Archive | December, 2008

No Pepsi, Coke

Dennis Perrin delivers a magisterial lesson on SNL, Season 4 (’78-’79). Now that’s how to talk comedy.

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My funny friend Jack Silbert

Jack and I worked together at Scholastic Classroom Magazines for a brief, magical time in the 90s. He’s a very funny writer–here are a couple of recent pieces… http://www.saltinwound.com/2008/12/thursday-in-dark-with-jorge.html http://www.saltinwound.com/2008/12/another-week-another-movie-another.html Enjoy!

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Unpacking my feelings about David Foster Wallace

The New Statesman has an interesting article about David Foster Wallace in light of his suicide. For various reasons, lately I’ve become more interested in Wallace, even though I have read only a smattering of his work. I am too impatient to enjoy his longer-form writing, as virtuosic as it clearly is. I acknowledge its [...]

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