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March 13, 2013
March 12, 2013
GUN MACHINE Promoted Again At Barnes & Noble
Listen, if you’re in America, haven’t bought a copy of GUN MACHINE yet but intend to pick one up, there’s a thing. Barnes & Noble – GUN MACHINE was on their Best Sellers list all through January – are re-upping their promotion on the book. The book is going back on their New Releases tables from March 12 for about ten days. If you intend to buy one and don’t have a commitment elsewhere (like, a promised sale to an indie bookstore), it’d help me out if you bought one from B&N next week. It would certainly make my publisher very happy. In any case, I understand it’s quite unusual for a book to go back into the New Releases displays at this point in their cycle, so, you know, tell your friends or something…
(My publisher, Mulholland Books, would like to add that your relatives probably want copies, but they may not have mentioned it to you, so you should totally go ahead and buy them copies. I do not know how my publisher knows this. Perhaps they have special powers. It may be best not to argue with them.)
March 11, 2013
booklist 2013: HARVEST, Jim Crace
It’s a difficult book to talk about, somehow.
It is, in its essence, a book about a change of time. It is about a village on the cusp of eras, shifting from the medieval to the recognisably pre-modern world of enclosures and commercial farming. When you’re in the middle of such shifts, you don’t necessarily see what is to be gained, only what is to be lost. And the agents of those changes see only what is to be gained. Perhaps there is a suggestion that this, too, is the action of nature, as sure as the turn of seasons and as pitiless. There remains only to perform a final framing of how life used to be.
What matters, with this book, is the language. This is a thing of beautiful, sad sentences, golden like evenings at the end of summer. It’s said to be intended as Crace’s final work of fiction, and it is a great summoning of powers at the close of the day. Magnificent.
Bookmarks for 2013-03-11
"The results are "quite strange," Oppenheimer said. "These warm, red planets are unlike any other known object in our universe. All four planets have different spectra, and all four are peculiar. The theorists have a lot of work to do now.""
(tags:space )
Team discovers adaptations to explain strategies for survival on Mars
"Research from the University of Maryland School of Medicine has revealed key features in proteins needed for life to function on Mars and other extreme environments."
(tags:space )
Astrobiologists Find Ancient Fossils in Fireball Fragments | MIT Technology Review
"They say the stones contain fossilised biological structures fused into the rock matrix and that their tests clearly rule out the possibility of terrestrial contamination. "
(tags:space )
Saint Death becoming more popular in the US
"It is believed that 5 percent of the Mexican population worships the saint, whose other names include Holy Death, The White Girl, The Miracle Worker, and The Skinny Girl."
(tags:cult )
Support Cells Found in Human Brain Make Mice Smarter – News Room – University of Rochester Medical Center
"In humans, individual astrocytes project scores of fibers that can simultaneously connect with large numbers of neurons, and in particular their synapses, the points of communication where two adjoining neurons meet. "
(tags:neuro )
Franken-Teeth | Ultraphyte
"So how do they know the teeth are “human”?"
(tags:med )
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