During the semester I read approximately 250 pages a week, to as much as 600, if it’s thesis season–and that doesn’t even include my own writing or my email. But I also don’t notice it–I just do it, like breathing or drinking coffee or noticing where I’m walking. I did take an old-fashioned speed-reading course [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘comics’
October 13, 2009
Character Flaw
Yesterday I looked in on a Twitter chat about character flaws that seemed to circle around these statements: “flaws! Yes! Characters have them! What about addiction?” and the whole thing looked just a bit too much like the reason people make fun of Twitter. Though there were standouts, like Eugenia Kim. I was observing because [...]
July 31, 2009
All Over the World, This Is How People Tell Stories
Tomorrow, I’m going to wake up and go buy a copy of The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy. I’ve gone too long. * * * At the gym, where I watch TV news, I could only find news on how a famous black man was arrested in his home or news of how a famous black [...]
July 7, 2009
Secret Identities: Asian American Comicon
July 11th, the Asian American Writers Workshop will be hosting a day of events and speakers on Asian American comics. This is going to be a major event, groundbreaking and This is at the new Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street in Lower Manhattan, from 10AM to 5PM. This is a must for [...]
April 12, 2009
This Is Not The Superhero Film You Were Looking For
In retrospect, the sturm und drang over whether the Watchmen was any good or not (as a film based on the graphic novel) made us lose sight of what it actually was—a story that’s at least meant to satirize the spectacle that is the costumed hero and the superhuman, using superheroes to comment on the [...]
February 22, 2009
AWP 2009
1. In the aftermath of this AWP conference, I hear about people who saw me from afar or through a window or, like I saw Nina McConigley, through a taxi window, as she stood on the corner of Wabash and looked out over my head. I pounded at the glass futilely, while my friend in [...]
October 6, 2008
My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down
Most of the time, I walk around feeling like someone replaced most of what I love about this country with a fake-looking creepy doll replica of it. A doll that’s trying to act casual, like nothing bad has happened. Even though we both know otherwise. These dolls are not like that, though. These are some [...]
