Monthly Archives: March 2006

being thirty-something

March 21, 2006
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I’ll be guest-blogging for Mark Sarvas tomorrow at Elegant Variation, talking about The May Queen, edited by Nicki Richesin and just out from Tarcher/Putnam. The May Queen features essays from 27 female writers, artists, and filmmakers on the subject of being in one’s thirties. Fellow contributors Megan Daum (The Quality of Life Report, My Misspent Youth) and Kim Askew will take the guest-blog spots at EV on Thursday and Friday.

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johanna edwards – literary soundtrack

March 21, 2006
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I have plenty of reasons to be excited about GCC memberJohanna Edwards, not the least of which is that she put Stone Temple Pilots, Chris Isaak, and the White Stripes on her Literary Soundtrack: It’s Your Thing -The Isley Brothers Bohemian Like You -The Dandy Warhols An Honest Mistake – The Bravery We Used to Be Friends -The Dandy Warhols Brick -Ben Folds Five Falling For the First Time -Barenaked Ladies Go With The Flow – Queens Of The Stone Age The Denial Twist -The White Stripes Wicked Game -Chris Isaak Family Man When the Stars Go Blue -The...

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iraqi civilian deaths

March 20, 2006
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This article in Time Magazine describes the death of 15 civilians at the hands of Marines in Haditha, Iraq, last November. A number of the victims were women and children; the youngest was only two years old. In light of this event, in addition to Abu Ghraib (which strangely seems to have been pretty much forgotten) and the continued violence resulting from the U.S. occupation, how is it possible for George W. Bush to hold a press conference today insisting upon the justness of this war? His continued line that it is a war for democracy seems all the...

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found texts

March 17, 2006
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Rachel Deahl reports for Publishers Weekly that Slate is launching its new fiction section with a serialized novel by Walter Kirn titled The Unbinding: Kirn’s novel is intended to make inventive use of its format while ruminating on how the Internet shapes our culture. As such, the unfolding story is being presented as a series of found documents with links to Web sites, e-mails and other digital mediums. I’m interested to see how this experiment plays out, as I’ve long been a fan of found texts in literature. I think Borges does this better than anyone, but there’s also...

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did I mention?

March 16, 2006
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I ran into Alex Parsons in Austin last week, which reminded me that I’d yet to mention his second novel, In the Shadows of the Sun, here. This follow-up to Leaving Disneyland, which won the 2000 AWP Award for the novel, was nominated for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2005 National Book Award, and it was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. You can read an excerpt here. Also, Bruce Bauman‘s much-talked-about novel from Other Press, And the Word Was, is now out in paperback, so if you’re on a grad school...

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