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Bryan speaking on digital storytelling in Burlington
I'll be speaking on a panel about digital storytelling next month. It's Saturday, 9/24, at the Burlington Book Festival. Stop by!
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Storytelling-the ability to describe a world beyond the present moment-may be the defining feature and crowning achievement of our species. Nearly everyone is a storyteller, but those who tell stories with great
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"If you are looking for a pandemic apocalypse story with an asian immigrant/asian american back story and a millennial aesthetic, this might be for you. Recommend to readers who enjoyed Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel."
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"The voice of the narrator never resonated. I dropped the book after she shotgunned a little girl six or seven times. But there's no mistaking that the author can write, and the two (and-one-half) stars are for a well-imagined, possibly plausible horr"
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"This was a clever and interesting apocalypse story and ever so appropriate for the current COVID epoque. It won the lucrative Kirkus Prize and I can see why. The idea of an ecological and biological catastrophe wiping out New York and sending the pro"
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This novel follows two women over their lives, focusing on their relationships with nature during the era of climate change. It starts in the COVID years and reaches 2070. We learn of a changed world, focused on Britain: new political coalitions, mass ...more |
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Over the past month I've been rereading the Odyssey, in preparation for seeing the new movie. My classic Greek is too slow now, alas, so I read a translation I haven't read before, by Samuel Butler. A few notes from this go-around, not in any order, a ...more |
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“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
“Then he explained in a whisper that the plan was composed entirely of awesome. It was made and designed by the House of Awesome, from materials found in the deep awesome mines of Awesometania and it would be recorded in the Annals of Awesome - and nowhere else, because any other book would catch fire and explode from the awesome - and by its awesomeness it would be known from now until the crack of doom.”
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“Kershaw had long ago realised, apparently, that dealing with Brits was tricky. You had to listen to what a Brit was saying -- which was invariably that he thought XYZ was a terrific idea and he hoped it went very well for you -- while at the same time paying heed to the greasy, nauseous suspicion you had that, although every word and phrase indicated approval, somehow the sum of the whole was that you'd have to be a mental pygmy to come up with this plan and a complete fucking idiot to pursue it.”
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“The boy reported - after the Sergeant had slept for a few hours, which was not nearly enough - that YouTube had actually gone down for ten minutes under the weight of traffic. The story was truly global, truly immense: not Obama, not Justin Bieber, not Psy and not Bin Laden had ever touched this, he said. Not Khaled Saeed and not Mohamed Bouazizi, either. If Pippa Middleton and Megan Fox had announced their intention to marry during a live theatrical production of 50 Shades of Grey starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and then taken off their clothes to reveal their bodies tattooed with the text of the eighth Harry Potter novel, they might have approached this level of frenzy. But probably not, the boy said, because not everyone liked Benedict Cumberbatch.”
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E.T.A. Hoffman, H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson and (arguably) Clive Barker all moved horror fiction forward in their time. Who's doing so today? I t ...more
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Central Community Library Science Fiction Readers Discussion Book Group. Meets on the third Saturday of every month from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Cen ...more
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