Archive for May, 2009
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Rattle #31, Summer 2009 Now Available
If you haven’t noticed, the summer issue of Rattle is now available. There are two posts I wanted to make about it, but I don’t have time right now — I’m driving up to San Francisco right now to read with Joel Tan tonight at Moe’s Books (see event list). So for the moment I’ll [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in rattle rubbish by Tim
Monday, May 18th, 2009
BookMark Review of AmFrac by Marjorie Maddox
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] The above review appeared last Wednesday on WPSU, NPR’s central Pennsylvania affiliate. The clip is from BookMark, a weekly book reviews show. This is just, I think, the second review of the book to reach the public, and the first time my name’s ever been mentioned on the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in american fractal,audio by Tim
Friday, May 15th, 2009
Batting Average on Balls in Play
The party last night was great — I’m not a party person, but we made it out alive, without crying in a corner or spilling beer on a rare book, so chalk it up as a win. I didn’t think to bring a camera, so there will be no pictures, unless Red Hen posts them [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in on publishing,random riff-raff by Tim
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
The Post in Which I Explain Once and For All What Makes American Fractal a Fractal
Yesterday I gave a new (for me) example of what fractals are — objects for which scale is irrelevant, because the same patterns repeat over and over again regardless of scale. Viewed from above, a photograph of a barren desert could be a mile wide or a meter, and there’s no way to tell the [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in american fractal by Tim
Monday, May 4th, 2009
Fractilic Landscapes
Yesterday afternoon I recorded an interview for KPFK’s Poet’s Cafe with Lois P. Jones, which will air in a couple months (obviously I’ll let you know when it’s scheduled). As I was sitting in the studio, babbling into the big padded mike about fractals for what seems like the hundredth time this month, I had [...]
