Rob Walker's Blog, page 14
August 8, 2010
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-08-08
at The Book Review in L.I. http://bit.ly/aKuvZA #Rave Francine Prose review of Hans Keilson novels, one (Comedy in a Minor Key...
August 6, 2010
Significant Objects Meme (16)
Regency TR1 First Pocket Radio
by Mark Richards
Moore's law runs the computer industry and has begun to determine the pace of human life as well. As the pace quickens, we rush to embrace the future as much as we race to discard the past. The technology I've photographed shows just the beginning of the computer and Internet age. Generations of computer design and beauty have been lost, undocumented, and as time continues, many more generations of this hidden art will continue t...
August 5, 2010
August 3, 2010
Author Updates
1) Andrew Ervin published a story in Monkeybicycle last month, and — looking ahead — his first book, Extraordinary Renditions (Coffee House Press), will be out in September.
2) On August 4, Rebecca Coffey's flash piece, "From the Notebook of John T. Cacciopo", is appearing in Metazen. Excerpt: "Even cockroaches develop psychological problems if they are denied a normal social life."
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August 2, 2010
Booker Prize 2010
We're thrilled to report that a novel by one of our authors — Tom McCarthy — was included on the Man Booker Prize 2010 longlist. That novel is titled C.
According to the Booker website,
C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who – as his name suggests – surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him.
Born to the sound of one of the very earliest experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself...
Significant Objects Meme (15)
Ton Zwerver's "Everyday Sculptures" only exist for a moment "as they are photographed and changed again and again. Everyday one or more sculptures are made out found objects that come across his path."
Fifteenth in an occasional series.
August 1, 2010
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-08-01
July 31, 2010
Author Updates
1) Stephen O'Connor's collection of stories, Here Comes Another Lesson, will be published on August 3rd by Free Press. Most of the publication-related events will occur in September. Click here to read advance reviews.
2) Stewart O'Nan is editing his next novel, Emily, Alone, which will be out next March from Viking.
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