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Category Archives: Literary Endeavors
Contested
I may have mentioned this before several thousand times, but I’ve written a novel. It’s called Hang A Crooked Number. Here is what I say about the novel to people who may wish to represent or publish it: Backstop lives … Read on! —->
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Tagged amazon breakthrough novel contest, baseball, hang a crooked number, novels, spies
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The New Quadruple-A Landscape of Writing
One thing I love about writing is that it can demonstrate someone being remarkably perceptive and oblivious all at once. To witness this phenomenon, read Stephen Marche’s latest piece for Esquire, in which he attempts to argue that we live … Read on! —->
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Tagged 50 shades of gray, esquire, j.k. Rowling, lena dunham, novels, Stephen Marche, Tom Wolfe, writing
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Curate Yourself! Starring Jonah Lehrer
Jonah Lehrer resigned from The New Yorker after it was discovered he’d fabricated a series of “quotes” from Bob Dylan. Thinking you could get away with putting words in the mouth of the most obsessively studied songwriter of the last … Read on! —->
Yells For Ourselves Available at iTunes
Last week, The Classical published an excerpt from Yells For Ourselves, an alternate history of the 1999-2000 New York Mets. Once again, if you’re curious what “alternate history” means and why this subject warrants one, I direct you to the … Read on! —->
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Tagged apple, ebooks, ipad, itunes, itunes store, new york mets, reviews, yells for ourselves
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Ebook Seeks Readers for Touchscreen Fun
For the past few forevers, I’ve been working on an ebook called Yells For Ourselves, a multi-volume alternate history of the 1999-2000 Mets. For more info on exactly what that “alternate history” means, you can glean more details at this … Read on! —->
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Tagged 1999, 2000, apple, ebooks, gumroad, ibooks, ibooks author, ibookstore, new york mets, yells for ourselves
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Discarded Markers
You probably don’t know what this is. I didn’t know what it was when I first saw it. This comes from a coworker of mine, who was cleaning out her desk and decided she could finally part with this register … Read on! —->
Soundtracking
I think I’ve mentioned this before, but writing a novel is kind of hard. One the main reasons it is so hard is the time needed to complete it, time that can be spent in so many ways that don’t … Read on! —->
Posted in Literary Endeavors, Tuneage
Tagged ahmad jamal, bill evans, creedence clearwater revival, cupid car club, deerhoof, eccentric soul, elvis costello, frank black, frank zappa, fucked up, george harrison, guided by voices, jawbox, jay reatard, job's daughters, johnny thunders, life detecting coffins, love and a short leash, lung leg, michael shelley, mikal cronin, miles davis, novel, numero, r.e.m., reigning sound, rex, saturday night fish fry, spoon, ted leo, teenage fanclub, terre t, the buzzcocks, the make-up, the minutemen, the monorchid, the mountain goats, the new pornographers, thee oh sees, ty segall, unrest, wfmu, writing, xtc
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The Finish Line
This weekend, this happened. Which is to say, Love and a Short Leash, the novel I wrote about here and have been mentioning obliquely and incessantly in various social media platforms is finally complete. Now it is ready to take … Read on! —->
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Tagged brooklyn college, fiction, love and a short leash, MFA, michael cunningham, novels, writing
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Working
I recently acquired new dresser drawers, something I do maybe once a decade. This necessitated relocating the top drawer of my old dresser, which was basically my Treasured Memories Trove. I never looked at any of this stuff, mind you. … Read on! —->
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Tagged fiction, heroes, MFA, novels, writing
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For-Real Interviews: Craig Robinson
In America, baseball is, sadly, often seen as the brussels sprouts of sports: something that must be consumed because it’s good for you. Many people view the sport as obligation rather than entertainment, something you are required to take your … Read on! —->