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American Book Review

Davis Schneiderman reviews Questionstruck with Tom LaFarge's Administrative Assemblages in the July/Aug issue of American Book Review .

Is Trillin Flashlight Worthy?

My list of Calvin Trillin's top five Flashlight Worthy books is appearing at Flashlight Worthy Books.

Seeing Trillin Everywhere

Maybe I've spent too much time with Calvin Trillin's books, but I think Jeff Dunham's dummy Walter looks just like Trillin?

Rudy Bloom @ Mud Luscious

"Rudy Bloom", a derived text sourced from Ulysses, by James Joyce, is up today as part of Mud Luscious #7. This piece is a remembrance of the Bloom's son, Rudy, who died shortly after his birth. Issue #7 also features new work from Molly Gaudry, David Erlewine, Sean Lovelace, Barry Graham, Jennifer Pieroni, Liz Hall, Peter Berghoef, Sean Ruane, Sara Reihani, P.H. Madore, C.L. Bledsoe, Nathaniel Tower, Ryan W. Bradley, Ravi Mangla, Shome Dasgupta, Zachary C. Bush, Lydia Copeland, Conor Robin Mad

One Two Three @ Flatmancrooked

Flatmancrooked is running "One Two Three", a text derived from Ulysses by James Joyce.

This piece tracks Joyce's use of one-, two-, and three-word sentences in the opening three chapters of the novel, The Telemachiad, which precede Bloom's appearance and serve as a brief sequel to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I've fooled around with sentence order but kept the three chapters distinct.

Bloomsday is almost half over! So Check It Out!

Flushed Flung Fluttered @ Keyhole

Keyhole is running a piece called "Flushed Flung Fluttered", a derived text sourced from James Joyce's Ulysses.
The piece tracks Joyce's use of these three "fl" verbs, which are also common in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and which seem melodramatic and very 19th Century. Happy Bloomsday...

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Square @ Monkeybicycle

"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Sqaure" is running at Monkeybicycle this week.

It is a text derived from Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The piece tracks Joyce's use of the square, the primary (perhaps even defining) shape occurring in the novel: circles appear only five times; there is only one mention of the triangle; and the rectangle, four-sided cousin to the square, is not mentioned at all! Yes, the square is certainly an important symbol in A Portrait of the Artist as a Y

Questionstruck Book Notes @ Largehearted Boy

Largehearted Boy, my favorite lit/music blog, is running a Book Notes playlist for Questionstruck.

In the Book Notes feature, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Some recent authors featured include Norah Labiner, John Wray, Timmy Waldron, Joe Meno, Brian Evenson, Dean Wareham, Kathleen Rooney, and many, many others.

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Interview vs. Ryan Manning over at Thunk.

Interview vs. Ryan Manning over at Thunk. [image error]

Question Man at Apostrophe Cast

Reading "Question Man" at Apostrophe Cast. This one is derived from Calvin Trillin's 1998 memoir, Family Man. Check it out. [image error]