Literature
Okay, a few more recent things:
Ian Bogost and I have been developing a very exciting new series of books and essays called Object Lessons. Ian made a lovely teaser poster for the series. The full site with information for submitting proposals will be live, with any luck, by early June.
Over the past couple months I've written three brief book reviews for the New Orleans Review, where I'm the new book review editor. One is a review of a favorite (and out of print) book I read as a kid; another is of a thoroughly enjoyable place-based exploration of New York by Justin Nobel; and the third is of a newly published transcript of a fascinating interview with Michel Foucault conducted in 1968. Have you read something recently that you'd like to write about? Or is there something new coming out that you'd like to read with an eye to review? I'm happy to consider all sorts of reviews of new and revisited books, either in short form or essay format.
I wrote a very short piece for The Rumpus "readers report back" column?scroll down to the fifth entry to see mine. This piece is sad and serious, playful yet loaded with bigger questions that I'm puzzling over in other contexts.
I'm up in Michigan now, working on my writing projects while also getting out into the woods and taking walks on the shoreline. Here's the satellite view of where I am:
- Ends Of Things
film equipment for The End of the Tour at the Muskegon Airport in Michigan I wrote about the film The End of the Tour for 3:AM Magazine. I can't tell if the current hype around David Foster Wallace?spurred on by the film and countless reviews...
- What I Did This Summer: Connections & Reconnections
This summer has been a series of connections and reconnections for me. I've been up in Michigan, where I had planned to work on my book on the region, which I'm tentatively calling Notes from the Sleeping Bear. But instead of writing much on...
- Object Lessons
Ian Bogost and I have just officially launched our new series of essays and books, Object Lessons. Read, play, propose an essay or a book! ...
- New Book Cover
I'm really pleased to show off the slightly modified cover for the paperback edition of my book, which will be out in a month or so! The book has been re-branded by Bloomsbury, at I'm very happy with how they tweaked the cover for their imprint....
- In The Thick Of It, Visualizing My Writing Cabin
Last month I read D.T. Max's biography of David Foster Wallace, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story, and my review of the book appears on the recently revamped site of the New Orleans Review. I enjoy writing book reviews; they are exercises...
Literature
A few more recent things
Okay, a few more recent things:
Ian Bogost and I have been developing a very exciting new series of books and essays called Object Lessons. Ian made a lovely teaser poster for the series. The full site with information for submitting proposals will be live, with any luck, by early June.
Over the past couple months I've written three brief book reviews for the New Orleans Review, where I'm the new book review editor. One is a review of a favorite (and out of print) book I read as a kid; another is of a thoroughly enjoyable place-based exploration of New York by Justin Nobel; and the third is of a newly published transcript of a fascinating interview with Michel Foucault conducted in 1968. Have you read something recently that you'd like to write about? Or is there something new coming out that you'd like to read with an eye to review? I'm happy to consider all sorts of reviews of new and revisited books, either in short form or essay format.
I wrote a very short piece for The Rumpus "readers report back" column?scroll down to the fifth entry to see mine. This piece is sad and serious, playful yet loaded with bigger questions that I'm puzzling over in other contexts.
I'm up in Michigan now, working on my writing projects while also getting out into the woods and taking walks on the shoreline. Here's the satellite view of where I am:
- Ends Of Things
film equipment for The End of the Tour at the Muskegon Airport in Michigan I wrote about the film The End of the Tour for 3:AM Magazine. I can't tell if the current hype around David Foster Wallace?spurred on by the film and countless reviews...
- What I Did This Summer: Connections & Reconnections
This summer has been a series of connections and reconnections for me. I've been up in Michigan, where I had planned to work on my book on the region, which I'm tentatively calling Notes from the Sleeping Bear. But instead of writing much on...
- Object Lessons
Ian Bogost and I have just officially launched our new series of essays and books, Object Lessons. Read, play, propose an essay or a book! ...
- New Book Cover
I'm really pleased to show off the slightly modified cover for the paperback edition of my book, which will be out in a month or so! The book has been re-branded by Bloomsbury, at I'm very happy with how they tweaked the cover for their imprint....
- In The Thick Of It, Visualizing My Writing Cabin
Last month I read D.T. Max's biography of David Foster Wallace, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story, and my review of the book appears on the recently revamped site of the New Orleans Review. I enjoy writing book reviews; they are exercises...