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Babylon Blues: November 2010
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Babylon, and on and on and on. Sunday, November 21, 2010. WHAT WE READ ABOUT WHEN WE READ ABOUT LOVE. What do we read about when we read about love? More precisely: What do writers read about when writers read about love? Expertise in a domain comes with changed perceptions. Aaron Kozbelt did that study.). So too, it seems to me, has the writer's eye and ear been twisted; his sense of rhythm sharpened: Sounds seep more sweetly in his soul. So when we writers read about love, we do not read about love: We...
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Babylon Blues: April 2011
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Babylon, and on and on and on. Tuesday, April 19, 2011. Like many Belgians, I was baptized Catholic as a baby. Judging from all the news trickling in from the home country (e.g., now. I got lucky in my dealings with priests as a child, but many others weren't. But with the recent wave of stories about child abuse within the church, the repeated cover-ups, and the lack of any serious punishment of the perpetrators, one starts to think. All of those premises can only lead to one conclusion. Which makes me,...
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Babylon Blues: August 2011
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Babylon, and on and on and on. Wednesday, August 10, 2011. WHERE I AM FROM. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Midtown Atlanta, GA. View my complete profile. WHERE I AM FROM. Review in The New Statesman. Piece in The Guardian. Piece in The Independent. Interview @ Splice Today. TIME piece on Omega Minor. Review of Omega Minor from Raintaxi. Review of Omega Minor in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Review of Omega Minor in The Independent. Review of Omega Minor at The Complete Review.
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Babylon Blues: March 2012
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Babylon, and on and on and on. Monday, March 19, 2012. Because life is life and art is art and life is fleeting but art sure isn’t, I am not doing much labor in the Department of Fine Letters these days, concentrating instead on the muchly more pressing matters of Life. So I don’t take on new commissions, because what’s the point. Pelckman Publishers yesterday did send an intriguing one my way, however: a five page contribution to a Dutch-language book to be called ‘ Mijn Amerika. Labels: big brass balls.
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Babylon Blues: May 2013
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Babylon, and on and on and on. Monday, May 27, 2013. The a-priori odds that exactly you are reading exactly this sentence at this very moment are basically nil, but simply by writing this sentence, I forced them to approximate infinity. Its a zen thing. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Midtown Atlanta, GA. View my complete profile. Review in The New Statesman. Piece in The Guardian. Piece in The Independent. Interview @ Splice Today. TIME piece on Omega Minor. Review of Omega Minor from Raintaxi.
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Babylon Blues: February 2011
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Babylon, and on and on and on. Tuesday, February 22, 2011. Depends' is usually a very good answer to any bifurcating question, except when the question is: 'Boxers or briefs? Labels: all immigrants are suckers for puns. Monday, February 7, 2011. PAINT A VULGAR PICTURE. Saw this in De Standaard:. Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij brengt op 30 oktober, de eerste sterfdag van schrijver Harry Mulisch, een onvoltooide novelle van zijn hand uit. Het werk, met de titel De tijd zelf. The Discovery of Heaven. No doubt hei...
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Babylon Blues: August 2013
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Babylon, and on and on and on. Tuesday, August 6, 2013. Episode Five-and-a-Half*, in which the Erstwhile Novelist Strays from the Path to 'do' a Scientific Monograph so Obscure that, After Having Received the Author Copies, the Erstwhile Novelist will have Exhausted Half the Stock. Three years overdue, but finally on Amazon. So it must be official:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Midtown Atlanta, GA. View my complete profile. Review in The New Statesman. Piece in The Guardian. Piece in The Independent.
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Babylon Blues: December 2010
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Babylon, and on and on and on. Wednesday, December 15, 2010. INTERNET QUOTE OF THE DAY. Rret donc d'niaser 'vec mon sirop d'erable, calis, si j't'r'vois icitte j'pellerais la police, tu l'veras l'criss de poutine de cul t'auras en prison, tabarnak. Labels: dont mess with my maple syrup. Tuesday, December 14, 2010. Time is G*d's way of making life pleasurable: The sweet thrill of anticipation. Friday, December 3, 2010. IT'S EMPHATICALLY NOT THE TITLE'S FAULT. Comes to the following conclusion:. Dalkey Arc...
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Babylon Blues: July 2012
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Babylon, and on and on and on. Tuesday, July 3, 2012. You don't need a diamond saw. To cut through the crap. A butter knife will do. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Midtown Atlanta, GA. View my complete profile. Review in The New Statesman. Piece in The Guardian. Piece in The Independent. Interview @ Splice Today. TIME piece on Omega Minor. Review of Omega Minor from Raintaxi. Review of Omega Minor in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Review of Omega Minor in The Independent. Bookslut - great literary blog.
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Babylon Blues: October 2012
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Babylon, and on and on and on. Wednesday, October 31, 2012. When he was four, my son gave me a little cardboard box, festooned with ribbons. He took a peek through a slit. Dark inside, he said. You gave me a box of darkness? When we opened it, we found nothing of the sort. Glorious honey-toned daylight, festooned with ribbons still. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Midtown Atlanta, GA. View my complete profile. Review in The New Statesman. Piece in The Guardian. Piece in The Independent.
