lacunaeDouglas Wolk's digital simulacrumoff the grid- August 23, 2007 I'm headed away on vacation; between now and September 4, I will not be checking email (or able to get phone messages). So if you write to me and I don't write back promptly, don't think it's because I don't want to hear from you. See you all after Labor Day!...http://www.lacunae.com/archives/000563.html the long weekend later- August 20, 2007 A few more links, in lieu of my having any actual non-promotional-type experiences to blog about (other than Liz & Mike's wedding, which was magnificent but would require more time to detail than I've got here): A nice review from Peter Terzian in Newsday! Chris Mautner interviewed me over at Newsarama! New York magazine thinks Reading Comics falls about 23 of the way along the "despicable""brilliant" axis! (It's on the good side. And just barely above the...http://www.lacunae.com/archives/000562.html more linkery- August 17, 2007 Tom Nissley interviewed me over at the the Amazon Bookstore blog! Tomorrow from 4 to 7 PM I'll be at Comix Experience in San Francisco, 305 Divisadero St., along with at least three of the other Savage Critics. Come kibitz with us. And then Sunday I'll be reading--not from Reading Comics but from Live at the Apollo!--and signing at Pegasus Bookstore, 2349 Shattuck Ave. in Berkeley, at 7:30 PM, along with two other 33 13 authors, Kate Schatz and Shawn Taylor. Quick mental arithmetic suggests...http://www.lacunae.com/archives/000561.html my new gig- August 16, 2007 Up now: the first installment of my new weekly column at The New Republic's site, "The Critical Browser"--literary analysis of the political Web. (I kinda wanted to call it "The Strict Deconstructionist," but I seem to be the only person who thought that was funny.)...http://www.lacunae.com/archives/000560.html dept. of service criticism- August 14, 2007 Chris Eckert reads Countdown so I don't have to...! Schuler's Books reading went great, & quite a few people from my past put in appearances, including Ray Walsh, Dan Mishkin, Evy Wood and Randall Scott. More details when it's not quite so late at night, probably....http://www.lacunae.com/archives/000559.html the spirit of the elevator- August 12, 2007 Thank you, Monica! Thank you, Linsey! Thank you, Mairead! Thank you, everyone else who made Chicago such a pleasure! Really fun reading at Quimby's in Chicago last night. I figured I should do something place-appropriate, so I made up a Jimmy Corrigan theme song I sang to a very familiar melody: Corrigan, Corrigan Timid little round-headed man Scared of girls, bored at work Lonely heir to a line of jerks Look out! It's Jimmy Corrigan Is he sad Listen, chum-- His stepsister thinks Jimmy's scum!..http://www.lacunae.com/archives/000558.html here comes that benison again- August 10, 2007 Rod Lott at Bookgasm really likes Reading Comics. Kiel Phegley at Wizard did an interview with me. This may be the most entertaining riff I've ever seen on something I've written. Me I'm in Chicago, reading at Quimby's on Saturday night. I vaguely remember that I used to sleep, but I'm not sure any more how one does it....http://www.lacunae.com/archives/000557.html |