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There Once Was a Man from Wiscasset…
I call your attention to the Maine Limerick Project, ably overseen by Hank Garfield. Filth and humor equally encouraged. And your List of the Day is from the Telegraph: The 50 Greatest Villains in Literature.
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Sunday Morning Coming Down
After a 1-0 thriller at Yankee Stadium yesterday, and then a tour of Astoria last night, it’s a calm and lovely day ahead, with only the specter of the demise of book publishing to instill a sense of dread. But even if book publishing is on its last legs, at least there’s still George Saunders…
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I Mean, Really
How many games have the Tigers’ relievers blown this year? Especially after the 8th? I repeat: this has got to be one of the most disappointing teams, based on preseason expectations, in the history of modern sport. It must be because I went to a spring training game this year.
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Star Wars!
Lucasfilm has announced an extension of their deal with Del Rey until 2013, and yours truly is going to be writing a novel set just before the Knights of the Old Republic storyline. Since I am one of those guys who saw the movie (you know, The Movie; you know the one I mean) a…
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Roundup of New and Forthcoming Stuff
Any second now: “Black Lagoon,” in Crimewave 10, and “Shad’s Mess,” in Postscripts 15Sometime around the end of this year: Mystery Hill, from PS Publishing, and “The Truth About Ninjas,” in Barrelhouse #7January: Daredevil Noir #1, from MarvelFeburary: John Winchester’s Journal, from HarperCollinsMarch: Buyout, from Del Rey Whew.
Crooked House Fictions 