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Fenway Fiction Reading and Signing, October 18th 2008

Adam Pacther and Matthew Hanlon will be reading and signing copies of Fenway Fiction and Further Fenway Fiction Saturday, October 18th, 2008 at 1pm at Charlton Public Library.

Bring your copies of either Fenway Fiction, maybe get a sneak peek of the third installment of the series, and watch us shake so many hands you’ll think [...]

Robin Hemley on the Faux Memoir

A good read on the phenomenon of fake memoirs… not just recently, but throughout history.
CRITICAL MASS: Guest Post: Robin Hemley on the Faux Memoir:
I suggest we apply a new litmus test to the works of “memoir” we read. If the fact that this story really happened is the only thing that recommends it, then let’s [...]

Has this become a Kindle Blog or what?

All I seem to talk about here, these days, is Kindle. But this article: “Despite hurdles e-books face, E Ink Corp. of Cambridge has come into its own supplying electronic paper“, in today’s Business section of the Globe, is worth reading.
And this little zing from Carolyn Y. Johnson in the article had me snorting DD’s [...]

More on Kindle

Just when I get around to making a post (albeit a lame one) about Kindle, Sean Lindsay comes up with an excellent review/response to the Kindle launch.
101 Reasons to Stop Writing : » Where’s the Fire? Amazon’s ‘Kindle’ Fizzles
Pundits have been predicting for years that ebooks and ebook devices will eventually, finally, [...]

Kindle and the Coming Age of Ebooks

Okay, I don’t want to sound like Sven Birkerts, (God help me, let me never sound like Sven — and by no means consider that link as an endorsement of the book at the end of it), but I agree with Chip Kidd when he dumps this post on us:
A Brief Message: Notify the Next [...]

“The Interchanging of Atoms”

★ Samwise rides again » Blog Archive » What the … Bi-cycle-sexual ★:
From Aunty …
A man caught trying to have sex with his bicycle has been sentenced
I would bet serious money (or at least a drink) on this guy having ridden (not like that) for far too long on bicycles in the [...]

Borders Book Club: Michael Chabon

Borders Book Club: Michael Chabon:
Chabon’s book is a smart homage to ’40s noir and an earnest reflection on lives in exile
This was actually a pretty interesting video book club meeting with Michael Chabon about his latest book… I figured, upon seeing the mail from Borders, that I would maybe watch the first clip or so, [...]

Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Writer Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84:
One of the outstanding figures of modern US literature, Kurt Vonnegut, has died aged 84 in New York.
What a royal bummer.
“Destiny Calling“, a short story I wrote and sent to Kurt after finishing Timequake (Kurt Jr. Vonnegut) (got off the plane from London, took the [...]

James Sallis – the Lew Griffin series

This is more for reference than anything, when I recommend this series to people.
The order is:

The Long-Legged Fly
Moth
Black Hornet
Eye of the Cricket
Bluebottle
Ghost of a Flea

Well, well worth reading.