Why readers' and writers' tastes are at odds so often.
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Am I doing NaNoWriMo this year? Sadly, no. Well, sort of. [There's more! See the original entry here]

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Donald Keene is translator of, among others, Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human, but during WWII he was in the employ of the U.S. Navy, translating diaries of captured Japanese soldiers and even providing an on-the-spot interpretation of the Emperor’s capitulation...
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I’ve heard a theory-I forget who originally floated it-that the length of the average mass-market genre fiction work has gone way up due to two things: the demands of the market and the invention of the word processor.
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As part of my general budget-cutting measures, I've taken a good hard look at my book-buying habits -- especially from online venues -- and decided I needed to make more use of my local library system. I was pretty surprised...
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There is little enough modern literature from South Korea in translation that any new book at all is worth paying attention to. I am not sure how much Young-Ha Kim’s I Have The Right to Destroy Myself reflects what’s going...
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Between working on The Underground Sun's 2nd draft, working (for actual money), and waiting for a whole Imelda Marcos's closet full of shoes to drop - which really can't happen fast enough, let me tell you - I have been making that much more of an attempt to read. Not newspapers, not blogs; books. The books I stuck on my shelf and told myself I ( Read more... )

Between everything else that's been going on (the catalog runs to several single-spaced pages; I won't reprint all thathere), I somehow - somehow - managed to kick off the all-new, revised version of The Underground Sun.

Call it Underground Sun 2.0. It's only a couple thousand words, and it's more notes than actual text, but it's the right ( Read more... )

First rumor dispelled: I haven't died.

I have, however, been dealing with some rather crazy personal-life stuff, the details of which I won't go into here. (Those of you who know me slightly better than casually, you know what I'm talking about; no need for me to repeat myself.) All this stuff, on top of the workload I found myself facing this ( Read more... )