s kinda inconvenient. But, since I’m stuck in bed, I did invest some time in reading The New Yorker’s lengthy article on Paul Haggis (writer of Due South, Million Dollar Baby, and…

  • Free Books put the fear into booksellers

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    World Book Night, 5 March, is freaking out booksellers. One million free books on the market are gonna kill independent book selling. (Obviously they’ve never heard about Bookcrossing. Shhh!) Which goes against a lot of the authorial commentary on Creative Commons & the value of the ‘first one free’ approach. And hasn’t Cory Doctorow discovered…

  • December! 2010!

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    What. A. Year. It’s pretty much done: one more day of day-job, several weeks of resting AND writing, and then back for another round in 2011. January seems so long ago I can’t even remember what I wanted to get out of this year. Of course, I *should* have written myself a message at futureme.org,…

  • Crossed

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    The bf, familiar with my irregular craving for ‘brit cop drama’, was surprised to find an actual brit cop drama on TV last night that he hadn’t seen before. ‘Why haven’t we seen this?’ ‘Ah, yes. This is CRACKER. It’s very dark. I mean, it’s excellent but … too dark.’ ‘What, darker than WALLANDER?’ ‘Oh,…

  • The Situation, by Jeff VanderMeer

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    The Situation is … (there’s a fish project and a boss who’s found in the corridor crying and a friend who’s increasingly becoming a bear). The Situation is …. (the fish, it has the boss’s face, but that was done on purpose, part of the project to build the fish). The Situation is … (the…

  • The le Carre distortion

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    “‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’, my third book, changed my life and put me on bare-knuckle terms with my abilities. Until its publication I had written literally in secret, from inside the walls of the secret world, under another name, and free of serious critical attention. Once this book hit the stands,…