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Dispatches from a little literary life - book reviews, reading guides, essays, and more.

Happy Birthday to Me!

Thoughts on being ageless and immemorial

20 Nov 2023 3 min read

Readings for October 22, 2023

I’m not entirely sure what to think of this prickly pair of interviews, but it was striking to read the New York Times interview with the filmmaker Errol Morris on Sunday and the Literary Hub interview with the author Benjamin Labatut on Monday. Both are reluctant interviewees: Morris gets

22 Oct 2023 4 min read

Readings for October 8, 2023

Like a collection of teeny essays

08 Oct 2023 5 min read

Readings for September 24, 2023

A grab bag of useful and strange stuff

24 Sep 2023 3 min read

Readings for September 17, 2023

and writings, and publishings

17 Sep 2023 3 min read

Miraculous Nuns of the 7th and 21st Centuries

A rare moment when an Old English story is relevant

13 Sep 2023 3 min read

A Writer's Vacation

Roland Barthes has thoughts

03 Sep 2023 4 min read

Readings for August 27, 2023

Actually, let's do listenings

27 Aug 2023 3 min read

Book Review: How We Do It

A kaleidoscopic new book on the craft of writing

13 Aug 2023 3 min read

Agency of Influence

A 50-year-old Tiptree novella predicts influencer culture

06 Aug 2023 6 min read

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

Turn and face the strange. The Useful & Strange.

30 Jul 2023 3 min read

Coming Soon: Book Reviews!

aka, I'm going to tackle my TBR pile

30 Jul 2023 1 min read

A Tale of Freelancers Replaced by AI

A real-life, first-person adventure

24 Jul 2023 3 min read

Readings for June 28, 2023

I've got a lot to share this month

29 Jun 2023 5 min read

Translating Mogador

01 Jun 2023 4 min read

Readings for May 22, 2023

A Behind-the-Scenes Theme

22 May 2023 4 min read

Readings for May 14, 2023

And some newsy things

14 May 2023 3 min read

Readings for April 25, 2023

Better late than never

25 Apr 2023 4 min read

Readings for April 10, 2023

Thoughts on the internet and electronics and one book recommendation

10 Apr 2023 3 min read

A Tale of Being Incorrect

03 Apr 2023 4 min read

Readings for March 26, 2023

A real potpourri of reading

26 Mar 2023 4 min read

Readings for March 12, 2023

Including advice from me on revising your novel

12 Mar 2023 3 min read

Digging into Metaphors

A close look at one metaphor in The New Life by Tom Crewe

01 Mar 2023 3 min read

Readings for February 26, 2023

On AI robots and library holds. And books in fun shapes.

26 Feb 2023 4 min read

Readings for February 12, 2023

I read a lot in the last two weeks, I guess

12 Feb 2023 5 min read

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