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September Song

September 12, 2020

“We’re not even halfway through the month yet, but September has been quite a ride so far. Amazingly enough, even in the midst of the fire-ravaged, virus-plagued hellscape of late summer 2020, I have a couple of launches to be happy about, and I am hella grateful.” The new issue of my newsletter is out,… Continue reading »

Nine Signs You Need a New Gig

July 20, 2018

I love this photo, taken in the early 1940s, of a skilled shop technician at the Douglas Aircraft factory in Long Beach, Calif, where they made B-17s and other aircraft used in World War II. The image is beautiful in itself, but the woman in it also looks fully absorbed in what she’s doing. The… Continue reading »

Data Love and Internet Hell

December 6, 2016

I have the lead essay (“Internet of Stings”) in the Dec. 2nd Times Literary Supplement, writing about four books that lay out the risks (and a few of the rewards) of the way we live online: “In this post-factual, truth-averse era, many of the destinations that draw us online have become unsafe spaces, hostile and treacherous,… Continue reading »

Pictures of You

April 29, 2016

Like a lot of people, I don’t enjoy having my picture taken. Hold on. I typed “like a lot of people” almost automatically, as one of those thumbsucker openings that allows a writer to warm up before diving into what he/she/ze really means to say. As soon as I wrote it, though, I started to wonder…. Continue reading »

Coding and “Computhors”

October 16, 2014

Is this internet killing books? What do poetry and software have in common? Can computers write literature? The Times Literary Supplement asked me to write about three books that take up those questions: The Edge of the Precipice: Why read literature in the digital age?, edited by Paul Socken; Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software,… Continue reading »

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  • “A paler shade of white”: HAVING AND BEING HAD by Eula Biss (review)
  • “Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?”
  • “The Complicated Role of the Modern Public Library”

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