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A Skinseller's Workshop: April 2016
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Political and Literary thoughts by Joseph Tomaras. List of publications to date. Wednesday, April 20, 2016. Getting accepted to Simon's Rock was the second-best thing to ever happen to me. The best thing was getting kicked out. Another way to put this is that it was a bad experience, but that it was likely a better bad experience than staying in high school would have been. Did I mention I was in Florida? I hated Florida. I still hate Florida. If so, is your kid out to you? If not, why not? I recommend i...
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A Skinseller's Workshop: My Top Ten Books of 2016
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Political and Literary thoughts by Joseph Tomaras. List of publications to date. Sunday, January 1, 2017. My Top Ten Books of 2016. 1 Rabih Alameddine, The Angel of History. 2 Louise Erdrich, LaRose. I already did a long post about the changes in my reception of Erdrich over the years. I had been looking forward to this novel since the appearance of "The Flower" in the New Yorker. 3 Matthew Neill Null, Allegheny Front. Null's short story "Gauley Season" appeared an earlier Meta-Anthology entry of mine.
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A Skinseller's Workshop: Cuba after 57 Years of Fidel: Socialist Barbarism at Its Best (So Far)
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Political and Literary thoughts by Joseph Tomaras. List of publications to date. Sunday, November 27, 2016. Cuba after 57 Years of Fidel: Socialist Barbarism at Its Best (So Far). The Marxist hypothesis (as distinct from Alain Badiou's Communist Hypothesis. That the existence of classes. Is only bound up with particular historical phases in the development of production. That the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat. And to a classless society. The proletariat, required...
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A Skinseller's Workshop: March 2016
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Political and Literary thoughts by Joseph Tomaras. List of publications to date. Tuesday, March 1, 2016. 2015 Nebula Award Ballot. For the first time as a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, I am about to cast a ballot for the Nebula Awards. Here it goes:. Novel: The Fifth Season. By N K. Jemisin. None of the books I nominated made it to the final ballot in this category. Of the books that did, Jemisin's The Fifth Season. Collection, Paul Beatty's The Sellout. Many amazing short...
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A Skinseller's Workshop: Oversized Rock
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Political and Literary thoughts by Joseph Tomaras. List of publications to date. Wednesday, April 20, 2016. Getting accepted to Simon's Rock was the second-best thing to ever happen to me. The best thing was getting kicked out. Another way to put this is that it was a bad experience, but that it was likely a better bad experience than staying in high school would have been. Did I mention I was in Florida? I hated Florida. I still hate Florida. If so, is your kid out to you? If not, why not? I recommend i...
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A Skinseller's Workshop: November 2015
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Political and Literary thoughts by Joseph Tomaras. List of publications to date. Sunday, November 1, 2015. Agatha Christie as Science Fiction Writer. My wife is engaging in one of her obsessive, completist projects, attempting to read all novels ever published by Agatha Christie. She just completed The Big Four. First published in 1927, and then asked me when lasers were invented. The 1960s," I answered while peeling a carrot. (To be precise, the LASER was invented in 1960.). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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A Skinseller's Workshop: February 2016
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Political and Literary thoughts by Joseph Tomaras. List of publications to date. Friday, February 12, 2016. This year's Meta-Anthology is derived from Pushcart Prize XL. The Best American Short Stories 2015. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015. And The Best American Mystery Stories 2015. I also bought a copy of The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015. Richard Bausch, "Map-Reading". From Pushcart Prize XL. First published in Virginia Quarterly Review. First published in McSweeney's Quarterly. Julia...
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A Skinseller's Workshop: September 2015
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Political and Literary thoughts by Joseph Tomaras. List of publications to date. Friday, September 18, 2015. A Note on Reading Louise Erdrich. What could be worse than to never outgrow the tastes and preferences of your 15-year-old self? As an early college freshman, I was made to read something by Louise Erdrich. I don't remember exactly what. Perhaps an excerpt from Love Medicine. I have only taken up the reading of Erdrich in the last couple of years. Not yet Love Medicine. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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A Skinseller's Workshop: 2016 in Review
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Political and Literary thoughts by Joseph Tomaras. List of publications to date. Saturday, December 31, 2016. Good grief, what a year. Despite, or perhaps in some measure because, of that work of mourning, I did get some writing done, and did manage to get some of my writing published. To be precise, two new short stories of mine were published this year: "The Libidinal Economy of the Suburbs". And the May/June issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. My first published story, "Moose Season,...
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