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words i could never read again…

…and be totally fine. when you work in the book biz you come across a lot of bad writing. and the problem with bad writers is they don’t read that much. otherwise they’d know that they all use these words to death. (bloggers, i’m lookin’ at you.):
decidedly (adv.)
cool (n.) as in “downtown cool”
ultra- (prefix)
singluar (adj., [...]

Her Body, My Ego

WHEN WE CAME ACROSS Cathy’s application, we saw that she was by far the most coherent and intelligent of the group. She wrote that she was happily married with three children. Her answers were not handwritten in the tiny allotted spaces; she had downloaded the original questionnaire and typed her responses at thoughtful length. Her [...]

33 1/3 + 1

I’m a huge fan of the 33 1/3 book series. Right now I’m reading Hayden Childs’ take on the Richard and Linda Thompson classic Shoot Out the Lights.

This is an important album for me. First of all, Z introduced me to it. I spent a lot of time in 4D singing “Walking on a Wire” [...]

A Great Injustice

I keep coming back to William Vollmann. Right now I’m reading Riding Toward Everywhere. I bought the book, despite tepid reviews, when I caught Vollmann doing a reading for it this past February. (The trek through a blizzard was totally worth it when he signed and illustrated two books for me, then carried the conversation [...]