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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Email accident

If you emailed me recently (say in the last week or so), please resend your message(s). (bellascribe at gmail dot com) I did something too stupid to say and will not have seen it; it’s gone. Thanks.

Tall Tale From Ditmarsh

Behind on work, behind on everything (or is this exactly where I am “supposed” to be), I stop the unpacking and shelving of books to explore this one, Jack Zipes‘ translation, The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. (Interview with Zipes at Biting Dog Press.) Here is one odd story:
A Tall Tale From Ditmarsh
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Harris creates Universe, the artwork

A new Jonathan Harris interactive artwork that could elicit or provide writing ideas or starts. (Why does that name sound so familiar, you may be wondering. See entries on this blog, here and here, for starters.) Looking foward to playing around with it. Let me know what you come up with (email bellascribe at gmail), [...]

Haruki Murakami metaphors

A general thank you to those who have sent such nice and interesting email; I’m always surprised anew to hear from people who have found and read something here that moved them to writing. If it wasn’t a late Friday afternoon after too much work and not enough pleasure, I’d give that a good think [...]

Mary Gaitskill in Cincinnati

I heard Mary Gaitskill (Wikipedia entry) talk about her work and writing, and read from Nabakov’s Pale Fire, twice this week at her two appearances here, first at the University of Cincinnati and the following night at the Mercantile Library. Her work has always mattered to me a great deal so I was really pleased [...]