Timothy Green's Blog
May 5, 2009
Yesterday I gave a new (for me) example of what fractals are — objects for which scale is irrelevant, because the same patterns repeat over and over again regardless of scale. Viewed from above, a photograph of a barren desert could be a mile wide or a meter, and there’s no way to tell the difference.
The idea for the book — and I won’t deny that it’s a mostly post-hoc idea that I contorted a collection of poems around — is that American culture exhibits the structure of a fractal. Viewed from a
May 4, 2009
April 28, 2009
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Time: 7:00pm - 8:40pm
Location: Barnes and Noble, 3rd St. Promenade
Street: 1201 3rd Street
City/Town: Santa Monica, CA
Tonight I’m reading with Jamey Hecht, author of Limousine Midnight Blue: Fifty Frames from the Zapruder Film, at an event someone’s calling “Elegies for America.” I don’t know if there’s a poet I respect more than Jamey — he woke up to the political realities of the U.S. long before I did, and rather than cower in silence, or tiptoe around the tru
April 27, 2009
Haven’t been posting lately, too busy being busy and important, as my wife would say. The only way I’m going to keep posting here is if I start to ignore the fact that what I’m posting is mindless muck at the bottom of my brain, so let’s hop to it.
I spent all day Saturday at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Big annual shindig sprawling across the fairly gorgeous UCLA campus. 60,000 blokes and 600,000 books. I couldn’t believe that UCLA would think to have guided tours for prospective
April 17, 2009
April 14, 2009
Whether you believe they learned their lesson, fixed the glitch, or locked the back door, Amazon has acted swiftly, as any morally conscious human and/or profit-driven retail corporation should. Joel Tan’s Type O Negative is back to being ranked, and now comes up third on the search list, like it should.
Since I complained about Amazon.com yesterday — and who knows, maybe it really was just a hack — I thought I’d take a second today to say what’s really awesome about that website. I was looking
April 12, 2009
This whole Amazon.com censorship scandal that’s been quickly exploding all Easter Sunday really is as bad as it seems, and contrary to what I was reading about it at first, it seems to me like a nearly transparent form of LGBT discrimination. Really brief summary: Amazon.com has removed “adult content” books from their rankings list. That seems like a questionable decision on it’s own, but add to that the fact that their use of the “adult” label is ridiculously inconsistent, and that the rankin
April 10, 2009
April 3, 2009
March 30, 2009
I’m proud to announce that my lovely wife and Rattle’s assistant editor Megan O’Reilly Green’s chapbook, The Beaded Curtain, is now available for preorder from Spire Press. We don’t have any cover shots or blurbs yet — frankly, we’re surprised to learn that it’s coming out in June(?); we were thinking it’d probably be the fall. But I can tell you that, in all honesty and with a bit of jealousy, that her collection of poems is better than mine — more thematically tight and polished, each poem f
