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Mark’s 2013 Scrapbook of All the Things
So I’m a dad, which means that half of the stuff on this list was released in 2012 or before, but I finally got around to reading/watching/listening to it this year. I'd like to preface this by saying...
View Article779 Research, Week 1
I'm going to be sharing some notes here from my research into literary utopias and dystopias for coursework I'm working on at UW-M for my PhD. Why? Because it's the 21st century, baby, and otherwise...
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Week 1 (continued):Thoughts on Digital Humanities:Forgive me and my Millennial-ness for maybe taking too much for granted here, or for oversimplifying the concept, but even as a child of the late 70's...
View Article779 Research Week 2
I'm going to be sharing some notes here from my research into literary utopias and dystopias for coursework I'm working on at UW-M for my PhD. Why? Because it's the 21st century, baby, and otherwise...
View Article779 Research, Week 3
I'm going to be sharing some notes here from my research into literary utopias and dystopias for coursework I'm working on at UW-M for my PhD. Why? Because it's the 21st century, baby, and otherwise...
View Article779 Research: Week 4
I'm going to be sharing some notes here from my research into literary utopias and dystopias for coursework I'm working on at UW-M for my PhD. Why? Because it's the 21st century, baby, and otherwise...
View Article779 Research Week 5
I'm going to be sharing some notes here from my research into literary utopias and dystopias for coursework I'm working on at UW-M for my PhD. Why? Because it's the 21st century, baby, and otherwise...
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I'm going to be sharing some notes here from my research into literary utopias and dystopias for coursework I'm working on at UW-M for my PhD. Why? Because it's the 21st century, baby, and otherwise...
View Article779 Research Weeks 7 & 8
I'm going to be sharing some notes here from my research into literary utopias and dystopias for coursework I'm working on at UW-M for my PhD. Why? Because it's the 21st century, baby, and otherwise...
View Article779 Research, Weeks 9 &10
I'm going to be sharing some notes here from my research into literary utopias and dystopias for coursework I'm working on at UW-M for my PhD. Why? Because it's the 21st century, baby, and otherwise...
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I'm going to be sharing some notes here from my research into literary utopias and dystopias for coursework I'm working on at UW-M for my PhD. Why? Because it's the 21st century, baby, and otherwise...
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Podcast: "Red Rocket" from Long Live Us at the CCLaP Sessions
Thanks to Jason Pettus at CCLaP for inviting me to be on CCLaP Sessions. Click the image below to hear me read my short story "Red Rocket" (From Long Live Us) in its entirety.
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Love At First Book is the first site to blurb Long Live Us
Rebecca Scallion took some time out to review my new novel at her blog, Love At First Book, and she had some very nice things to say about it. Click here for review:
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Review of Life After Sleep at The Lovely Bookshelf
Monika at The Lovely Bookshelf had some very nice things to say about Life After Sleep:Whoa, what a world Brand has created in Life After Sleep! In many ways, its society is similar to ours, but...
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The Next Best Book Blog "Best Of 2013" Roundup
The Next Best Book Blog included my picks for their annual "best of" roundup. Also recommending: Ryan Bradley, Giano Cromley, Heather Fowler, Tod Davies, Kim Henderson, David David Katzmann, Kathe...
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Reading @the Book Cellar with
I was invited to read at the Book Cellar with various other favorite Chicago literary scoundrels of mine including Ben Tanzer, Jason Fisk, Joseph G. Peterson, and my fellow City Colleges professor...
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WordPlaySound recording from The Book Cellar reading
Thanks to Ryan Singleton at WordPlaySound for organizing and making such a killer recording of the event last night. Listen to the podcast here:
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David Sheridan at Sabotage reviews Long Live Us
Many thanks to David Sheridan at Sabotage for digging into Long Live Us and writing maybe the most in-depth review of it yet. Click here to read the review.
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United We Read @ Boswell Books
Many thanks to the good people at Boswell Book Co. in Milwaukee for hosting us!
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Mark R. Brand Recommends: Frank Norris' McTeague
The good folks at The Next Best Book Blog featured my pick, Frank Norris'McTeague in Writers Recommend this week. Do you like brutish dentists, sexually-frustrated lottery-winning wives, lovesick...
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The Best of 2014
It's that time again! What time is that? you ask. The time when Mark shares all of the best stuff he came across this year, most of which is actually last year's stuff because he's a graduate student...
View ArticleLearning, Relearning
It's been almost a year since I've written anything here, and a big year. Like many other things in my life, this blog has been patiently waiting for me, largely neglected since 2011 when I went back...
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2112
Despite having a near-equal love for both science fiction and rock music, I somehow got to be 36 years old without ever really hearing this song. Which isn't to say I'd never heard it, but rather that...
View ArticlePrelim Reading List: the Good, the Bad, and the Ones You Can Skip
I'm a little more than 2/3 of the way through my prelim reading list, and I have some winners:1) Willa Cather's My Antonia. More charming than if Downton Abbey took place on the American Frontier. I'd...
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