Just finished Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. Murakami is a Japanese novelist and distance runner who weaves the two interests together in this plainspoken book on how these two activities feed each other, compliment each other, and seem to appeal to a certain personality type. Feeling much in common [...]
… containing a blood curdling story from yours truly.
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There’s a beautiful, sad story called “Stand by Me” by Wendell Berry in The Atlantic summer 2008 fiction issue. The voice is first person rural poetry, simple and pragmatic, and tells a story about brothers and sons and death and living through it. It’s the kind of story that is either beautiful or cheaply awful, [...]
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Is the way we use search engines and databases changing the way we think? Deep concentration, rich memory being replaced by culling fragments of on-demand data? I think Carr's got a good point. The real danger is the fact that data on demand instead of committed to memory is less available for [...]
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Gary Gygax, the man who co-created Dungeons and Dragons, died today. Another piece of my happily misspent preadolescence and early teen years gone… I'm going to have to dig my copy of the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide out of whatever box of books it ended up in a have a toast to Gary while I [...]
An interesting post from the Creativity and Innovation blog: Theater, Jazz and Business Success. The post examines a New York City based group called Creativity Connection. The group uses collaborative music and arts projects to help businesses train employees. For example… “Lucent’s world headquarters has brought in a five-man jazz ensemble, to demonstrate to managers [...]
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Great essay by Leigh Price in the New York Times on reading — old attitudes toward it (too much reading was once considered a danger to morals and physical health by social reformers) and new ones (the NEA in 2007 "identifies who reads as the best predictor of who exercises, plays sports, volunteers, votes and [...]
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To quote Bruce Campbell…
Sad to hear Norman Mailer has died. While it may be a bit contradictory to say so, I never managed to get around to reading everything Mailer wrote, nor did I like everything of his did read, yet he was one of my all-time favorite writers, and certainly one of the most influential (along with [...]
Great column by Stephen King in the New York Times at the end of Sept. on "What Ails The Short Story." Basically, from King's perspective, it's not that people can't or don't still write great short stories, it's that business concerns have driven short stories to the bottom shelf. The markets for them [...]
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