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Comment on Fibonacci sonnets by Michael Leddy

Michael Leddy — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:12:15 +0000

The poet Ron Silliman has a book-length poem in prose, Tjanting. It’s nineteen paragraphs using the Fibonacci sequence. So the final paragraph is 4,181 sentences. (No joke.)

Comment on Writing in the library by Fred

Fred — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:08:05 +0000

Mike – thanks for the tips about Macbreakz. I am going to try that out today,

Comment on Writing lessons learned (yet again) by Mark Zimmermann

Mark Zimmermann — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:15:08 +0000

great advice, Mike! … your PDF cheatsheet is splendid … and I note that you never use the word “very” on it (^_^) …

Comment on More on panic and discomfort by Mark Zimmermann

Mark Zimmermann — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:57:50 +0000

tnx Mike! — appreciate your expansion/explanation/discussion … and yes, you’re right: as per my citation to the movie Repo Man (“An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A Repo Man spends his life getting into tense situations.”) my final remark was tongue-in-cheek but also true in my case — I’m extremely conflict-averse, for instance, so I typically concede and run away rather than fight an intellectual argument … I also dislike public speaking and avoid it as much as I can … ^z

P.S. btw, apparently my use of a single-quote in the URL “http://zhurnaly.com/cgi-bin/wiki/Don%27t_Panic” broke the link in the first line of your post … may need to replace ‘ in the word “Don’t” with %27 , I speculate …

Comment on Panic by BrownStudies : More on panic and discomfort

BrownStudies : More on panic and discomfort — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:21:08 +0000

[...] Z at ZhurnalyWiki paid me the great honor of referring to my panic post. He ended with this thought: And of course there’s my favorite strategy: try to identify [...]

Comment on Summarizing the past year by scholarships for women

scholarships for women — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:02:56 +0000

Great information! I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now. Thanks!

Comment on Stevereads by brownstudy

brownstudy — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 02:11:18 +0000

In re-reading this, I neglected to mention that Steve never lets his critical standards slip. Whether it’s a comic book or a classic, he’s clear-eyed about what’s what, about what makes ANY work entertaining, worth reading, and worth talking about. It’s so much fun to see his critical firepower aimed at an Avengers series and then to see that he’s been surprised by some twist or turn in the plot or the way a character was written. So refreshing.

Comment on Summarizing the past year by Mark Zimmermann

Mark Zimmermann — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:57:37 +0000

excellent “lessons learned” — many thanks for sharing! — I would also recommend glancing at some thoughts from Ben Stein (yes, I know, he’s nutty but …) that I liked reading in the October 2002 BOYS LIFE (!) magazine … see http://zhurnaly.com/EinBenStein — “Develop good study habits” is nice, but my very favorite is “Don’t take anything as seriously as it seems at the time.” (^_^) – ^z

Comment on David Markson by brownstudy

brownstudy — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:53:33 +0000

I’m glad the post inspired you to take up Markson! There’s a part of me that would prefer to line up an author’s books and then read them chronologically, to see his or her development over time. In Markson’s case, to see how big the shift to “Wittgenstein’s Mistress” was from his previous work. Harry Mathews is another “writer’s writer” who’s come up on my radar over the years, but who I’ve not had time to explore.

Comment on David Markson by Michael Leddy

Michael Leddy — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:16:56 +0000

David Markson has been on my to-read list for a month or so. David Foster Wallace called Wittgenstein’s Mistress the high point (or “pretty much the high point”) of experimental American fiction. This post makes me want to read more.