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This article by Jim Behrle in The Awl, “How To Write The Great American Novel,” is basically the funniest thing that I’ve read in at least a year.  “Why should I care about your story? You have a bad job and want to be doing something different but feel paralyzed because of something and so you gchat with your friends all day the end. Collins and Martin keep you reading deep into the night because at the end of a chapter Katniss’ head suddenly falls off. And you’re like, her head just fell off??? I have to keep reading. Like holy crap. And so you stay up all night furiously turning pages. What happens at the end of your chapters? Someone doesn’t reply to your email or something. Or, like, 9/11 happens. I’m so fucking riveted.” I highly recommend you read it immediately. That’s why I hyperlinked to it three times in a single post. No four. 

This article by Jim Behrle in The Awl, “How To Write The Great American Novel,” is basically the funniest thing that I’ve read in at least a year. 

“Why should I care about your story? You have a bad job and want to be doing something different but feel paralyzed because of something and so you gchat with your friends all day the end. Collins and Martin keep you reading deep into the night because at the end of a chapter Katniss’ head suddenly falls off. And you’re like, her head just fell off??? I have to keep reading. Like holy crap. And so you stay up all night furiously turning pages. What happens at the end of your chapters? Someone doesn’t reply to your email or something. Or, like, 9/11 happens. I’m so fucking riveted.”

I highly recommend you read it immediately. That’s why I hyperlinked to it three times in a single post. No four. 

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The fifth book in the “Game of Throne” series by George R.R. Martin, Dances With Dragons, was released yesterday, and I’m still waiting for my goddamn pre-ordered copy from Amazon.com. It distresses me not to be the first of all of my friends to begin reading it, although I am comforted by two things: 1. I’m still the best. 2. Matt Dreyer™, who was tempted to storm Barnes & Noble with a Pitchfork eight hours before midnight on Monday to get the book early, was offered a free copy by a friend in the publishing industry. Rather than letting him come pick it up from her office, however, she MAILED it to him, which means that he’ll never get it, and I win. Has anyone else started it yet? I am dying!

The fifth book in the “Game of Throne” series by George R.R. Martin, Dances With Dragons, was released yesterday, and I’m still waiting for my goddamn pre-ordered copy from Amazon.com. It distresses me not to be the first of all of my friends to begin reading it, although I am comforted by two things:

1. I’m still the best.

2. Matt Dreyer™, who was tempted to storm Barnes & Noble with a Pitchfork eight hours before midnight on Monday to get the book early, was offered a free copy by a friend in the publishing industry. Rather than letting him come pick it up from her office, however, she MAILED it to him, which means that he’ll never get it, and I win.

Has anyone else started it yet? I am dying!

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A Kanye West reference in the title of a New York Times interview with George R.R. Martin? I die. Read the article here. “In literary culture, you see writers using science-fiction and fantasy tropes. In many cases, they’ll say, “I’m not writing science fiction or fantasy – it may look similar, but it’s not.” There’s still that little thing: “I don’t want to be put in a cave with the geeks.”—George R.R. Martin (The still above…is a rendering of King’s Landing from the HBO series. Did you just lose control of your extremities, or what?)

A Kanye West reference in the title of a New York Times interview with George R.R. Martin? I die. Read the article here.

“In literary culture, you see writers using science-fiction and fantasy tropes. In many cases, they’ll say, “I’m not writing science fiction or fantasy – it may look similar, but it’s not.” There’s still that little thing: “I don’t want to be put in a cave with the geeks.”—George R.R. Martin

(The still above…is a rendering of King’s Landing from the HBO series. Did you just lose control of your extremities, or what?)

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