Jul
17
What is Nature? An Introduction
It’s been three months since my last newsletter.
This is a lapse that speaks to a myriad of happenings,
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Apr
17
The Music of the Work
“The erotics of composition are essential to the process, some prereflective
excitation and orientation, some sense that your own little
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Feb
04
Making it Last
“I would like to see writing as an expansive field. Unfortunately, I only tend
to see it that way in
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Dec
02
On Wish-Granting Shops and a Winter Course
“You can take as much time as you like to create your own world.” —Xxxholic
manga, by CLAMP
During my
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Nov
22
A Matter of Longing, a Zine, and a New Course!
“At this point, we have all of the information we need to create a change; it
isn’t a matter
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Sep
30
The Outside Edge
“I kept pushing at my own limitations and at the limits of science fiction. That
is what the practice of
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Aug
19
Longing as a Structure
“Writing has nothing to do with signifying. It has to do with surveying,
mapping, even realms that are yet to
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Jul
14
On Writing and Other Speculative Witcheries
“I tell my students all the time: writing fiction is an exercise in giving a
shit—an exercise in finding
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Jul
14
On Freewriting
“As in everything, so in writing I am almost afraid of going too far. What can
this be? Why? For
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Jul
14
On Process as Product
“I wanted, from the beginning, to write a monstrous book. Something small yet
forceful, like a talisman. I mean the
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