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01/31/07 // Blog Post from Dover Drive // Newport Beach // California: Catologue Raisonne Jeffrey Toobin, a legal columnist over at the New Yorker, has written a piece about Google’s book scanning project and the legal challenges it faces. In a nutshell, two lawsuits are threatening the Google Book Search project, one is from a consortium of big name publishers who, curiously, are also Google’s partners in the project, and the other is from … continue reading » Topics: Books, Copyright, Writing
05/19/06 // Blog Post from Downtown Ljubljana // Ljubljana // Slovenia: Ghost From Dubrovnik we returned north toward Slovenia, stopping along the way to spend one night in the peaceful, almost backwater, Croatia fishing village of Trogir. Like Dubrovnik, Trogir was a walled city of roughly Venetian vintage, but Trogir’s wall has largely crumbled away or been removed, though I know not how or why. Still it had the gorgeous narrow cobblestone … continue reading » Topics: Archaeology, Europe, Ghosts, Memory, Round The World Trip, Writing
09/27/08 Short Blog Post: Writings by and about David Foster Wallace Ever since David Foster Wallace’s untimely death, I’ve been collecting links to his various writings with the idea that I would post them here. However, Wallace was quite prolific and collecting all the links is, quite frankly, too much work. … continue reading » Topics: Reading, Writing
09/14/08 Short Blog Post: Novelist David Foster Wallace dead at 46 David Foster Wallace was found dead in his California home on Friday night, after apparently committing suicide. From the New York Times: Michael Pietsch, who edited “Infinite Jest,” said Saturday night that the literary world had lost one of its … continue reading » Topics: Obituary, Writing
08/05/08 Short Blog Post: Luxagraf Now on Vagablogging.net I posted my first little essay at my new gig, which is blogging for Rolf Potts’ site vagablogging.net. The site goes along with his book Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel. I’ll be posting over … continue reading » Topics: Travel, Writing
10/08/05 // Blog Post from 28 Graves Ave // Northampton // Massachesetts: The New Luddites It might just be what I happen to read, but the big topic of late on this here internet seems to the Author’s Guild lawsuit against Google. For those that haven’t heard, the Author’s Guild has brought a class action lawsuit against Google to try and stop Google from indexing scanned books. I am a writer and I make about … continue reading » Topics: Copyright, Ignorance, Technology, Writing
05/30/08 Short Blog Post: Book Launch 2.0 It’s everything you dreamed of. And more. continue reading » Topics: Writing
02/24/05 // Blog Post from 28 Graves Ave // Northampton // Massachesetts: Farewell Mr. Hunter H Thompson I’m sure everyone has heard by now that Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide this past weekend. Like many I am saddened by Thompson’s decision to take his own life. I don’t for a moment pretend to understand why he did it, but after thinking about it for a few days I have decided that, despite the loss for the rest … continue reading » Topics: Death, Eulogy, Writing
10/10/04 // Blog Post from 28 Graves Ave // Northampton // Massachesetts: The Art of the Essay On the meridian of time there is no justice, only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and justice— H. Miller Paul Graham recently published an essay about the essay, which, though I generally reserve this spot for more programmatic oriented musings, bears some relevance since I do tend to write essays myself. What’s more, Paul Graham is … continue reading » Topics: Authors, Ignorance, Writing
01/07/04 // Blog Post from 28 Graves Ave // Northampton // Massachesetts: David Foster Wallace on Infinity I’ve been reading David Foster Wallace’s new book1 Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity for a few days now and I’m happy to report that it’s everything you would expect from the author of Infinite Jest. And I mean that in the best way possible. Wallace tends to provoke strong sentiments among readers. As my friend Mike put … continue reading » Topics: Books, Future, Mathematics, Writing

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