Entries Tagged as 'writers'

FJM is no more

November 16th, 2008 · No Comments

As the lack of consistent activity on Billy Paultz Revisited may suggest, maintaining a blog can be a pain in the ass. Especially if you have a life, and double-especially if you work, and triple-especially if the work is primarily writing of a non-blog variety.
Anyway, the web lost a wondrous presence to such realities last week when Fire Joe Morgan ceased […]

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Tags: writers · sportswriting · dumbness · media · baseball

David Foster Wallace RIP

September 16th, 2008 · No Comments

I somehow missed this, which happened late Friday, until today (Monday). “David Foster Wallace, writer of dark, manic irony, has committed suicide…” Reading that made air rush from my gut. It was as if I’d lost someone from my own family, which sounds ridiculous and celebrity-obsessed, like those simps who make a annual vacation of going […]

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Tags: academia · writers