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Oct.12.2011
There's no end to what the imagination finds in the world. As I've posted before, I began Heidegger's Glasses with a fictional situation that turned out to contain hard-boiled facts about World War II. But some of the book--particularly the setting--was fictional.
Now that Heidegger's...
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Oct.07.2011
When I first began to teach I was disdainful of computers. I noticed that students who used word processors often had the clunkiest passages, even though they were beautifully presented. Real writers, I thought, retyped revisions faithfully, even if it meant a simple paste. If a...
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Oct.05.2011
Please come to 582 Market Street in San Francisco to the Variety Preview Room on Sunday October 9th at 1:00 to hear me read from Heidegger's Glasses. This is one of the kick-offs for the newley-released paperback. The paperback will be on sale and I'll be signing.
I know that everyone has Kindles...
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Sep.27.2011
The paperback of Heidegger’s Glasses is about to be released and the Reader's Guide is up at my web site. When I look at it, I have a comforting and misguided sense of reassurance about my next book, because the questions make it seem as though I made...
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Sep.21.2011
I'm reading at Off the Richter Scale on Sunday, October 9th at 1:50. I'll be reading from Heidegger's Glasses which is out in paperback, but may be persuaded to read a story from my new book, Enchantment, which is out this spring. I might read The Enchanted Man or The...
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Jun.14.2011
About a year ago I spoke at an event at a college and one of the students in the audience asked me if I thought writing was compatible with having children. I know its a tough question and I can only speak for myself: My son was one of my best teachers. He helped make my writing more specific. ...
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Jun.14.2011
Once more, I wanted to pass along the info that my intrepid publisher Counterpoint has chosen HEIDEGGER’S GLASSES for the Amazon Kindle Sunshine promotion, which means that until June 17th you can buy the e-book edition on Amazon for just $1.99. You don’t need a Kindle. Books can be...
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Jun.02.2011
Heidegger's Glasses has been chosen for the Amazon Kindle Sunshine Promo
http://tinyurl.com/3p5p3nq
You can download it on your Kindle, Mac, or other electronic toy and bemoan the demise of book-as-object. You can highlight comments. You can hope that the Scribes see some sun in their hidden...
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May.24.2011
One of my earliest memories are of moments when I learned the words for things. Especially when I was three. I knew a lot of words and talked in sentences. But I was only three. So my world was a mix of words and nameless entities.
I remember walking down the street in a lush midwestern...
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Apr.08.2011
Tomorrow an adolescent heart-throb is going talk about his book on Life on the Water on KLAW. Although I only saw Jacques D'Amboise dance in two movies I thought he was the most amazing dancer and gorgeous man on earth. Sitting in my bedroom, staring out the window at whatever view there was (...
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Mar.21.2011
I think I was born awake. I never napped. I began to have insomnia at four. And even though I drown under the panoply of Proust's detailed memories, I empathize with his insomnia. And I admire Balzac, who treasured the night, wrote from five until seven and was seen only once in daylight when...
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Feb.10.2011
I'm going to the city of angels again this Sunday to read from Heidegger's Glasses at Rhapsodomancy.* As always, my challenge is: How to make a fragment from a novel alive to readers--alive enough so they feel like active participants rather than passive observers?
When I was reading from short...
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Jan.28.2011
David Gutowski (largeheartedboy on Twitter) asks writers to write about the music they listened to while writing particular books. Heidegger's Glasses took almost three years to write and it was challenging to remember that time in detail. I thought that music hadn't been a part of that novel...
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Jan.10.2011
Reading of Heidegger's Glasses. I hope there will be a lively discussion about the power of group minds, the novelistic aspect of WWII and "Heidegger" question. And--if there's time--the role of the fairy tale in modern life. There will be wine and cheese afterwards. ...
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Jan.09.2011
Last year my agent took me to a meeting about the e-book at the BEA. For every pro that an expert spoke there was a con by another expert. The difficulty of keeping things ready to print. Problems with copyright, distribution, hidden costs. The conclusion: not enough is known.
I left with so...
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About Thaisa
Enchantment is Thaisa Frank’s third collection of short fiction, (her sixth book) and includes two semi-autobiographical novellas as well as thirty-three stories. Her most recent novel, Heidegger’s Glasses, takes place in the mythical haven of an underground...
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