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Showing posts with label Piers Anthony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Piers Anthony. Show all posts

Sunday, August 05, 2012

Closing tabs

Edward Gorey at the Columbia Rare Book Library.  (NB I must get over to see this before the exhibit closes on Friday.)

Gary Panter's Dal Tokyo!

Nomenclature and cuisine of the British meal.

Piers Anthony loomed large in the imagination of young readers in the 1980s.

Douglas Coupland's advice for young writers.

Douglas Kennedy on Maeve Binchy.

F. X. Feeney on Gore Vidal.
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I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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A few pieces

  • A snippet of the style book
  • The missing notes for chapter six
  • A Magic Circle playlist
  • My daily read (Chronicle of Higher Ed, June 2012)
  • "Guided by the Lit" (Bookforum, summer 2011)
  • "Species of Spaces" (The Believer, Aug. 2006)
  • "The Other Amazon" (Clarkesworld, Dec. 2006)

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  • Reading Style: A Life in Sentences
  • Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century (read the introduction here)
  • Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen
  • The Magic Circle
  • Invisible Things
  • The Explosionist
  • Heredity

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