Monthly Archives: September 2011

Are Fewer TV Characters Reading?

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

Outside of Mad Men, conversations between and among our favorite television characters about contemporary fiction are rare. (Hey, in the early 60s, Rona Jaffe’s The Best of Everything was contemporary fiction.) But the appearance of books (printed or electronic) in … Continue reading →

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Terra Nova: Nothing “Nova” About It

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

I’d seen the previews for Terra Nova on Fox months before it actually appeared.  Cleverly, their marketing people had positioned this as Jurassic Park meets Lost. But for me, the actual show did not live up to the hype. The … Continue reading →

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Drawing Breath: A Serial Novel

Posted on September 20, 2011 by

Charles Dickens did it in magazines. Stephen King did it with The Green Mile. I’m very excited to announce that now I’m doing it: publishing a novel in serial installments, which you will be able to download to your favorite … Continue reading →

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More Reasons Why I Hate Your Website

Posted on September 14, 2011 by

A while back, I wrote a post about irritating website features. I’ve just done another round of heavy Internet research, and ran into more disturbing trends–not as much in the data, but in the execution. Maybe these features sounded like … Continue reading →

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