Updated media work section
Selected reviews, mentions of She and I: A Fugue and previous work: http://www.fuguewriter.com/media
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Article on She and I: A Fugue
Michael Antman, who's led an interesting life, recently published a two-page article at popmatters: compares She and I and debut mystery novel Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, the chief TV critic at Entertainment Weekly.
Page 1 of 2: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/110781-she-and-i-a-fugue/P0/
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Radio interview - evening 6/20/09
http://fuguewriter.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/radio-interview-evening-62009/
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Radio interview: in the can
http://fuguewriter.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/radio-interview-in-the-can/
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Audio narration of She and I: A Fugue
Last night I recorded a reading of the opening for a radio show that fell through. Here it is, available for download or streaming:
http://www.fuguewriter.com/downloads/audio/
(Part 2 is a brief continuation. It has some flaws, so take it as casual.)
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New trailer & read half the book for free
YouTube book preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_91a5vkLlVM
Read half the book for free: http://sheandibook.com/readhalf/
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Publication day
Today, She and I: A Fugue was published.
The end of a seven-year odyssey, and the beginning of a far longer one, as it takes objective existence in the world and carries its subjectivity out, beyond my realm of experience or control, and, in libraries and on shelves, may yet outlive this mortal body.
That is one of the deep reasons for which I write: to shoot my arrows beyond mortality.
YouTube book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdikaVWGwAA
Book site: http://www.sheandibook.com
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Blog entry: A Reflection on Writing
An age of self-consciousness, ours, and many phenomena we take for granted arise out of this state, civilized and yet on second thought so strange, of the self being aware of itself. It does not take a Zen master to ask: is the self that is aware of itself the same self of which it is aware? Sartre suggests in the early pages of Being and Nothingness that the Cartesian cogito fails right there. The "I" is not so simply, banally single as the word "I" implies ...
More at: http://fuguewriter.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/a-reflection-on-writing
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Blog entry
Born on the outskirts of London, England, author Michael R. Brown's deep relationship to women began early in childhood. Abandoned by his British playboy father and raised in San Francisco by his single mother, Brown was exposed to the many facets of female influence by a series of striking women ...
More at: http://fuguewriter.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/about-the-author
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New blog, Twitter, publisher's site
http://fuguewriter.wordpress.com
http://www.twitter.com/fuguewriter/
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Excelsior
An energetic and positively-oriented publicity group, Phenix & Phenix Literary Publicists, have taken an interest in She and I.
Today in a brief phone consult we agreed to move ahead with them as my representation.
They've derived some interesting angles from the book, and I appreciate their expertise in 1) finding ways to penetrate the present oversaturated media static 2) building bridges between the book and the interests and concerns of book-buyers, both erudite and other.
Critical in my decision is the sense that they actually have read it, they understand in outline what I'm driving at, and they did not suggest any compromises, dilutions, or sleazings-down in order to achieve greater sales.
I'm truly pleased.
As publicity things are generated, I'll record some of them here.
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Site goes live
- Index page and bit of directory content up for testing.
- Shortly shall begin uploading, expanding/refining directory structure, and filling out sitemap.
- Any comments, corrections, questions - feel free to
email.
- This site is a process and a conversation.
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He paused for a moment, many recollections overpowering him. He seemed to have unlocked the casket of his heart, closed for so many hours, as if all the memories of the past and all the secrets of his heart and life were rushing out, glad to be free once more and grateful for the open air of sympathy. - >Henry Darger, "In the Realms of the Unreal"