Sunday, January 16, 2011

THIS DOES NOT SEEM STRANGE TO ME, IT DOES NOT SEEM STRANGE TO AN ECHO AND MORE SURELY IS IN THERE NOT BEING A HABIT

Broadcast are an uncommon, perfect thing made of nought but pure predilection and Trish Keenan, who died on Friday, has been the subject of almost every disassociative identity flight of fancy I've had since about 1995.









THE STRANGEST CANCER STORY EVER

SOMETHING INTIMATE IS GOING ON



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I TOOK A PICTURE OF 1997 AND IT TURNED  OUT LIKE        THIS.

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SHIMMER ON SLUG BROWN

THESE PAINTINGS. (WHAT PAINTINGS?)

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Taking the tinfoil hat off - momentarily, I promise - and putting my "professional" (ahem) hat on, here is some work-related news:

GIVING THE HORNET'S NEST A BIT OF A POKE NEWS
With impeccable timing, we began a series of seminars called "The Uses of Literature" - intended as an attempt to hash out why exactly we do this bloody thing we do and, of course, to take issue with the unacceptably utilitarian, actually terms of the question itself - on the same day the Comprehensive Spending Review was announced. We've done four now, with another tranche of speakers to follow this term, and it'sbeen spirited, heartening and even rather passionate. Heck, we've even started streaming 'em online, take a look:
http://inventionsofthetext.blogspot.com/

INCORRIGIBLE SELF PROMOTION NEWS
I reviewed Tom McCarthy's good-but-not-as-good-as-Remainder novel, C, for the Review of Contemporary Fiction here.

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