archives for Friday 5 December 2008

sketches in the making

Friday 5 December 2008 | 2 cookies in the jar

Okay, I have to admit that I think this would be a kinda cool holiday gift. Not for us, though, since we don’t have a coffee table (or anywhere to sit. Maybe we could keep it in the kitchen?). Also, quite obviously, there’s no reason one couldn’t just get a big cheap hardbound sketchbook and [...]

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“about the note”

Friday 5 December 2008 | I like a cookie

One wonders, of course, what the note said. One wonders whether it was long and complicated, as his fiction was, whether it was characterized by the same endless loops of self-consciousness and self-ironizing gestures that one finds in, say, the brilliant stories “Octet” or “Good Old Neon.” One wonders whether he was able to find [...]

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