February 2011
25 posts
Are there no editors? For anything?
This book is pissing me off.
I’m reading Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem, and the first part ends. The next section is a transition to the present (which is 1999, but that’s when the book was written) via CD liner notes to fill in the reader on the back story of a main character.
I get the conceit as liner notes as transition, and I totally love the idea. But 12 pages. TWELVE...
January 2011
7 posts
I spend so much time getting rid of these! →
laphamsquarterly:
Oh the number of people who have told me this is proper typing technique… I would really like to make a chant à la Animal Farm, “One space good! Two spaces bad!”
motherjones:
“In the middle of the last century, a now-outmoded technology—the manual typewriter—invaded the American workplace….
I have perfected the art, or grep, removing online and  ...
