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The Impossible Transfer: July 2008
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Let Us Praise Weird English. Book critic James Wood recently wrote a flattering review. Of Aleksandar Hemon's new book. In it he describes Hemon's extraordinary background. Wood goes on to praise the foreign-ness of Hemon's prose. Occasionally, he flourishes a lyrically pedantic Nabokovian bloom, as with the “fenestral glasses” a character wears. The line about restoring buried meaning to words like "vacuous" and "petrified" reminds me of the essay by Ted Hughes I wrote about.
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William Gibson’s pattern recognition skill is rooted in1950s Appalachia. | Open Page
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Jeff Kinney, Dan Clowes lead a rich slate of kids authors and graphic novelists. William Gibson’s pattern recognition skill is rooted in1950s Appalachia. December 13, 2011. The visionary sci-fi writer who coined the term “cyberspace” while most of us still worked on typewriters traces his unique perspective to an isolated, bookish childhood in a small Blue Ridge mountain town. Gibson was born in 1948 in South Carolina, and lived in various places as a young boy until his father died accidentally, and his...
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Killing Kodansha International makes no sense. | Open Page
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Jeff Kinney, Dan Clowes lead a rich slate of kids authors and graphic novelists. Killing Kodansha International makes no sense. March 8, 2011. When Kodansha International bought William Scott Wilson’s first book, a translation of the classical samurai guide. He was warned it would not sell. Instead, it became one of his Japanese publisher’s biggest backlist titles. “I thought this would go on forever,” Wilson says. All of his translations remain in print, lead by. Ghostdog: The Way of the Samurai. His bi...
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Russell Hoban wrote books that blurred the line between fantasy and literature | Open Page
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Jeff Kinney, Dan Clowes lead a rich slate of kids authors and graphic novelists. Russell Hoban wrote books that blurred the line between fantasy and literature. December 14, 2011. One of the 20th century’s vast number of unjustly neglected novelists, Russell Hoban, died yesterday at age 86 — a development he foresaw with his customary wit as “a good career move.”. Reports in an excellent if too-brief obit, Hoban told an interviewer in 2002 that his death would spur new reader attention. By the emerging A...
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Chauncey Mabe | Open Page
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Jeff Kinney, Dan Clowes lead a rich slate of kids authors and graphic novelists. Posts by Chauncey Mabe. December 16, 2011. Farewell essay: On the love of paper and ink and glue, and words on a printed page. December 15, 2011. A Hunger Games cookbook may sound like a contradiction in terms. It’s not. December 14, 2011. Russell Hoban wrote books that blurred the line between fantasy and literature. December 13, 2011. William Gibson’s pattern recognition skill is rooted in1950s Appalachia. December 9, 2011.
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The Broadkill Review & John Milton Poetry Festival: August 2015
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The Broadkill Review and John Milton Poetry Festival. Friday, August 28, 2015. Poetry editor Linda Blaskey featured in 2015 Best of the Net Nominations cahoodaloodaling. 2015 Best of the Net Nominations cahoodaloodaling. Linda Blaskey, who runs the poetry chapbook contest, and edits poetry for the Broadkill Review is up on the best of the web at Cahoodaloodaling. Go Linda! Great poem, too. Links to this post. Sunday, August 2, 2015. Submission Period for the 13th Annual #DogfishHead #Poetry Prize is open.
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The Broadkill Review & John Milton Poetry Festival: December 2013
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The Broadkill Review and John Milton Poetry Festival. Sunday, December 1, 2013. Dogfish Head Poetry Prize Presentation December 8th in Rehoboth. Linda Blaskey, poetry editor, The Broadkill Review. Links to this post. Labels: Dogfish Head Brewings and Eats. Dogfish Head Poetry Prize. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Virtual home for the Broadkill Review, a literary journal published out of Milton, DE, by Jamie Brown. Create a gmail account or blogger account and follow us.or join us on Facebook. So given how f...
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News, Views, and Reviews: GOODBYE GLUTEN: Happy, healthy, delicious eating with a Texas twist
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News, Views, and Reviews. News you rarely read elsewhere, views you seldom hear, and reviews you'll like. Saturday, January 24, 2015. GOODBYE GLUTEN: Happy, healthy, delicious eating with a Texas twist. Reviewed in the Boerne Star, Nov. 21, 2014. Authors Kim Stanford and Bill Backhaus prove that even decadent deserts can be successfully prepared without gluten. There are problems inherent with sticking to a gluten-free diet. Many processed foods contain gluten, as do canned goods, condiments, cured m...
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News, Views, and Reviews: Maneuvering Life
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News, Views, and Reviews. News you rarely read elsewhere, views you seldom hear, and reviews you'll like. Monday, March 24, 2014. Each was saved from choking to death when a bystander performed the Heimlich maneuver. The inventor of the procedure,. Describes how he developed the anti-choking procedure in his memoir,. Heimlich’s Maneuvers: My Seventy Years of Lifesaving Innovation. And ordered thousands of them. How is it that I invented a lifesaving method that led to my becoming so well known? Heimlich ...
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