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In 1985 American literary critic Jane Tompkins published a book, Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction. It was an attempt to attract critical attention to novels – often bestsellers – that had been traditionally ignored or even panned by the canon-makers who dominated literary criticism. It represented an opening up of “low” art [...]
This post is long, overdue, and wordy, and some of it was written while I had a fever. So I present as a pre-emptive antidote a very enjoyable and quite silly browser game about information overload.
My copy of February’s ICON magazine finally arrived – including a selection of microfiction written by readers in response to a prompt. Here’s my entry, which you can find on p82. She walks to town. I make maps from her iPhone’s footprints.Her geocodes build a city for me to explore. Height. Plans. Street View. Sales. [...]
Mary Hamilton is an award-winning journalist, constant learner, asipring coder, casual hardcore gamer and enthusiastic amateur data wrangler. You can contact her via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or email her at mary at maryhamilton dot co dot uk.
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