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I wrote a couple of books once upon a time. Now I mostly read them. Likes modernist/experimental fiction, SFF, spy novels, mysteries. I even read a western once.

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Humans Will Pack Bond With Anything, or; Some Notes on Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

What the Hell is a Buzz Rickson, Anyway?

Leave it to William Gibson to make me care about a jacket. I had no idea what a Buzz Rickson was before reading Pattern Recognition and it’s status throughout that novel as a kind of ancillary character moved me in a way I did not expect, considering that the emotional valence of the bulk of the story is set by it being a post-9/11 novel, and by the main cha

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