Writer David Foster Wallace found dead.
Holy shit.
Zoe: Yeah? Thought you'd get land crazy that long in port. Wash: Probably, but I've been sane a long while now, and change is good.
'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Polter-Cow - Sep 13, 2008 3:59:49 pm PDT #7359 of 28404
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hayden - Sep 13, 2008 4:20:34 pm PDT #7360 of 28404
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
That's fucking horrible.
Kate P. - Sep 13, 2008 4:22:40 pm PDT #7361 of 28404
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Oh god, that's awful.
JZ - Sep 13, 2008 4:49:58 pm PDT #7362 of 28404
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh my God, how awful. Awful for him, for whatever pushed him to that point, and how utterly devastating for his wife.
Sue - Sep 13, 2008 5:43:54 pm PDT #7363 of 28404
hip deep in pie
Oh, that's terrible.
I think he was pretty open about suffering from some pretty crippling depression, wasn't he?
erikaj - Sep 14, 2008 9:05:38 pm PDT #7364 of 28404
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, but it seemed as though things had perked up. What a shame. Even if I never understood his massive book.
sumi - Sep 15, 2008 6:05:58 am PDT #7365 of 28404
Art Crawl!!!
Barb - Sep 15, 2008 11:34:25 am PDT #7366 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
Some days, I really love the research aspect of writing. I'm reading an absolutely fascinating book called, Havana: Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis.
I love the details of the individual neighborhoods and the genesis of their creation.
(Okay, so that tag never really closes, but still, I'll quit babbling.)
Kathy A - Sep 15, 2008 11:47:07 am PDT #7367 of 28404
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
That reminds me--I have to read my copy of Havana Nocturne before going out to see my sister and BIL in November, since I'm going to give him my copy as an early Christmas gift.
(Christmas is going to be on the cheap this year--sis and Mom are getting cross-stitched Xmas pieces I've got to work on soon, BIL is getting the book, and Dad will get his bottle of B&B that he treats himself to at home on rare occasions. His current bottle is almost out, so I told him not to buy a replacement one. Brother and his family will get gift cards.)
Fay - Sep 16, 2008 1:39:52 am PDT #7368 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Not totally on-topic...but I'm just awash with affection for Wizard Rock.
Seriously. Bless. Bless on toast, with little sprinkles of bless. Got to love the fact that there are so many people writing & playing & listening to songs about fictional characters, or indeed about the phenomenon of fandom/loving a fictional world.
Meanwhile, I've been mainlining YA lit the past few days, having wolfed through The Naming and The Riddle, and now munching through The Crow. These are 3 of The Books of Pellinor, a series that's more than a trifle influenced by LotR, but in more of a Lloyd Alexander fashion than a Thud'n'Blunder way.
...did that kid that wrote Eragon ever get around to writing a third book, I wonder? Not that I actually read the first book of his 'trilogy', but, by God, the movie was bad bad bad bad BAD.