Comments on: One-Man Book Club: Now where were we? http://www.hankstuever.com/blog/?p=2385 Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 22 May 2013 14:41:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Hank Stuever http://www.hankstuever.com/blog/?p=2385&cpage=1#comment-17400 Hank Stuever Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:18:42 +0000 http://www.hankstuever.com/blog/?p=2385#comment-17400 Update, 4/22/11: Ugh. Tim Hetherington (and another photog, Chris Hondros) were killed in Libya yesterday, while working. It's sad beyond words. It makes me even more glad we went to hear Hetherington's talk last fall. Such a loss. Update, 4/22/11: Ugh. Tim Hetherington (and another photog, Chris Hondros) were killed in Libya yesterday, while working. It’s sad beyond words. It makes me even more glad we went to hear Hetherington’s talk last fall. Such a loss.

]]> By: Ben F Noviello http://www.hankstuever.com/blog/?p=2385&cpage=1#comment-17397 Ben F Noviello Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:10:17 +0000 http://www.hankstuever.com/blog/?p=2385#comment-17397 I just finished "Half Empty" and found it darkly funny and thoroughly brilliant. I, literally, had to stop reading every once and a while just to absorb what I had just read. And having recently read (or listened to) Rakoff's earlier compilations I found it interesting how much more mature and, well, passionate these essays were. I just finished “Half Empty” and found it darkly funny and thoroughly brilliant. I, literally, had to stop reading every once and a while just to absorb what I had just read. And having recently read (or listened to) Rakoff’s earlier compilations I found it interesting how much more mature and, well, passionate these essays were.

]]> By: Hank Stuever http://www.hankstuever.com/blog/?p=2385&cpage=1#comment-17396 Hank Stuever Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:44:53 +0000 http://www.hankstuever.com/blog/?p=2385#comment-17396 Teddy, as a fan of throwing a book I can't stand across the room (--cough-- "About a Mountain" by John D'Agata -- cough-cough--) and then retrieving it and reading it further so that I may hurl it once more, I can certainly relate. I'll keep your comment here, and I'm always happy to read a dissenting view, but I wonder (once again, always) why people don't put their full names on opinions like this. I never leave a comment anywhere online without my full name attached. (I mean, it's not like David Rakoff is going to hunt you down and kick your ass, right?) I know that I'm in the minority on this issue -- the web is a place where the chickenshitted have the right to roam free and say what they like, with the scrim of usernames and initials or simply going as "anonymous" for protection. I get it, but I don't understand why we conduct all conversation online with the equivalent of CB handles instead of our real names. Teddy, as a fan of throwing a book I can’t stand across the room (–cough– “About a Mountain” by John D’Agata — cough-cough–) and then retrieving it and reading it further so that I may hurl it once more, I can certainly relate.

I’ll keep your comment here, and I’m always happy to read a dissenting view, but I wonder (once again, always) why people don’t put their full names on opinions like this. I never leave a comment anywhere online without my full name attached. (I mean, it’s not like David Rakoff is going to hunt you down and kick your ass, right?)

I know that I’m in the minority on this issue — the web is a place where the chickenshitted have the right to roam free and say what they like, with the scrim of usernames and initials or simply going as “anonymous” for protection. I get it, but I don’t understand why we conduct all conversation online with the equivalent of CB handles instead of our real names.

]]> By: Teddy http://www.hankstuever.com/blog/?p=2385&cpage=1#comment-17395 Teddy Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:50:21 +0000 http://www.hankstuever.com/blog/?p=2385#comment-17395 Rakoff's book is the only one I read in 2010 that was also thrown across the room several times. He's a clever man, but he cannot stop himself from turning a good idea in to a gurningly overwritten mess. His essay on writing is one of the worst steaming piles I have read. Rakoff’s book is the only one I read in 2010 that was also thrown across the room several times. He’s a clever man, but he cannot stop himself from turning a good idea in to a gurningly overwritten mess. His essay on writing is one of the worst steaming piles I have read.

]]> By: Derba http://www.hankstuever.com/blog/?p=2385&cpage=1#comment-17394 Derba Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:19:56 +0000 http://www.hankstuever.com/blog/?p=2385#comment-17394 Never fear. I have all of your "index cards" in a Fed Ex box, in our extra closet. Never fear. I have all of your “index cards” in a Fed Ex box, in our extra closet.

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