The Algorithm
Guess I’ve been buying too many p-books, not enough e-. My device is now trying to get me to buy my own books, and stuff I’m in.
All over the place linkage
Which—man. I should have worded that differently. Feel like Pauly Shore, now. Anyway: Cool lists and reviews for: Night of the Mannequins Memorial Ride The Only Good Indians Mapping the Interior The Only Good Indians again More Memorial Ride Not for Nothing And, a video review that doesn’t embed nicely in bullet-point lists: And of
Mark Twain House ceremony
Couldn’t have been a better time. Such an honor (see the award there on the table?). And, wow, to share a stage, even just for one conversation, with David Baldacci. Guy’s smart, a solid writer, and’s just a good dude: Some more, late-showing-up pics:
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Chainsaw avalanche, part the eleventh
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Goodreads Nominee!
My Heart is a Chainsaw, swimming upstream. Which I guess is mixing metaphors. “Hitting it out of the park,” then? No, no. Um. “Firing on all cylinders?” “Making waves?” “Bringing home the bacon?” I would say “Leveling the competition,” as a way to, you know, be pretend-clearcutting a stand of timber, except . . .