More Texty
23 November 2005No, OK.
Archive for November, 2005
Yarnspinner Masterpieces
22 November 2005A couple weeks ago The New Yorker had an eight-page special advertising section in it, taken out by Bantam Dell. The section begins with this copy: Great writers are great storytellers: they are rarely at a loss for words. The ability to unravel a yarn, deliver an adventure, and bring a voice alive is what [...]
Basil Hargrave’s Vermifuge
16 November 2005I just got How to Write Short Stories [with Samples], by Ring Lardner (Scribner, 1924). The book is a collection of Lardner’s stories; the joke of the ironic title (suggested, apparently, by the author’s friend, F. Scott Fitzgerald) is built on with both a preface that purports to explain the art, and brief introductions to [...]
Getting the Word Out
14 November 2005Some of you reading this might know one or the other of these things already, but I’ve been continuing to act as a vector, if that’s the right word, for Movable Type: 1) I made a blog for Soft Skull, here. (It’s not perfect—figuring out how to perfectly integrate it with the rest of the [...]
In the Off Season
6 November 2005A bike ride for cheese fries.
Some Intersections
1 November 2005Indoors and outside.