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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao“And listening to Tuahir’s dreams, with the noises of war in the background, he begins to think: they should invent a gentle, more affable gunpowder, capable of exploding men without killing them. An inverse powder, which would generate more life. And out of one exploded man, the infinity of men within him would be born.”
–Mia Couto, Sleepwalking Land
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MassLive.com (website of the Springfield Republican newspaper) has posted recordings from the Artifacts reading…including my own. I am somewhat wierded out by the fact that I didn’t have to do anything to cause this to occur. Then again, I can’t actually get the recording to work. Plugin missing or some such nonsense. But here’s the article if anybody wants to make the effort:
http://blog.masslive.com/soundcheck/2007/05/winterpills_small_beer_press_j.html
I particularly recommend the Paul Park thing: a whacked-out alt-historical premise with satirical wit and beautiful description.
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I realize that most likely, if you read this blog, you don’t live near me, and vice-versa. But just in case:
Tomorrow night, Thursday, May 17th at 7 PM, I will be participating in a series of fiction readings at Artifacts, a new gallery at 28 North Maple Street in Florence, MA. Other (much better) participants include Jedediah Berry, Elizabeth Hand, Paul Park and John Crowley (see Gavin Grant’s complete announcement about it from the Small Beer blog).
I’ll be reading a teaser excerpt from my Interfictions story, “The Utter Proximity of God”. Which I will spend tonight practicing profusely, so as not to screw it up.
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Twenty degrees of solitude
Twenty degrees in all
All the dancing kings & wives
assembled in the hall
Lost is the long & lonely time
Fairy Sybil flying
All along the all along
the Mountains of the Moon
–Robert Hunter
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