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Category: selling out

  • The Ironic Pleasure of a Farting Baboon

    I recently wrote a novel consisting of nothing but the word “fart” 100 000 times, then tried to sell it on Amazon. It was an experiment designed to provoke all points of view in today’s book publishing industry, and it worked. I summarize the rest of the story of Baboon Fart Story over on Forest…

  • Book Review: The Knife of Never Letting Go, by Patrick Ness

    There are a whole lot of ideas flying around in The Knife of Never Letting Go. The central premise is that men can hear each other’s thoughts, constantly giving off what they call “Noise.” That’d be enough to keep things interesting, but then other ideas are layered on top of it: it takes place on…

  • The Western Fair: An Escape From Reality

    As I mentioned in my previous post about dying on The Zipper, it was about a year ago when I became one of Western Fair’s “real serious bloggers.” The Fair opens today, and in honour of that, here is last year’s post about the Fair closing. Get out and enjoy it while you can! Maybe…