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Melbourne Writers Festival 2009 – A Flying Visit
Quick and dirty visit to Melberlin (actually, not dirty at all, not even slightly soiled; very, very clean and pristine visit).
Arrived Thursday night, checked into hotel at 9.30pm, ordered room service, sat in front of tv for a few hours channel surfing as my brain wound down like the clockwork monkey it is … kept thinking how I should take
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Some Brain-work …
… from my more-than-clever friend and fellow Clarion South survivor, Brendan David Carson. On why vampires are no longer scary, but clowns are terrifying. His brain is only slightly smaller than China Mieville’s.
An excerpt is below and the rest lives here http://brendandcarsonsfiction.blogspot.com/2009/08/vampires-anticlowns-or-something.html.
Vampires – the anticlowns. Or something.
Hail,
I have been having an interesting discussion with one of my best
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Leave an Idea, Take an Idea: Five Things Someone Else Should Totally Do (Guest Blogger China Mieville)
“It’s melancholy when you realise there are more things you’d like to do, or write, than you’ll have time to, in your entire life. The endless triage of decent thoughts is necessary, a bit miserable, and a strong argument for the desirability of immortality. You cling even to the ones you doubt you’ll start, as long as you can bear,
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More Bloggy Goodness
From Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days:
Last year, I interviewed China Miéville for Weird Tales’ 85th anniversary issue. Yesterday, I posted a short excerpt of the interview on Omnivoracious as part of an announcement about China blogging there. (For those of you living under rocks and on distant planets, his The City & The City was released recently.)
I’m posting the full interview
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Blogtacular
The most excellent and erudite CHINA MIÉVILLE blogs at Omnivoracious all week http://horrorfictionnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=567:china-mieville-guest-blogging-all-this-week-at-omnivoracious&catid=32:author-news&Itemid=710