Lee Konstantinou
Well, for instance: …if you really do have a chronic problem with typos and off-seeming sentences in early drafts of your writing. Since I turned in my hipster chapter, I’ve been going over it again and again, finding (what seem to me) terrible typos and clunker phrases. At one point, I accidentally used of the … Continue reading You’re not really suffering from OCD if…
Last night, I mailed my revised hipster chapter to my dissertation advisors and to some other people I thought might be interested in reading it. Today, I’ve been feeling intellectually lazy and hung over. I’m cleansing the mental palate by reading Charles Johnson’s 1999 novel, Dreamer, a fictionalized rendition of the last two years of … Continue reading Academic hangover
Last night, I mailed my revised hipster chapter to my dissertation advisors and to some other people I thought might be interested in reading it. Today, I’ve been feeling intellectually lazy and hung over. I’m cleansing the mental palate by reading Charles Johnson’s 1999 novel, Dreamer, a fictionalized rendition of the last two years of … Continue reading Academic hangover
I finished my hipster chapter on Saturday, at least a draft of it. Only took me a year to write. It weighs in at about 75 pages, and overall I’m pretty happy with how it came out. One more major chapter to go–another 75-80 page chapter, on the postironic figure of the believer. I believe. … Continue reading Done with hipsters, I hope forever
I finished my hipster chapter on Saturday, at least a draft of it. Only took me a year to write. It weighs in at about 75 pages, and overall I’m pretty happy with how it came out. One more major chapter to go–another 75-80 page chapter, on the postironic figure of the believer. I believe. … Continue reading Done with hipsters, I hope forever
This is the first of what I hope will become a series of Red Room posts leading up to the publication of my first novel, Pop Apocalypse, which Ecco/HarperCollins is going to publish in M read more Continue reading Introductions: Part 1
My time in Texas is coming to an end. After three weeks at the Ransom Center, I’m returning to the Bay Area to start processing all my research. I found more than I expected, not only in the center’s V.-related materials but also in the Don DeLillo collection; the reverent letters that DeLillo received from … Continue reading Ransom Center Post-Mortem
My time in Texas is coming to an end. After three weeks at the Ransom Center, I’m returning to the Bay Area to start processing all my research. I found more than I expected, not only in the center’s V.-related materials but also in the Don DeLillo collection; the reverent letters that DeLillo received from … Continue reading Ransom Center Post-Mortem
There is much to say. I’m blogging from the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin. Last week, I read through all their Pynchon holdings: the typescript of V., 8 Pynchon letters (typed on graph paper, of course!), and notes/scenes from an unpublished manuscript/musical/dystopia called Mistral Island Pynchon co-wrote with J. Kirkpatrick Sale. A random conversation … Continue reading Dear Mr. DeLillo (Don):
There is much to say. I’m blogging from the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin. Last week, I read through all their Pynchon holdings: the typescript of V., 8 Pynchon letters (typed on graph paper, of course!), and notes/scenes from an unpublished manuscript/musical/dystopia called Mistral Island Pynchon co-wrote with J. Kirkpatrick Sale. A random conversation … Continue reading Dear Mr. DeLillo (Don):