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Book: A Futurist's Manifesto Launches
Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto, a collection of essays about the state of publishing edited by Hugh McGuire and Brian O’Leary, is available today from O’Reilly. I contributed an essay on Fictionaut to...
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Christopher Allen (Conversations with S. Teri O’Type) interviewed me for I Must Be Off! about being an expat, the speculative elements of Kino, white slavery, cyanide, and my time at Mississippi...
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Reading and Screening at the Murnau Foundation
As a part of the F.W. Murnau Foundation’s new series “Film trifft Buch” (Movie Meets Book), I will read from Kino, followed by a conversation with me and Andrea Wink and a screening of Helmut...
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The Novelist's iPad
Jürgen shared his ten favorite iPad apps for writers in the Huffington Post, including Evernote, GoodReader, and StoryCubes. To save you untold hours of procrastination, here’s my current setup of ten...
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Third World Problems: On Breaking My Kindle in Africa
I’ve been in Dakar for a month now, and when I happened to break my eReader, it was finally time to write about it. You can read my essay “Third World Problems” on Medium. Discussed: mosquito nets,...
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Photography for Thomson Reuters
My photo of Emilie Faye accompanies an article by Kathryn Werntz on the Thomson Reuters Foundation website. Faye is one of the women involved in the “Live with Water” project in Pikine, a suburb of...
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The Long Tail
Longevity is not exactly a feature of the Internet, so it’s especially nice when long-ago work suddenly resurfaces in unexpected places. This week brought not just one but two references to pieces I...
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Study Creative Writing With Me at the British Council, Dakar
This fall, I’ll be teaching an introductory creative writing class at the British Council in Dakar, Senegal: The workshop consists of an 8-week class for English speakers (advanced and fluent) and...
View ArticleThe Abracadabra Food Truck
I’m part of a team that is hoping to launch Senegal’s first vegetarian food truck. (You read that right.) Please take a minute to watch our video and check out our website and StartNext fundraiser —...
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Kino-Zeit Relaunches
In December, I joined the team at Kino-Zeit, Germany’s oldest and largest art house film magazine, as editor and social media manager. This week, we relaunched with a brand-new design and all new...
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