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Why The F*ck Aren't You Reading Kelly Link?
May 20th, 2015
Photo credit: Sharona Jacobs The world is full of the strange. We don’t notice this strangeness because it becomes all too commonplace for us, because we have our heads buried so deeply in our day-to-day lives. We don’t see the vampires lurking in the shadows (or hiding in plain sight, under a burning noon day sun.
Read Column →The Linguistic Turn: Explorations at the Edge of Language
May 19th, 2015
In 1936, Oxford logician A.J. Ayer gave an intriguing speech on the nature of language. He said: The philosopher, as an analyst, is not directly concerned with the physical properties of things. He is concerned only with the way in which we speak about them.
Read Column →Storyville: 10 Ways to Fool Your Readers
May 18th, 2015
So today we’re going to talk about ways to fool your readers. How can you distract them, divert their attention, present evidence that is misleading, or incorrect, lead them down a dead end alley only to spring a trap on them, pull the rug out from under their feet, and dazzle them with your clever writing? Here are ten tips—I hope they help.
Read Column →Path to Publication 3.7: What Goes Into Designing A Book Cover?
May 18th, 2015
Polis Books will release my debut novel, New Yorked, in June, with the follow-up, City of Rose, slated to follow in 2016. This is a column about taking a book over the finish line. Fact: People judge books by their covers.
Read Column →My Digitization Nightmare: 10 Ways To Fail While Digitizing Your Work
May 15th, 2015
I don't know much about life hacks. I don't know a lot about the finer points of Evernote. And I definitely don't understand the life-saving magic of tidying up. I missed that class at Hogwart's, I guess. What I do know is that I just moved. As in, moved from one house to another. As in, carried every item I own, in my arms, out one door and into another.
Read Column →Product Review: Logitech Keys-To-Go Keyboard for iPad
May 14th, 2015
all images © Logitech.com About a year ago, I reviewed the Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad Air, a sleek piece of tech that made writing on the iPad a breeze.
Read Column →Three Books About... Transformation
May 14th, 2015
The filmmaker David Cronenberg, a man you could reasonably say is obsessed with transformation, begins an essay on the subject in the Paris Review like this: I woke up one morning recently to discover that I was a seventy-year-old man.
Read Column →The Familiar Volume 1: Where the Hell is Danielewski Going With This?
May 13th, 2015
On September 15, 2010, it was announced that Mark Z. Danielewski was working on a twenty-seven volume serial novel about "a twelve-year-old girl who finds a kitten." The internet's collective head
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