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Prescience Among the Postmoderns
David Harvey, writing in 1989: The biggest physical export from New York City is now waste paper. The city’s economy in fact rests on the production of fictitious capital to lend to the real estate agents who cut deals for the highly paid professionals who manufacture fictitious capital. (The Condition of Postmodernity, 331-32) Who says…
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Interview on Amazon
I talked with Jeff VanderMeer, who is a swell writer and also an indefatigable blogger etc., a few days ago for Amazon’s Omnivoracious books blog, and now the results are up for all to see…
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Snack and Yack
If you happen to be in Orono tomorrow at 3pm, stop by the Foster Student Innovation Center on the UMaine campus, where I’ll be part of a roundtable discussion on the question of how to get published.
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If You Haven’t Already…
Read a banned book this week. Preferably in church. Or if that’s too confrontational for you, consult this list of Banned Books Week events to find one near you.
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A Question for John McCain
Senator: Is there anything Barack Obama *does* understand? — alexirvine.blogspot.com