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This probably isn’t the ideal time to bring up the full scope of my occasionally fraught relationship with the New York Red Bulls (aka Red Bull New York, aka Metro), the local soccer team that I have supported since 2008. Suffice to say, this is the team that unlocked the fact that I could have
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I took a cue from Maris Kreizman and Drew Broussard earlier today and offered one book recommendation per “like” on a Bluesky thread. For posterity, here are the 50 books I ended up suggesting…
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As the subject suggests: (Digression: Caleb is the worst. There’s an Achewood strip from 2003 wherein one character describes himself as follows: “I feel like I should be in some Microsoft Word ad. All smiling and pointing to a diagram which shows the various parts of my brain which a company could use for tasks.”
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I picked up J.G. Ballard’s Super-Cannes to read for a book club run by Archestratus Books that I couldn’t actually attend. (Head, meet desk.) Still: good lord, what a novel. Stating the obvious here: Ballard’s a massive figure in my own personal canon, and I keep finding myself floored by his work in new and
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Drove down to Bethesda yesterday for an event at the Writer’s Center, with whom I’d done a virtual conversation earlier this year. (One of the enjoyable parts of this trip involved getting to meet Zach Powers, who’d interviewed me at that time, in person.) The subject was jobs in fiction, and I was on the
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Had a go at recording an audio version of In the Sight this weekend. It was, much like the book itself, a very DIY work. After finishing the process I revisited Blake Butler’s thoughts on recording the audiobook version of his book Molly, and — even before factoring in the “these are different books” factor
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Recently, the 33 1/3 series held an open call for proposals. I submitted one for Low’s Christmas. It was not selected. So, since this is unlikely to appear anywhere else, I figured I’d post the introduction/sample chapter I sent in. It’s a little odd to do this, I know: “hey, here’s some writing that was
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So: last week I went to City Center to see their concert staging of the musical Titanic. I’d seen the original Broadway production over 25 years earlier, and I remember being struck this time around by the way that this new production seemed to emphasize a certain death-haunted quality of the play. To say that
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And that’s a wrap on the book tour. I’m currently in a rest stop on the Ohio Turnpike, catching up on some freelancing and drinking coffee. There’s going to be one more post in this series, I think, in a more “what were the lessons we learned along the way” vein, but for now… Last
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Holy shit, Youngstown. That was a heck of a time. Terrific readings, my first time seeing an old friend in a few years, a great bar, and music playing by the likes of Abner Jay and the John Cale/Terry Riley combo. So good. So very good. Fan Now I’m in Ann Arbor for a few
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