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jmd
Lapsed literary fictionist and pop-punk/indie-rock guitarist, current editor, dad, movie overenthusiast, and sporadically passable chess player.
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All the Writing
All the books or other writings that I've rec'd or re-rec'd here for one reason or another, in reverse chronological order.
Sci-fi book series about a human/robot construct that hac... more
Cary Elwes’s memoir about the making of The Princess Brid... more
Speaking of Randall Munroe, besides xkcd, his books What ... more
Also speaking of Simon Singh: It turns out that The Simps... more
A one-page bit of science fiction published in Nature. Th... more
I love a great big slow old-fashioned book where I occasi... more
I found out about these because Randall Munroe has refere... more
Includes stories from his first collection that I think w... more
This got some deserved attention because of the 2025 movi... more
I pulled this off my shelf recently to give to my older s... more
Another book I pulled off my shelf recently to give to my... more
The fact that this came out the same year as The Code Boo... more
This won a Pulitzer for good reason
Self-Help is also terrific but this one is even better IMHO
Perfect little diamonds of writing (also George Saunders’... more
Hilarious and with a singular voice. Thomas Pynchon emerg... more
One tabloid headline = one story (“Jealous Husband Return... more
From Hogfather (1996), in a scene featuring Hex, a gigant... more
I started going through these last year, and they’re near... more
My other favorite Discworld book so far.
(For anyone new... more
Semi-autobiographical Vietnam War stories, absolute classic
I only recently dove into Pratchett’s Discworld oeuvre, a... more
I feel like 100 Years of Solitude gets more attention (an... more
Often more like surreal little poems than “stories” per s... more
Now I'm thinking about Donald Barthelme again (and am str... more
@Lyla Trilling's rec of "Sticks" by George Saunders broug... more
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