for John Wideman
GETS DARK, CREST UNPLUGS HIS CHAIR and heads outside. Been charging all day, both him and Brother Sony. Got to, you know? It’s Wednesday, and everyone comes around for Voyager. Captain Janeway and shit. Got that voice like she always got a cold.
Background
SOFTWAR is the battlefield of the future, the military capability to remotely engage the enemy without risking soldiers’ lives. In SOFTWAR, along with smart tanks and aircraft and ordnance, virtual infantry outfitted with gloves and headsets and body monitors control their robot drones thousands of miles away. The drones may be destroyed, yet, like a crazy video game, the soldiers never die. Continue reading
November 8, 2007 – Last Night at the Lobster Tour, Barnes & Noble/Chelsea, New York City
Snow Angels
Last Night at the Lobster
A list of recommended novels to read, in no particular order.
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude–Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. A Fan’s Notes–Frederick Exley
3. Invisible Man–Ralph Ellison
4. Invisible Cities–Italo Calvino
5. The Folded Leaf–William Maxwell
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“MAD. SQ. READS”
The National Book Awards presents a tribute to the late New Yorker fiction editor William Maxwell, with Benjamin Cheever, Edward Hirsch, Daniel Menaker, Stewart O’Nan, and Christopher Carduff. (Madison Square Park, Fifth Ave. at 24th St. For more information, call 212-538-6667. July 31 at 6:30.)
The Works of Stewart O'Nan 