Notes of a Defeatist

Every summer my friends and I venture down to Chicago for the Wizard World Comic Con to gorge ourselves on all the pop culture we can find. Without fail every year a good amount of time gets spent checking out the DIY projects of many of the creators in Artist Alley.

The talent pool is [...]

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George Saunders appeared on Letterman last week to promote the release of his new book of essays—The Braindead Megaphone.

Since we lost Kurt Vonnegut this last year it’s a good thing we have George Saunders still knocking around.



tags technorati : George Saunders, humor, David Letterman, The_Braindead_Megaphone, books

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Remeber Donkey Kong?

Yeah, the original one, with the little guy jumping over the barrels to get get the girl from that monkey.
Turns out somebody actually still plays it.

Oh, and Ray Bradbury wanted to let you know that you’re stupid—Fahrenheit 451 wasn’t about censorship, but T.V. taking over our lives.

Thanks Ray, that makes your book [...]

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From EW:

By Gregory Kirschling

When author Kurt Vonnegut died last week at the age of 84, the first person EW rang was Vonnegut’s longtime friend John Irving, who was Vonnegut’s student at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the mid-’60s. Irving — the writer of The World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany, [...]

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Normally, I might’ve just linked to this, but it’s worth having on hand to be re-read now and then.

From the Onion A.V. Club:

15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Ever Will

1. “I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, [...]

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Jonathan Lethem stopped by Harry W. Schwartz books in Milwaukee, a couple of weeks ago to read from his new novel, You Don’t Love Me Yet.

Here’s some audio of the event.



tags technorati : Jonathan Lethem, books, reading, Milwaukee, You_Don’t_Love_Me_Yet, audio

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Kurt Vonnegut died today and frankly, I don’t know what to do about that.

My first experience with Vonnegut’s work was like most people—Slaughter House Five, a book that I wasn’t sure what it was about, but was sure that the words Slaughter House were a positive indication. Turns out my hunch was right. The book [...]

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Remeber in school often once a year they’d have Career Day?

People’s relatives might come in and discuss what a lawyer does. What it’s like to be a firefighter or nurse.

Memory doesn’t serve me, if any journalists or writers ever spoke. There’s only one adult that I knew that wrote fiction and worked at a newspaper, [...]

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In this month’s issue of Penthouse, friend of the site Colby Buzzell proves that there words between the pictures are worth your attention.  Check out the scans below as Buzzell weighs in on the current situation in Iraq.

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tags technorati : Colby Buzzell, politics, War-in-Iraq, The-Withdrawl-Method, Penthouse, military, war

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October 5th,2006, the first officially sanctioned boxing match between two published authors was thrown down. Friend of this site, Craig Davidson (author of The Fighter, Rust and Bone) challenged any writer to meet him in the ring. He was met by Michael Knox, author of Play out the Match. Produced by Ian Daffern. Edited by [...]

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