Author: Alex Irvine
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You Mean All Is Not Lost?
According to the NYT…well, according to the NEA, as quoted and written about in the NYT, more people are reading literature (defined for these purposes as fiction/poetry/drama) for the first time in 26 years. Quoth NEA chair Dana Gioia: “Cultural decline is not inevitable.” Is there an actual turn back in the direction of reading?…
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Skeptical Toward Theory
Paul Kincaid begins his latest Science Fiction Skeptic column at Bookslut with the following: I am, as Adam Roberts would delight in pointing out to me, an amateur of science fiction. That is, in terms of this criticism lark, I am not an academic. This does, however, have its advantages. It means, for example, that…
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Man, There Are Some Good Stories in Here
And I’m not even talking about mine. Because of a shipping snafu, I just got my copy, and it was worth the wait: 2pm: The Real Estate Agent Arrives by Steve Rasnic TemEven the Pawn by Joel LaneLast Man by Mick ScullyUnlucky by Lisa MortonAppearances by Murray Shelmerdine101 Ways to Leave Paris by Simon Avery…
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Phoenix Article Up
Ah, bylined in the Phoenix again. This is a cool project; it’ll be interesting to see how it all turns out. In other news: a drop-dead date for finding out whether we’ll ever see Watchmen?
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Other Alex Irvines
A fascinating array of namesakes, gathered during a heroic bout of procrastination: The Fighting ParsonThe LairdsThe BotanistThe Lord ChancellorThe DesignerThe PhotographerThe Other PhotographerThe Ceramic ArtistThe OphthalmologistThe WrestlerThe Bulb Grower
Crooked House Fictions 