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Michel Faber's Fantasies

[1.Nov.07] :. "My fiction should make the reader want to grab some of these characters and shout, 'No, no, can't you see it's not LIKE that?!'"

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Long Zoom: Interview with Steven Johnson

[6.Apr.07] :. "My editor said, 'Yeah, it's like Emergence if the slime molds started killing people in chapter four.' And that became my mantra as I was writing it: 'Just think Emergence with killer slime molds and you're golden.'" PopMatters talks to Ghost Map author, Steven Johnson.

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The Treatment

[17.Jan.08] :. Four forms of love: a teacher's love for his students, a son's love for his father, a man's search for a sexual partner, and an analysand's love for his analyst.

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The Iron Whim by Darren Wershler-Henry

[4.Dec.07] :. Darren Wershler-Henry's The Iron Whim is less a history of typewriting than a history of its image.

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Count Dracula

[31.Oct.07] :. This is a must-own for Dracula fans, lovers of Halloween, and admirers of Victorian fiction; virtually anyone will find something to enjoy in it.

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The Man Who Melted by Jack Dann

[3.Oct.07] :. Jack Dann has created a post-apocalyptic world in which Raymond Mantle is searching for the memory of his lost wife. The search for her turns out to be a search for the relationship between memory and desire.

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An Arsonists Guide to Writers Homes in New England by Brock Clarke

[24.Sep.07] :. Clarke's book ought to make us think about the stories we tell ourselves to keep the howling demons at bay and, hopefully, to laugh honestly at them for what they really are.

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Books   With Speed and Violence by Fred Pearce

Books   Otherwise Normal People by Aurelia C. Scott

Books   The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden

Books   Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell by Bruce Eric Kaplan

Books   Devils in the Sugar Shop by Timothy Schaffert

Books   Doing Nothing by Tom Lutz

Books   Smartbomb by Heather Chaplin and Aaron Ruby

Books   Boomsday by Christopher Buckley

Books   Riddled with Life by Marlene Zuk

Books   Working Stiff by Grant Stoddard

Books   Survival of the Sickest by Dr. Sharon Moalem with Jonathan Prince

Books   The Lazy Boys by Carl Shuker

Books   The Perfect Thing by Steven Levy

Books   The Rhythm of the Road by Albyn Leah Hall

Books   Bee Thousand by Marc Woodworth

Books   My Reality Check Bounced! by Jason Ryan Dorsey

Books   Words That Work by Dr. Frank Luntz

Books   Song of the Crow by Layne Maheu

Books   Exile by Richard North Patterson

Books   Golem Song by Marc Estrin

Books   apostrophe by Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry

Books   Binge by Barrett Seaman

Books   Falling Room by Eli Hastings

Books   My Freshman Year by Rebekah Nathan

Books   JPod by Douglas Coupland

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Consuming Consumables

An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke [$23.95]

[13.Dec.07] :. Sam Pulsipher has many problems. Not only did he burn down Emily Dickinson’s home, but he also killed two people. And while he’s married and started to raise a family, the son of the...

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Does Microsoft Word Have Literary Judgment?

[26.Sep.07] :. Janice Harayda, proprietor of One-Minute Book Reviews, former books editor at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle , does NOT like Lloyd...

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Impotence: A review and interview

[17.Jul.07] :. This is the first of what I hope will be a series of short looks at books from academic presses which I think might interest a wider readership. In each, there will be first a mini-review, and...

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In memoriam: Sterling E. Lanier

[12.Jul.07] :. I'm just finishing a review of Jack Dann's The Man Who Melted, out in a reissue from Pyr. Writing the review has had me thinking about genre fiction I'd like to see come back into print. If I...

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Soft Skull Online Sale

[13.Jun.07] :. Since PopMatters has an affiliation with Soft Skull Press, I thought I might point out that, as a consequence of being bought out by Winton Shoemaker, Soft Skull is short of cash: One little bit of...

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Re:Print   Dennis Cass discusses Head Case

Re:Print   Spring... when a young man's thoughts lightly turn to Trollope

Re:Print   Reading and Time

Re:Print   Things that must stop

Re:Print   Another Welcome

Consuming Consumables   The Omnivore's Dilemma

Consuming Consumables   READ - What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts?

Consuming Consumables   READ - The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis

Consuming Consumables   READ - Lost Girls by Alan Moore

Consuming Consumables   READ - LibraryThing.com

 
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