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Notable Persons of Ypsilanti: My Brightest Diamond
In my ongoing effort to point out to the world all the ways that Ypsilanti is cool, I give you this recent video from My Brightest Diamond, whose Shara Worden is a YHS grad. http://player.ooyala.com/player.js?deepLinkEmbedCode=I2bWswMjqfIJ2gySKdfO1VJx64E3jZ1x%2C1yZWIwMjoY2mowI9KU5KINDznBCxB3Pl&embedCode=I2bWswMjqfIJ2gySKdfO1VJx64E3jZ1x If the video isn’t embedded here due to some weirdness with Pitchfork’s code, you can click on either of the…
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Moe Berg Is 109, and Still Can’t Hit
Or would have been, anyway, if he hadn’t died 39 years ago. On the occasion of what would have been his 109th birthday, I talked with Ron Kaplan of the New Jersey Jewish News about Berg and my short story “Agent Provocateur,” in which Berg plays a more decisive role than he usually played on…
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A Not-Serious Proposition on Charlie Sheen
Inspired by Walter Kirn. Charlie Sheen is the most interesting crazy guy pretending to be crazy in a way other than the way in which he’s actually crazy since Hamlet. And, since Joyce informed us that modernity remade Everyman in Hamlet’s image, Charlie Sheen is Everyman. Which in turn means that we’re all doomed, without…
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Influences Bubble Up: The Silver Chair and Karga Kul
So last year when I was writing The Seal of Karga Kul, I came up with this swell scene involving a collapsed bridge — Iban Ja’s Bridge — magically held together, spanning a gorge thousands of feet deep and ending in a highland road that cut through a forest and quickly up into broken territory…
Crooked House Fictions 