Author archive

Flaming    (2010.01.15)

Was Tara Ariano ever Canadian?    (2010.01.12)

Alleged Canadian Tara Ariano: “Your money is stupid”

‘The problem section’    (2010.01.12)

A couple of things you can leave out: “The problem section” in magazine articles; historical digressions in books

Surely you understand by now why comments are a bad idea    (2010.01.12)

“[A] searing insight into the pathetic and disastrous state of our comment-obsessed culture”

What’s your publisher done for you lately?    (2010.01.12)

According to a tendentious, borderline dishonest Jonathan Galassi, tons. And now they own your book, essentially

A digital magazine is not quite a ‘Web site’    (2010.01.12)

But it will be expressed as some form of HTML. Still, there will be problems

1 ≠ I    (2010.01.11)

It’s great that Al Gore noticed a ranging-figure 1 was hard to read. It’s hard to read because of the fake bullshit rule that acronyms have to be typeset in small caps. (Now with update you won’t bother to read)

‘Stale Roles and Tight Buns’    (2010.01.08)

“What’s almost as pointless as a bottom with nine inches uncut? A novelist with nine inches uncut”

Ben Hammersley’s useful precedent    (2010.01.07)

Ben Hammersley and I agree: Marked-up documents are rare to nonexistent in the book and magazine world