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Sample Comic-Con Travel Itinerary
All Times Local 7/23, 2pm: Say bye to wife and kids at Portland, Maine, airport.7/23, 3:30pm: Learn that flight from Portland will miss connection in Philadelphia. Ask about options. Discover that the only way to get to San Diego is to drive to Boston and take flight connecting through Las Vegas. Receive assurances from US…
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A New Web Site
Is in the works. It is alexanderirvine.net Currently there is a placeholder there, but great things are in the works. Update links etc. accordingly, and thanks to t. for the design.
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Buyout
My next novel, Buyout, the last sentences of which I am drafting more or less now, is already listed on Amazon even though it doesn’t come out until March. Preorder it now, and then when you’ve forgotten all about it, the book will show up and pleasantly surprise you. The book is a near-future noir…
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If You Happen to Be in Bangor on Friday…
…make sure you check out River City Cinema’s Perils of Peroxide festival. First up, tomorrow night, is The Scarlet Empress. Oh, Marlene.
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RIP Tom Disch and Tiger Stadium
Of all the obituaries coming out in the wake of Tom Disch’s suicide, the New York Times version seems the most interesting, with a laudatory and evenhanded assessment of Disch’s achievements in all of the various genres he tackled. It’s not often you see an obit with quotes from David Pringle and Dana Gioia. When…
Crooked House Fictions 