Normally, I'd try to have an offering for Patti Abbott's blog but as I am writing this from the comfort of Dundee where I am relaxing, I will just reiterate my birthday wish to request your help in keeping my books from being forgotten by liking, rating and reviewing them on Amazon, Goodreads, Shelfari and so forth. I would be most grateful!
Do it in the name of today's birthday kids, Jane Austen and Philip K. Dick, both of whom have been an influence on me.
This is the first blog post I've written on my phone. Let's see how it goes!
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Will do, most likely, at least at Amazon, since I'm not a member of GR or Shelfari...but might you consider a volume of the late Russell Hoban for next week? And now Hitchens has met the fate he's been expecting, too. And I've just finally made blog mention of Les Daniels's passing.
Enough m. mori. Happy b-day in the land of haggis.
Cheers, Todd. I'll have to check out the post on Les. such a nice man. I think I may have done KLEINZEIT for FFB and off the top of my head I'm not sure what I might do without a book in front of me other than RIDDLEY, then again after the NYT tepid obit, maybe USians need to be reminded that there's a lot more to Hoban than children's books. I was never a Hitchens fan: an asshole who shares your POV is still an asshole.
Oh, Hitchens was a jerk (even personally to me in a trivial way, once), but I still enjoyed his better writing. Worst comes to worst, WALKER wouldn't be the most outrageously UnForgotten book done in the roundelay. And Patti's citation of L. Colwin, dead at 48, and Bill Crider's of de Maupassant, at 43 I've just (re?)discovered, has put me in a State of Mind(lessness).
Hey, read my last Abbott challenge vignettes sometime?
Oh, I am a bad friend! can you resend them? Saved on the home computer. I promise, this weekend I will read and comment.
"Off Season"
"Slow Thursday Night"
...they're exercises, but they are short!
Done! Nice work there. Fine examples of ekphrasis.
Thanks for looking at them. In the pulp tradition (of writing stories to go with covers) as well as the larger literary traditions pulp magazines remain an important expression of...
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