Archive for September, 2007
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
My Bills and Demands I Keep Too
Regarding the previous post: Of course, nowadays I would not be (quite) so inanely pleased with myself to be wearing such a pathetically crippling defect as a badge of honor. There’s nothing wrong with memories, but being an obsessive-compulsive emotional packrat is ultimately self-defeating. (Over time, you end up having a giant rear-view mirror where [...]
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Martian
Here’s an excerpt from an interview with Alice McDermott that appeared in the online literary quarterly, failbetter.com. It’s from last year, around the time her novel, “After This,” was published:
It’s been said that, to some extent, every novelist writes the same book over and over. Many reviewers have noted how much your novels share: middle-class [...]
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Sockets
My lovely and talented brother very kindly covered my song “Mary” on his first album. He also graciously invited me to sing harmony on it. I remember driving up to some house in Connecticut — it was recorded in a basement studio which was the homebase of the guy from that band where (I swear [...]
