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Wendy N. Wagner | editor • writer • foot traveler

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:15:37 +0000

endy N. Wagner grew up in a town so tiny it didn’t even have a post office. With no television reception, she became a rabid reader, waiting impatiently for the bookmobile’s fortnightly visit to her tiny hometown. Today, her family struggles to find room for her expanding book collection in their Portland, Oregon, home. She really likes books about horror movies, ecology, running, and vegan cooking.

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BBC News - Author Iain Banks has terminal cancer

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:35:02 +0000

This makes me very very sad: "Author Iain Banks has revealed that he has late stage cancer and is unlikely to live for more than a year."

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The Invisibles by Charles de Lint | Fantasy Magazine

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 03:38:44 +0000

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Ayn Rand: The Wired Interview (1998) Boing Boing

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:57:37 +0000

"11 years ago I blind-pitched Wired magazine an ill-defined article on Rand. In response, they asked me to write an "interview" with her, where I would come up with all of the questions and then cobble together her answers from things that she had written and said (she died in 1982)."

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Amazon.com: Leslie M. Orchard: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle

Fri, 29 May 2009 14:00:04 +0000

"Leslie Michael Orchard is a hacker, tinkerer, and creative technologist working in the Ann Arbor / Detroit, MI area. He lives with two spotted Ocicats, two dwarf bunnies, and a very patient and understanding wife. On rare occasions when spare time comes in copious amounts, he plays around with odd bits of code and writing, sharing them on his Web site named 0xDECAFBAD (http://decafbad.com/)."

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Autopope! - Uh-oh

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:50:59 +0000

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Titles List (Library of Congress Online Catalog) - Session timeout in 4:36

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:51:27 +0000

Hey, look, I'm in the LIbrary of Congress! "Displaying 1 through 3 of 3."

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Whatever » Reader Request Week 2008 #10: Meeting Authors (and Me)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:14:05 +0000

"One aspect of fame — even the rather meager portion of it that I and most authors have — is that more people know you than you know, and they have a relationship with you that you don’t have with them."

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'The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered' - Clive James

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:32:04 +0000

"My enemy's much-prized effort sits in piles / In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs."

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Ficlets | Ficlets Blog | Working the LongPen

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:17:36 +0000

"where I was signing and where the books would be signed would be separated by 3,000 miles. This all seemed fairly science fictiony to me, so I said sure, I’d give it a try."

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