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Category Archives: Reading

Why I Gave You that Blank Stare, and Why You Gave Me One, Too

By Antoine | Published: July 28, 2010
When you publish a book, and people read it, and they want to say nice things to you about it (or maybe they’re avoiding saying mean things about it), they often tell you that some part of your work reminds them of some other book they’ve read. These encounters can be some of the most [...]
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Letter to a Young Writer, in the Form of a Top Ten List

By Antoine | Published: July 21, 2010
Dear 23 year-old Antoine Wilson, Here’s a list of ten things you might consider but probably won’t: 10. When you pick up the pen, put down the pipe. 9. If something you’ve written is blowing your mind, it’s probably a cliche. You just don’t know it yet. 8. Your most interesting material is all around [...]
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Yeps

By Antoine | Published: March 12, 2010
No one who thinks that he can write like Nabokov has anything intelligent to say about him. From DG Myers’ blog post Ten Rules for Criticism.
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Startled Awake by Ernie’s Bugle

By Antoine | Published: March 9, 2010
I’ve got friends who, at age 20 (or 30) could tell you right away what their favorite kids books were (and are), but for some reason I’ve never been that interested in kids’ books, at least not since I was a kid. I have trouble remembering, too, what my favorite books were. Maybe it’s a [...]
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So long, dirty oughts…

By Antoine | Published: January 4, 2010
The Interloper has been included in L Magazine’s Books of the Decade. Which is awesome.
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“New” DFW & Trek lip read gone wrong.

By Antoine | Published: December 9, 2009
This might make you cry. This will make you laugh.
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APS

By Antoine | Published: October 15, 2009
Yo, check the TOC for APS#9. Now you can see what I’ve been up to. Hanging in the aether (or on a hard drive somewhere) with TCB, Richard Powers, David Shields, my old friend Sally Keith, Derek Walcott, and others.
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Holiday Reinhorn

By Antoine | Published: September 21, 2009
My homegirl the brilliant writer Holiday Reinhorn has a new website, and it is totally worth checking out. It’s visually awesome and has tons of stuff to explore. So far my favorite is an interview with Ursula K. Leguin she wrote for career day at Chapman School, Portland, OR in 1978.
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New Books

By Antoine | Published: August 30, 2009
Two books are coming out in September and October that are going to put a serious dent in my writing schedule. Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist The new fat OED Thesaurus of the English Language. That is all.
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OMG it’s a baby blog

By Antoine | Published: August 11, 2009
Okay, not totally a baby blog. I very much enjoyed David Ulin’s LA Times piece on reading in the 21st century. Maybe you will, too. It inspired me to shut down the Facebook, Scrabble, Twitter, email, etc., and pick up the latest issue of A Public Space. I was blown away by a strange story [...]
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