Hello all! I am still working out my work processes. I am reading, and thinking about how to go forward with writing. I’m doing some rethinking about the structure of my main fiction project, a novel about people living in a society created by the upheavals surrounding climate change in the mid-21st century. I saw some pretty substantial flaws and want to correct them. My main non-fiction project these days is not book-by-book criticism, but preparing this year’s Birthday Lecture. For those unfamiliar, I give a lecture in the history of ideas at my birthday party (which is in late August). This year I am continuing last year’s examination of the history of Generation X into an examination of what transgressive/edgy culture was, what it meant, and what happened to it.
I do want to keep podcasting, even if I no longer review every book I read. I am not sure how to fit it into the rest of my agenda. My health situation is improving so I might have more energy, but I need to think about where to invest it. I’ll keep posting here on Fridays, and should have more content soon (or else, I can just wind this down, temporarily or permanently). And, of course, I have a Mithra pic.
Daria Morgendorffer on "edgy."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqJTMl1F9Wg
Looking forward to your birthday lecture! Very glad your health is improving.