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By: March Madness for nerds « Snarkmarket

March Madness for nerds « Snarkmarket — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:27:53 +0000

[…] Snarkmarket favorite Molly Young is in the first round, reading Snarkmarket favorite The Anthologist and some other book. Snarkmarket hopes with one heart that she chooses The […]

By: Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:35:30 +0000

Oh bah. That reviewer must not have finished the book.

And I was thinking more of the narrator’s erudition, playful mix of high & low, ease w/ explanation & discursive wit.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:29:04 +0000

P.S.: It’s called “anastrophe,” or sometimes just “poetic inversion.”

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:22:16 +0000

Come back from San Francisco / It can't be all that pretty / When all of New York City / Misses you --Magnetic Fields Also, the Elsevier review on Amazon describes the narrator of Baker's book as "a study in failure, at a very dark time in his life," stuck with credit card debt and writer's block -- so yes, it does sound Simply. Too. Much. Like. Me. If Apple's cribbing from my public life, then Baker's all up on my private one. But alas, here is where I am by all accounts the least original.