I’m toying with the idea of reading a couple of articles in From Homer to Hypertext: Studies in Narrative, Literature and Media. And I’m very amused that Amazon recommends ‘laurell k. hamilton’, ‘paranormal romances’ and ‘dark hunter series’ as similar products. I now have a vision of narratologists sinking their sharpened fangs into the alabaster [...]
Aspiring authors of the Anglophone persuasion, take note:
Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin, (..) gets four or so [manuscripts] a week - despite a note on the website that declares “Sadly, we’re unable to consider unsolicited manuscripts. The best way to find a publisher is through an agent.” These four are given to people in [...]
Aspiring authors of the Anglophone persuasion, take note:
Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin, (..) gets four or so [manuscripts] a week - despite a note on the website that declares “Sadly, we’re unable to consider unsolicited manuscripts. The best way to find a publisher is through an agent.” These four are given to people in [...]
Monday. So far this Monday has brought me blue skies, sunshine, absolute silence, an important letter and a book which I finished in less than two hours. I like this sort of Monday.
The book was Scarlett Thomas’s Going Out which easily summed up as a light UK version of early Douglas Coupland novels. I do [...]
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Posted 01 September 2008
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I promised E. that I’d list the podcasts I like. I’m relatively new to podcasts (I’m slow on the uptake), so I’m yet to build up a list of definitive favourites. If someone has recommendations, I’d be happy to hear them!
Left Field Cinema is an intelligent podcast looking at both arthouse cinema (like Kieslowski) and [...]
Some time ago my partner, David, bought us tickets for the one-year anniversary of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School - a burlesque-meets-art school monthly event. David and a pirate had attended a previous Dr. Sketchy’s and loved it.
What happened? A lot, I tell you. I sang along to Cole Porter songs and my partner produced [...]
Following on from yesterday’s Chomsky snippet, here is an article asking Can You Teach Your Kid To Have Taste? The premise is that a classical music reviewer has been dragging his ten-year-old son along to work and has begun wondering how that influences his son’s taste in music/art/literature. The kid likes Tolkien, Russell Crowe westerns [...]
Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died.
I read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich last year. I didn’t enjoy it but I’m sure that was entirely intentional.
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Posted 03 August 2008
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I may have injured my wrist through too much knitting. Yes. Really. I’m going to see my doctor tomorrow for my usual ‘why do I keep keeling over, Doctor McKay?’ thing and might just ask him about my poor overworked wrists. I suspect the answer may be to lay off with the knitting for some [...]
No word on release date (of course), but there’s actual footage now: Diablo III is finally happening. Quick, are frogs falling from the sky?
Addendum: it feels weird adding this to a post on a computer game, but Danish author, Jacob Ejersbo has passed away.
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