impoverished artifices

Got this link through the SmartBrief on Social Media email to which I subscribe...

ABC is using twitter to keep the narrative for Castle, their mid-season murder mystery about a writer and a detective, going during the summer tv hiatus. I haven't watched the show, as I thought the promos looked terrible like a bad pseudo-USA Network quirky crimedy [crime + comedy], but it's interesting to see corporate/mainstream appropriation of twitter for a narrative space.

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Playing around with the Google alerts for cream city review [the RSS for the blog "link:http://..." went mysteriously blank a few weeks ago...], i started poking around with variations of "cream city review" - which inevitably led to me googling myself. Who is more interesting than me, right? Partly due to my name and partly due to a lack of curiosity (and content), I've largely avoided the suisearch.

However, today I found a brief review of my story, "Anaphylaxis", at the Emerging Writers Network, which is founded by Dan Wickett, who also does the really solid Dzanc Books.

So, I've been giving love to the um... backend of this site far more regularly than to the whole 'content generation' aspect. Thems the breaks, I suppose, when time is limited.

But, lucky for the interweb, that doesn't mean I've not been listening to or reading about interesting things. Plus, have a few bits of good news to share about myself, too.

I'll try to clip off the easy things here.

Language as utopia (158); "Why does realism equal verity? And whose verity is this? Why does realism equal accessibility? Might there be ways outside the standard models that could afford both reader and writer a few more options?" (158); "contracts (social, poltical)" (159); "Might the old novel, one day, like the old ways of thinking about gender and race and sexuality, simply appear silly, outdated, quaint?" (159).

Does the fact that I'm trying to properly cite the sources for my thoughts mean that Maso has failed in her appeal to me? I don't think so: I am considering what she has written/said.