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Google Books Buyout Preview
I’m still not sure how I feel about the emergence and current procedures of Google Books, but if you’d like to get a look at an extended chunk of Buyout before you plunk down your hard-earned money, here’s the preview. It’s almost two-thirds of the book, which initially annoyed me; as I looked through it,…
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What My Students Get Up to, Part the Next
In Spring 2008 my Advanced Fiction class did readings of some flash stories and put them online. Why it’s taken me a year to link to this, I don’t know, but here are those stories. I’m going to do this again this year, I think. The roster: Andrew Maxcy – Neck RomanticJesse Priest – Asymmetry…
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SiDEBAR Interview with Tomm Coker
You’ve seen his art in Daredevil Noir. Now listen to this cool podcast in which Tomm talks about all kinds of other stuff he’s done.
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io9 on Buyout, Plus Bonus Conjunctions and Harper’s
Gawker World Domination Media’s SF outpost, the always-interesting io9, takes a look at Buyout and likes what it sees: For all the drama and high-concept, Buyout is a remarkably understated and thoughtful novel. The story is rife with dark humor but Irvine reserves the sharpest of his satiric barbs for the voice of “Walt Dangerfield”,…
Crooked House Fictions 