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Monthly Archives: February 2012
1981 Châteauneuf de Pape
Bought this bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape a heck of a long time ago and am wondering if anyone out there has any notion of whether a) it has any value, b) if it’s even drinkable, and c) what it might go well with if I do decide to drink it.
If you know anything about any of this, comment, please.
1981 Châteauneuf de Pape
1981 Châteauneuf du Pape, the label
1981 Chateauneuf du Pape, the neck
A Very Special One-Time Offer
In honor of the really fun reading at KGB Bar, I’ve got a special promotion going today and tomorrow on Amazon. You can get Second Son for free. Give it a shot. If you don’t have a kindle, you can still read it with the Kindle app for your mac, pc, iPhone, android device or iPad.
And while you’re there, why not go on and pick up a copy of The Final Appearance of America’s Favorite Girl Next Door.
Also, check out Carter Sickels‘s work. He read with me last night. Really good, finely observed stuff. Can’t wait to read the whole novel.
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Fiction and Loneliness
I’ve read it more than once that for David Foster Wallace, whose work I admire tremendously, and for Jonathan Franzen, whose work I also admire tremendously, fiction was/is (Franzen said in an elegy to Wallace) “‘A way out of loneliness’ was the formulation we agreed to agree on.” Since the first time I heard that idea, I’ve spent a lot of time wondering about it, specifically if it were true for me. If I write and read fiction as a way out of loneliness.
I don’t think so. Continue reading