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Can you smell what the Rock is cooking?
12.21.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Various:
I have a heavy bag and a speed bag set up in the basement. It’s useful exercise to punch things that won’t hit back. Yesterday evening I was rat-a-tatting on the speed bag when the internal bladder popped. Reactions: ‘bladder’ is a funny word; I flinched and ducked like I was having a flashback to [...]
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N.B.A.
11.16.07 | Permalink | Comment?

I see that Sherman Alexie has won a National Book Award this year. Good on him; it’s absurd but I feel a personal pride when a writer whose work I really like wins a major award. I suppose it’s the same feeling that comes from backing a winning horse, minus the payout and the years of [...]
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Nth-rate Post
10.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

I think Lessing might turn out to be an inspiration to all authors. Besides her admirable disdain for the Nobel Prize and its process, apparently lately she has been writing “fourth-rate science fiction”. Does that mean third-rate or better SF will become deserving of wider acclaim? Perhaps not, as the quotation is from professional cultural [...]
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Prizes and Gifts
10.11.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

I’ve not read anything by Doris Lessing that I recall, so I don’t have any opinion whether or not she might be worthy of the prize announced today. However I do have to wonder if any writer still alive really deserves the Nobel more than John Updike. I recently read The Collected Henry Bech and clever man [...]
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Lookie thar
08.17.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Hey ho, Chochachos, Mrs The Fyd has a new blog, here. In other news, I am reading Peter Brown’s The Making of Late Antiquity and I wish I was that smart.

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