"Getting the reps in, in the form of bad drafts, sunken soufflés, buggy code, or whatever tossable widget you produce is an unskippable track that you must play. Probably a couple of full albums, honestly.”

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Tried to write something interesting about AI.

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Now here is a just-announced pairing I would not have gotten if you had given me a thousand guesses.

Oh, the dizzying and mystical blend of erudition, eroticism, and good-old fashioned play of Tom Robbins. Vegetable homages, absurdist near-Zen aphorisms, and tequila ribaldries: with him, you could be more playful & holy than you thought possible. Smooth sailing into the great whatever, TR.

This is what happens I guess when I watch TV and have feelings about it.

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Been awhile since I read a book where it genuinely made me feel like I understood something new, but which I had long felt, like LIFE IN THREE DIMENSIONS. And it is super-bookish to boot. The interview I did with Prof. Oishi for First Edition was a real treat:

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Had a chance to write briefly about NORTH WOODS by Daniel Mason in Today in Books today: todayinbooks.substack.com/p/new-federa...

On First Edition: What Were the "It" Books of the Year:
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New episode of FIRST EDITION: a conversation with
@courtneythorsson.bsky.social
about her new book, THE SISTERHOOD: HOW A GENERATION OF BLACK WOMEN WRITERS CHANGED AMERICAN CULTURE: bookriot.com/listen/the-s...

New episode of First Edition: THE MAKING OF THE MODERN PUBLISHING WORLD with @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social, author of BIG FICTION: link.chtbl.com/5j8ATkoC

For FIRST EDITION, got a behind the scenes look at how the publishing phenomenon of the year was made, with the editorial director and the VP of Operations at RED TOWER. Really fascinating stuff:

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