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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

I Hate the Word “Buzz”…

Posted by on January 11 at 11:25 AM

…and the phrase “writer’s writer” is dumb too, but I was happy to see that Charles D’Ambrosio’s new book, being published by Knopf in April, is at the “top of nearly every list” of books expected to be big this spring, at least according to this. The book is called The Dead Fish Museum and it will have eight stories in it, six of them first published in The New Yorker. I’m admittedly biased — D’Ambrosio has written for The Stranger, he came up from Portland to be in our huge Chop Suey literary event last April, I’ve been in his house — but it’s true, it can’t be denied: his stories are awesome.


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I hate verbs used as nouns, as in "The Great Gatsby is a helluva read."

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