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Rated 3.9 out of 5 by 381 reviewers.
Rated 3 out of 5 by Maliah45 Place was nice but Very poor customer service Ladies in the front desk were not friendly or accommodating at all. Check in time was 3:00 pm. We got there at 3:10 pm but room was not ready yet. We had to wait another 30 minutes for the room to be ready. Coffee machine in room was defective. When I called the front desk about it, the person on the front desk said that I can come down and get coffee in the lobby. I asked her if someone can bring coffee for us to the room and she rudely said, "You have to come down and make it yourself. " So I just asked her if if we can get another coffee maker and she said she'll send someone up to bring us one. But I had to call her again after 20 minutes because it had'nt come yet. I'm not hard to please but this is the worst customer service from a hotel that I've ever experienced. I think the hotel should make a complete makeover of its staff especially those in the front desk. January 1, 2013
Rated 1 out of 5 by jng24 Blood On The Sheets!! I would first like to start by saying that the mattresses where like sleeping on a sack of rocks. if your are charging that much money for guests to stay each night you can surely afford new comfortable mattresses. There was blood all over the comforter of one of the beds and it took THREE times of us calling the front desk to have them finally changed! I will not ever stay here again and I wont recomend this hotel! December 18, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by Bobby12345 Great stay Great stay. Would come back again. July 12, 2014
Rated 3 out of 5 by mjll aloft national harbor The hotel was clean and new but my room already showed some peeling wallpaper and worm carpet. The hotel has a clean modern look which is but is very plain. The floor in the lobby is concrete and the ventilation is exposed. The room has cubby holes and no drawers so storage in limited if you are there for more than a couple of days. The bed is on a platform with a thin mattress which I found very hard March 10, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Karma1207 Beautiful hotel! We were impressed with the clean lines and décor of the hotel. The location allowed us to walk to the Capital Wheel, the shopping and restaurants. The glass enclosed shower was huge, nice not getting tangled in a moldy shower curtain! June 23, 2014
Rated 3 out of 5 by Denise1 Poor Housekeeping Issues Very few staff members and maybe the staff was too young and inexperienced for a hotel in a large city. Our rooms were never properly cleaned in the four days we stayed in the hotel. We had to call every night to receive clean towels. Sometimes we would have to make numerous nightly calls to receive towels. I have stayed in other Aloft properties throughout the US and have not experienced this poor service. July 26, 2012
Rated 2 out of 5 by ZC22 Had to ask for help--didn't get it When I checked into the room the water in the toilet was running constantly and quite loudly--not possible that the staff was not aware of it. On second day the toilet quit working altogether. I asked for it to be repaired in person at the front desk--5 hours later it had not even been looked at. Was fed some story about fixing a toilet in another room. Took another hour to have it fixed. Won't be back. September 20, 2013
Rated 3 out of 5 by coolbagh This hotel has excellent customer service. This hotel was an overflow to a conference hotel which was booked. The hotel itself appears to be an older hotel. It is centrally located to all dining, shopping and sight seeing. What the hotel lacked in appearance was made up for with the most excellent customer service and friendliness of the staff, specifically the general manager, Mauricio, assistant general manager, Bobby and bartender, Sabrina. December 9, 2013
Rated 2 out of 5 by ZMan8 Expensive Hotel Very expensive hotel for not a lot of value. The hotel is very modern and looks nice; but the nightly rate is VERY expensive. I went down to have a drink in their well decorated bar. No food in the bar and drinks were incredibly expensive. June 19, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by George54 A good value This was my second stay at this hotel. I stayed 3 nights and had no issues with my check-in or with any of the facilities. Everything worked well. The room was quiet and comfortable. The staff were friendly and courteous. Pricing was very competitive. I will definitely stay there again. June 8, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by Girls4 A Wonderful Stay Location of the hotel is in the middle of the action. You can walk out of the hotel and there is eating, entertainment, etc at your door step. The staff was friendly and recognized upon my arrival that I was a SPG member. I would definitely stay at this hotel again when I return to the National Harbor. For the price I paid I was truly amazed with the decor, cleaniness and friendliness of the staff. September 12, 2012
Rated 3 out of 5 Good if you want to stay in National Harbor Convenient location to the main plaza, but overall the service isn't the best. Sadly, this is the case with most of National Harbor, so my expectations weren't let down so much. The second night I stayed there, they didn't have any bagels or muffins, which was disappointing. Service could improve if the staff was I'd recommend staying here if you want a nice waterfront view, and that's about it. December 16, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by AKB1979 Good value for price point. I got a deal on Expedia and felt like I got a great value for my money. July 5, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by WW22 Friendliest and most helpful hotel staff aLoft takes an almost minimalistic approach to facility amenities - but room was comfortable and adequate for 1 guest. Staff was excellent from reception to service in the bar (although they were out of food), breakfast kitchen staff and the new hotel manager who actually greeted people at the door and asked for feedback. My room was clean and verything worked well (internet, shower, TV, etc.)! June 10, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by kwash03 Very Impressed With The Improvements.... I have stayed at the Aloft on many occasions due to our corporate account. I however would've preferred another on-site hotel due to issues with previous stays, and had no intentions of promoting the hotel to friends, families or business associates. I'm elated to say that this last stay was by far the BEST I've EVER experienced, from the greeting received when I arrived from Marvin, to walking into my room to a very pleasant scent, the pleasant Aloft hotel musical/marketing piece greeting me on the TV, the warm temperature after being outside on one of the coldest days ever experienced in this area, and the cleanliness of the room and the fact that everything in the room worked put me over the edge, the blinds, the remote, the lights etc. Thank you for such a wonderful experience and I look forward to staying with you again in the near future and will pass the word along to friends and family! February 7, 2014
Rated 2 out of 5 by caboy Bad first experience Arrived at 2:00 p.m. and couldn't checkin as checkin time is 3. Did a 'pre-check in' at that time but that did absolutely nothing. Went back at 3:45 and room still wasn't ready. Had to settle on a different room and when we got to the room, there were NO towels but everything else was tidy. Manager/Supervisor on duty, Bobby Brown, was not helpful at all and woudn't address us at the counter. December 9, 2013
Rated 2 out of 5 by UnhappyGuest29 Housekeeping is Horrible Housekeeping did not come by to clean the room one day. I come in late from a nearby conference to unmade beds, no clean towels, and full trash cans with old food. Called to front desk to tell them about the unclean room and received this reply: "So what EXACTLY do you need?" This was very rude and I was highly disappointed. I have received better service from hotels that cost half the price. April 7, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by johnny98 Great place to stay Great staff and hotel amenities but don't book your trip relying on the shuttle to the metro station. It fills up fast and could leave you stranded. Fortunately that didn't happen to us but I saw it happen to others especially around rush hour. That's why it lost a star. If you have a car it's perfect and in close enough proximity to everything. Walking distance to many great restaurants. October 23, 2013
Rated 2 out of 5 by Harvey2013 Disappointed We paid for a room that would sleep four. Only two of us went and we were cramped. No closet space and no where to put folded clothes. There were no towels in the room upon arrival (after 6pm). They waited until we arrived to annoy us with telephone maintenance. The bed was uncomfortable and the hallways were noisy during the night. We will never stay at the Aloft at National Harbor again. April 7, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by Martini101 Nice Contemporary Hotel This was my first time staying at an Aloft Hotel. Really liked the contemporary style of this hotel. July 1, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Stacy1234 Great Weekend Stay The Aloft folks at National Habor (DC) were very accomodating in suggestions & tips for celebrating our daughters 16 bday at the hotel/harbor. The manager @ hotel (Adrian) I think was her name was so sweet to us and when we came to check out the rooms the weekend prior to our stay we just "clicked" Thank you so much for a memorable weekend. Everyone at the front desk met our expectations! February 4, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by Steph88 Nice Hotel I've stayed here twice and the first time was excellent. I have a few issues the second stay with a broken thermostat in my room and a bathroom door that would not stay closed, but the front desk quickly switched me to another room so all was well. Decent pricing, room is contemporary, clean, and overall comfortable. The bar in the lobby is a nice touch. Would stay here again. February 21, 2014
Rated 1 out of 5 by Disappointed05 Would not stay here again The Aloft Hotel I stayed at is located in Oxen Hill, MD. This hotel is more for the young crowd who does not worry about hanging clothes up or putting them away in a dresser drawer. There wasn't any to use. The rooms feel crowded for the amount of furniture in it. AC is very loud. Fridge too small for anything and ice machine too far to go to. Would not recommend this place to no one. August 27, 2013
Rated 2 out of 5 by SKIM Room charged wrong 2 out of 3 times First night I stayed here i was charged correctly. Also the room I had the main lights did not work so the room was dim. 2nd night I stayed there I was overcharged $40 then the 3rd night I was there I was overcharged $300 some odd dollars. I will not stay at this location EVER again. I've stayed at the ALOFT many times and this is the first time I've encountered this level of service. January 24, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by Cheermomma We Love Aloft! We travel at least once a month for cheer competitions and we ALWAYS choose Aloft if there is one within a reasonable distance. Aloft is alwaya located in a safe environment, the rooms are extremely nice and clean, as is the hotel. The employees are friendly and willing to help. The location of Aloft at National Harbor was fabulous and we can't wait to go back to enjoy the area. January 29, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by LuckyLou52 Great Experience This hotel was really focused on customer service. I was greeted promptly upon check. The bar tender was friendly and knowledgeable about drinks. June 24, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by SUGARKANE Beautiful view of the Harbor! I chose this hotel because I had never been to the National Harbor, and wanted to visit for my Birthday. The area was perfect for shopping, eating and relaxing. I liked this hotel the most for it's beautiful view of the Harbor, and the upbeat atmosphere. The room was very clean, and we appreciated the small fridge that was in the room, and the complimentary bottled water provided every day. The staff was extremely professional, and helpful. All of our needs were met. I only had one complaint, and that was the sheets on the bed. They were very stiff and did not feel soft to the skin, nor did they fit the bed. Every morning the sheets would have come loose from the bed, and we were on the mattress. I was told that new sheets had been ordered for al the rooms, so I guess that small inconvenience will be fixed! I felt that the drinks at the XYZ bar were overpriced, but it is what it is. Overall a great experience! January 5, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by steve1742 excellent experience the hotel was well located, convenient, clean, comfortable and was perfect for our visit to national harbor. the room had an EXCELLENT view of the water and ferris wheel, with plenty of room and a balcony. June 15, 2014
Rated 3 out of 5 by DIP58 Great location! Aloft offers a comfortable stay in a beautifully placed hotel location near the water and convention centre. June 26, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by drCtravels Convenient, comfortable The clerk at the desk was professional while being personable. The 2 other staff we encountered were equally so. The room was very comfortable; the manner of separating the shower/toilet are from the rest of the bathroom and closet is clever and allows people to do different get ready tasks with privacy and ample elbow room. I have already recommended this hotel to others. November 22, 2012


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Former leader, União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA)
Date of Birth: 03/08/1934Place of Birth: MunhangoDied: 22/02/2002
Married to Ana Isabel Paulino, 5 children
Education: Silva Porto Secondary School; University of Lisbon, Portugal, 1958-60; University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 1961-64; University of Lausanne, 1964-65.
Career: Secretary General, União das Populaçoes da Angola, 1962; Foreign Minister, Governo Reolucionario da Angola no Exilio, 1962-64; With Antonio Fernandes founded National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), 1966; Leader of UNITA, 1968-2002.
Commentary: An undying ambition to rule Angola was both Savimbi's greatest strength and greatest weakness. For nearly 40 years it helped him operate in the maquis and impose an iron discipline on his movement. UNITA grew from organising villages in the remote east in the 1960s into a force capable of confronting all-out assaults by possibly the strongest armies in Africa, the Cuban and Angolan, and surviving - with protection from apartheid South Africa. Savimbi proved a master at the ideological ballet: courting the Chinese and the Zambians, then the South Africans, the Americans and conservative rulers such as Mobutu Sese Seko, Félix Houphouët-Boigny and King Hassan II.
His initial military training was in Nanking, China; he obtained covert military equipment, Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, from the Central Intelligence Agency and visited Ronald Reagan at the White House. Anti-white feeling was strong in his UNITA – the MPLA was criticised for having too many mesticos – and yet white South Africans working for the apartheid regime helped run his election campaign. Savimbi regards this as pragmatic. A charismatic orator, Savimbi charmed foreign backers and encouraged deep resentment among his Ovimbundu people towards the MPLA coastal elite to reach the brink of power in the 1992 elections.
If the polls had been soon after the Bicesse peace accords in May 1991, Savimbi would have stood a better chance: José Eduardo dos Santos' goverment was in disarray, with senior party officials preparing to emigrate. Savimbi was poised to swap his military uniform for a suit. Poorly advised by UNITA sycophants and outsiders, Savimbi ran a disastrous campaign steeped in aggressive rhetoric. When the vote went against him, he rejected opposition politics in Luanda and retreated to Huambo, withdrawing his officers from the integrated armed forces. The ensuing return to war cost an estimated 500,000 lives. Within months, UNITA forces occupied Huambo and 80% of Angola, though most people lived in government-controlled areas. After UNITA's defeat at Cuito in June 1994, the war shifted in the government's favour, and the Forças Armadas Angolanas recaptured Huambo from UNITA.
Savimbi finally agreed that UNITA would sign the United Nations-mediated peave accord in Lusaka. In exchange, his forces were protected from annihilation. He rearmed using some $300mn. from the UNITA-occupied diamond areas. As in 1991-92, Savimbi stalled on demobilisation, disarmament and demining. Repeated threats by the UN convinced him to accept UNITA's participation in the GURN.
The fall of his friend Mobutu Sese Seko in May 1997 dealt a further blow to Savimbi's international support, together with the rise of South Africa's African National Congress, the United States' recognition of Dos Santos' government and the spreading coalition of African countries centred around Uganda's Yoweri Museveni, who saw UNITA as an ally of Mobutu and Rwandan Hutu extremists.
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When Grandad offered us kids pie with calf slobbers, the others always said no. Left a lot more pie for Grandad and me. Heh.
Interesting how the ghost wife looks quite a lot like Danae…
"Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens" is a 1946 song, with music and lyrics by Alex Kramer and Joan Whitney. It was recorded by Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five.
At this point, I'll take either one, as long as it says something more specific than "thanks for the gift."
Those who don't bother to even acknowledge the gift will never see another one from me, as a number of family members have found out.
Hmmph. NSA folks don't dress that well. You're confusing wireheads with the FBI… "Suits vs normals" is the phrase, I believe.
Dad bought a new vacuum cleaner for Mom one Christmas, while she'd gotten him something very personal (don't remember what). It was a very chilly Christmas Day…
Why? Because things for the house were not solely Mom's, but for the house. Everyone used that vacuum, the kitchen stuff, etc.
If Spousal Unit specifically asks for something I place in the household stuff category, that's one thing. But to just get it, assuming SU will appreciate it? Nah, that's marital suicide in my book.
My brother is a veterinarian. To become a human doctor, all he has to do is take a human anatomy course and do a one year residency. He knew several folks who could not get into vet school, but became human docs.
This explains the fowl (foul) odor wafting off Capitol Hill and along Pennsylvania Ave…
We ate in the kitchen or dining room, nowhere else, except for popcorn in front of the TV, once in a while. Defy that rule and the consequences were significant.
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…with family in Leeds, at home and at my Gran's. I took pictures through the day inspired by Martin Parr, and got one of my sisters to use the same approach too.
Here are some pics we took (only the ones my family allowed me to show)
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To come: blog entry analysing this type of photography, and looking over my pics in 2010.
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white dudes smug in their bigotry
Tell me this doesn't sound like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity or any other white conservative dude with a huge public platform?
These men give atheists a bad name, and they give liberalism a bad name.
While I agree that the mainstream liberal ideology is sort of useless, I think what Maher, Harris, and Dawkins say and have said about Muslims over and over again for the last decade is quite obviously racist and imperialistic.
Been a while since I posted, but this is something I think about a lot. The failure of liberals [especially white liberals] to look at the world around them and think critically. If you think a religion or all religions is the greatest threat to existence, I think you're being a bit insane.
Religion is a tool used by humans. Some use it for antisocial purposes, and some use it for prosocial purposes.
If I murder someone with a hammer, the hammer is not to blame.
If I murder someone in the name of christianity or judaism or islam, it says more about me than it does about any of those religions.
ydde who
Been doing a lot since I last posted. Things have changed in a big way. A very very good way though.
Anyrate, I tried to write a novel almost two weeks ago. Got a thousand words in and realised it wasn't what it was meant to be or what I wanted it to be. I was relying too much on my familiar tricks: lots of narrators, lots of shits, weird structure, obfuscation. So I shelved it and tried to write a completely different novel but got nowhere on that either.
So I had two novels I needed to write. One about a hermit and accidental cult leader, the other about a young female graverobber.
Had no idea how to write either one and it was tearing at me, berating me.
And then on Tuesday they both took shape in my head. The hermit/cult leader one is going to be very much influenced by Milan Kundera, and I'm sort of going to steal his style, since I think I need to write in a radically new way. Or at least a radically new one for me. And then the graverobbing novel will be more similar to how I wrote Twilight of the Wolves, but much, much shorter and set in this world. They'll actually both be set in this world. Sometimes people call it the real world or earth.
It began like wildfire on Wednesday morning and now I'm nearly seventy pages into one of them and it feels glorious. It's a bit of magic realism and surrealism but also set in a mostly present day world, which is so strange to write again, after several years writing centuries in the future or in completely different realities.
I think I'm about halfway finished, maybe more. Hoping to get another 5,000 words in today, though that may not happen. I leave for Chicago on Sunday and will be there for almost a week, so I'd like to have it finished before then, but that's very soon.
We'll see though. It's going to be a short novel, so it's definitely possible. These last 20,000 words or so should be pretty fast paced.
I hope.
Other than that, I've been spending way to much time playing Civilization V but I also started working out again, so I should be in good shape in a few months. Finally.
It really sucks being fat.
I'll hopefully start using my site more again. I have lots of thoughts about a lot of things and I want to get them down here.
Maybe soon.
Later, gators.
why we die is none of your business
I love Robin Williams. Along with many others, I'll miss him. He was a big part of my childhood and I truly loved his movies, from the insanely silly, to the tragic. He was just great, especially at his most chaotic or reserved.
But this post is only a little bit about him. Probably this will read very oddly to a lot of people. But this post is about dying. Mostly, it's about suicide, which is something it seems like I'm always writing about. Even Noir: A Love Story is about suicide. It's probably the best statement I can make on the matter, though I've made many other ones.
When people commit suicide, everyone wants to know why. Everyone feels they have the right to know why. They demand it to the point of harassment and abuse. Even those who come out on Robin Williams' side seem to believe they are owed an explanation.
But you're not.
There is no privilege in the Death of another.
When someone dies, especially when they kill themselves, it has nothing to do with you, especially if you're a stranger to the person. Even if you're a dear friend or family member, the suicide of another is not about you.
A lot of people call suicide cowardly or selfish, but I think this is a pretty ridiculous position to take. If it's selfish, it assumes that their life belongs to you. For them to end it before you were ready becomes tragic and almost like an existential attack.
It's not.
While the Death of another and the suicide of a family member or close friend is impossibly sad, it doesn't belong to you. You get your grief, and probably you'll share that with dozens or hundreds or millions, in the case of the Williams family. For the grieving, this is a tragedy, but for the dead, it may be an end to the tragedy.
The tragedy of existence. Of living in this world that never feels right, that never feels a part of you, that not only rejects you, but the life and dignity of everyone you've ever known, of everyone you've ever heard of.
I'm a melancholic sort. I've dreamt of Death almost my whole life. I suffer from depression sometimes so severe I can barely stand up or breathe, but my depression doesn't come from within me. It comes from the world around me. This incredible weight, this dangerous mountain looming over me, taunting me.
It's life that defeats me, that infects me with its disease that withers my insides and turns everything to rot.
I think suicide is valid. I think we're allowed to exit life when we choose. It's criminal, to me, that it's a crime to kill yourself or that institutions can force you to keep on living.
Before I go too far down that road, I will say this: there absolutely should be assistance for those who need and want it. We obviously need better mental health outreach and education and facilities. But if I tell a psychologist or psychiatrist that I intend to kill myself, it shouldn't be legal for them to detain me.
And there's a lot that goes into this. I thin about South Korea and how suicide is out of control there, or how austerity has essentially forced a generation of old men and women to commit suicide in places like Italy, because they must now choose between the streets and slow starvation or a quick way out.
An escape.
Have you ever noticed that there are only two times we refer to escape as a negative?
Genre fiction and suicide.
Every other use of this word has a positive connotation. And let's say that we are escaping life.
Why is that your business? Why is it the business of anyone besides the person escaping?
Our life is not our own. I firmly believe that. We belong to the people who we choose to share our lives with.
But that doesn't mean that we control them or we have the right to their life and Death. They're sharing their life with us.
They don't need to share their Death with us too.
Maybe I'm just overly protective of Death because it feels very personal and close to me. I feel protective and outraged when people attack our right to die.
Suicide may be an end to tragedy. You may disagree with it and you may mourn–you're allowed that. You're allowed to wish and hope, and you're allowed to share your feelings of regret.
That's all fine and valid.
But so is a suicide's right to hold itself private. We are allowed to die and you don't deserve to know why.
And while the world will miss Robin Williams, he doesn't owe you anything, especially in Death, especially after giving the world so much.
Let him have his peace.
noir: a love story: a launch story
So Noir: A Love Story is finally released!
I hope you go out and buy it.
If you buy it this weekend, I'll send you a free copy of Girl with Ears & Demon with Limp!
So go love your life and buy my book and maybe fall in love.
See you later, gator.
on autobiography
I was reading about Karl Ove Knausgard last night [I emphasise reading about, not actually reading his books], and it reminds me how strange I always find that sort of writing, the deeply and intensely personal reflection on the life you actually lived or are continuing to live. And it'd be one thing if it were a couple hundred or even a handful of hundreds, but to go on and on about your life would drive me insane. Like, just physically? How could you stomach yourself for over 1,000 pages? How could you look at all those moments of your life and want to tell the world about them?
I find it almost revolting. I'm sure his gargantuan autobiography is quite good, as such things are judged, but I can't imagine reading even a bit of it. And I can't imagine going that direction with my own writing, though maybe I will some day [what do I know?], but I find it incredibly difficult to write about who I am without constantly lying or choosing a perspective that has nothing to do with me. Like, if I were to start an autobiography today, I'd probably write it from the perspective of the woman I didn't become because at least she could see me with some kind of validity.
And maybe that's part of it: I don't think people can ever see themselves correctly. We are who the people around us say we are. I think identity is collective, not individual. Probably most people disagree with that, not only from a personal identity standpoint, but philosophically and politically.
I can't read cogito ergo sum without rolling my eyes. I can't even think about it without thinking how stupid it is. Humans don't exist in a vacuum. They don't exist separate of all other humans, so to begin a philosophy there [especially one dealing with humanness] is beyond ludicrous to me. And he's the beginning of so much thought!
It's no wonder I find humans absurd and ridiculous. It's no wonder I find myself in constant disagreement with much of western philosophy, with much of western thinking. I think that even the way we think about thinking is broken. And let's not even mention dualism or the obscurification of philosophical language.
But I don't really want to talk about that. I want to talk about autobiography, because that's what we're all doing anyway, constantly, yeah? Social media is a continuous compendium of autobiography. Even the fiction many of us write is just thinly veiled autobiography, or there are those [like me] who are literally putting all of me on paper, but I cut it up, mix it around, throw in some magic, some wolves, some ravens, some giant trees, countless contradictory narrators, and a structure that's more like a puzzle than a line.
But that's how I deal with the world. That's how I make sense of it.
I need to break it apart and make it fit in my head.
Because the world's too large for me.
Existence is simply too much to handle or hold inside you.
It's too beautiful.
It's too terrifying.
And so I find autobiography interesting, but only theoretically. And scandinavians have a different relationship to it than we do here. Some of their biggest literary achievements are just autobiography. I don't remember the names, but last year I did a lot of research about scandinavian literature [because, yeah, it's cool], and I found several enormous autobiographies, which is surely where this newest phenomena descends from.
I kept a journal the month I met Chelsea, while I was wandering around alone. I've considered publishing it. I'd need to type it up first. But thinking about typing it out is even difficult. Imagining reading my naked thoughts is terrifying. I'd rather have someone else do it.
Which, incidentally, is why I find it difficult to read my books when they become books: I see it all too plainly.
Want to know who that old man is at the beginning of Ash Cinema? Want to know who the teenage girl is? [speaking of her: no one has ever discussed or mentioned how that novel has an explicit relationship between a teenager and a septuagenarian, but, yeah] Want to know who Aya is? Want to know who the wolves are? Want to know why so many characters can't speak? Want to know why so many of them die? Want to know who the child goddess at the center of everything is?
It's not as simple as just saying they're me, because of course they are: I wrote them. But if every character is just ydde, than who am I, and what's the point of all of them?
No, none of them are me, really, but all of them are a little bit.
All of it happened to me, but none of it is my life.
That brings me to another thing about my work that sort of surprises me and people. My work is generally quite serious. It's often grim and dark, but I find a lot of hope in it. I hope others do too. But I think when people know me through my writing they expect me to be a very serious and intelligent and severe person.
But I'm really quite silly.
When people know me first in real life and then pick up my books, I think they're expecting comedy or at least some zaniness. Instead they get dying gods and apocalypse.
See, for me, writing is a way to free myself of all that. Or, not free myself, but find a way to contextualise it and understand it. This darkness inside me, occluding light. It allows me to remain silly and carefree, even as I waltz the Death of humanity onto hundreds of pages. It allows me to strip myself bare and tell you everything you never knew because you're not looking for me: you're looking for yourself, for all of us.
It's slight of hand. That's the real goal.
And when I'm most naked on the page, that's when you see the strange elements rise. I think that's the biggest reason I can't read Ash Cinema: it's too personal. Just the fact that it's about film makes it too close to my heart. It was the first time I wrote something that made me cry. Twilight of the Wolves would cause me to cry several times for some of the same reasons.
But that's why I can't understand the compulsion to tell your life story.
I mean, who wants to read that?
That's a question I'd never be able to get past as a writer: why should anyone care?
And even if I did get past that, I'd feel that I was constantly lying, not telling it right. If I wrote an autobiography, I'd want to just interview everyone I've known and have them write it together.
Which is where Noir: A Love Story's structure comes from.
But, yeah, late night thought.
Maybe I'll share my strange and hilarious life some day.
There's more to be said about this, but Cornel West gets to the heart of the matter.
amazon or big publishing?
Starting this with a video so you at least have some entertainment before I talk about something most of you don't care about. Or at least you don't care what I think about this, and I probably have unpopular views about this. So, yeah, here's some strange popculture phenomenon.
This debate keeps coming up and I mostly think it's funny because both are big publishing. Amazon's just a lot bigger.
We have people on both sides saying the other side is ruining the industry, and they're absolutely right.
Both are ruining the book industry.
But let's think about what that means, yeah?
The book industry is a very recent thing to begin with so is it a bad thing for it to disappear?
This is the kind of question I never really see or hear. People act like you need to choose between Big Publishing and Amazon, but both choices are, I think, destructive to literature, so why is this the debate?
It also turns out that most of indie literature is under the same distributor, which sort of defeats a lot of what it means to be indie, I think. And, as far as I can tell, the goal for most indie writers is to get picked up by a Big Publisher, and the goal of a lot of indie presses is to become an imprint of a larger publisher.
I'm speaking in generalities, of course. These aren't the goals of every single writer and publisher, but it feels like the trend, or hope.
For a long time, industries have consisted of whales and krill. It feels like indie's want to be swallowed by the whale.
But which whale is the right whale to inhabit?
Do you want to be in Amazon or Big Publishing?
Either way, you're still krill being consumed and churned over.
There must be a third way, yeah?
A way for indie presses and indie writers to remain indie and reach actual readers. I, obviously, don't have a solution, but I think this Amazon v Big Publishing is just absurd.
So is the stigma against selfpublishing, which seems to be part of why writers/publishers hate Amazon.
This is just nonsense. Some of the greatest writers selfpublished their novels. For example, Virginia Woolf [she and her husband founded and ran their press] and Edgar Allen Poe and Honore de Balzac and William Blake and almost every writer of the past.
I've tried selfpublishing also, and I plan on continuing to do so.
See, I don't think we should look at literature as a place that needs to fit into industry standards. You don't need to be an Amazon writer or a traditional publishing writer. You can do both. You can be both.
Often times people castigate selfpublished books for their editing. The simple solution is to hire a professional editor [something that no indie press does] or ask a friend who knows grammar to do it.
My first novel had no editor. There are typos in the novel, or so I'm told. I can't read my books as books. It feels too weird to look at the words in print when I'm used to seeing them on the screen, where I can rewrite them.
My second novel had a professional editor and proofreader and they were fantastic, though that was through John Hunt Publishing, which isn't indie in the way that most people think about it. They sell too many books.
My third novel was edited by my friend, who is also the resident editor there.
And that's sort of the indie standard, so for them to tell selfpublished authors that they need to go through a traditional funnel is pretty amusing to me. I mean, I trust my friends in the indie community with my words and I know they're great editors, but none of them do that for a living, which is maybe a silly delineation, but there you have it.
Also, I keep hearing that even writers who get through with Big Publishing have to do their own marketing.
So what's the real difference between indie, selfpublishing, and Big Publishing?
It seems like Big Publishing has name recognition and money on their side, though that money doesn't seem to go to most authors, just like how most Amazon selfpublished authors don't make much money. In fact, we're hearing more and more how no writers are making any money. Probably why most writers I know are also professors of creative writing.
There's nothing wrong with that, of course, but it shows that neither of these models is working for anyone, really. A few outliers in each tract make it work and become millionaires. The rest of us are sharing a tiny sliver of a large pie, because more people are reading now than ever before.
The belief that the opposite is true is just silly, and Amazon is definitely responsible for getting more people to read.
The kindle changed publishing. There's no going back, and so writers and publishers need to adapt to it.
But there are tons and tons of readers across the globe, across the country, across your state. The problem is that you don't know how to reach them and, probably, that you're not writing books they want to read.
This is not a fault of the audience. It's your fault.
If you're writing experimental fiction, you need to accept that you're speaking to a relatively small sliver of an already small sliver of a gigantic pie. The literary genre is a small sliver of that giant pie, and genre fiction is the real person at the table, eating all the pie.
This is not the reader's fault.
Genre fiction is awesome and a lot of those writers give you everything a big Literary name gives you but they throw in monsters and faster than light travel and robots. It's sort of the case of giving children a bit of sugar with their medicine. The literary genre, and experimental genre, especially, tend to just want to dose you with medicine. And that's great. I, personally, love that, but I'm a specific kind of reader, and so is most of the indie community.
And, to be honest, so is most of the audience who reads the new Delillos and Pynchons and Roths. They're a very specific kind of reader who do not represent the culture. These are the kind of writers who win awards, but they're not the kind of writers who get lots of readers. I mean, Delillo, Pynchon, and Roth are fine because they've been at it forever and have found their real audiences, and those are a lot more people than any of us can hope for. But for newish writers who aren't at their level, you need to realise that your postmodern retelling of A Midsummer's Night Dream set on a Haitian plantation isn't going to register as appealing with most readers.
That's not their fault, and it's not your fault.
By all means, go write that! But stop bemoaning the state of literature. Save that for your friends, who will put up with your rants.
I'm looking at you, Will Self.
This year made me realise that I may never make any money as a writer, which is a bummer, and that even hitting a big publisher won't change that, because, apparently, they don't help you market.
Which brings me to something about marketing.
Writers are terrible at it. Sure, there are those who make it really work, but most writers are the worst marketers the world has ever seen. It's not out fault. That's not the skillset we cultivated.
This is going to be an extremely unpopular opinion, but I think you shouldn't start a press of any kind if you're not willing to hire a marketer and/or publicist for your writers. If you don't hire that person, then you need to make it happen for them. You, as the publisher, need to make sure that your writers are successful.
I get why no one does this. It's difficult and time consuming, and most indie publishers are also writers who have their own career as a writer to keep in mind. I also understand why they want their writers to do all the promotions themselves. Native content works best. I get that.
But most writers don't even have the slightest idea how to market. That's partly probably why they're writing books. They're not very good at communicating with people what they feel and what they want. If a love letter takes a writer 300 pages to write, do you really think they're going to know how to convince other people to read it?
Maybe this sounds ranty or like a complaint. That's not my intention, and I imagine this will be an unpopular opinion, but I think picking sides between Big Publishing and Amazon is just plain stupid.
Neither of them are your friends. Neither of them care about your art. Neither of them care about you.
Amazon loses nothing by you not selling anything, but they gain from your success.
Big Publishing loses a lot if you're not selling. For them, the bottom line is the driving force. And they also gain everything from your success.
So let's do it without them, yeah? Let's find a way to cut out the executives. Maybe the real first step there is creating an actual distribution channel that works for small presses. Let's get some syndicalism in publishing, yeah? Let's help one another move around these whales and find some open water without them.
Or not.
But when you fight for Amazon, don't pretend like you care about all writers, publishers, and books.
And when you fight for Big Publishing, don't pretend you care about all writers, publishers, and books.
some things go noirish in the daylight
Every day this week I'll be running a little giveaway at 1pm CST. I'm giving away Ash Cinema, Twilight of the Wolves, and Noir: A Love Story.
Today I asked people to give me a reason why they needed to have my books, and I gave the winner all three.
So check in to my facebook page at 1pm every day to see what's happening.
Noir: A Love Story comes out in just ten days and I'll try to make something special every day.
So pay attention, because they won't last long.
In other news, Dennis Cooper read and loved my book! Honored and humbled and surprised. He talks about other books in there too, because he's Dennis Coooper and he's a groovy cat.
Also, some discussions of short film at Entropy:
Someone's Gaze by Makoto Shinkai
on blurbury
Been way too long since I posted something. About a month, actually. Been insanely busy though.
I just wanted to talk briefly about blurbs. Most probably don't know what that is, but writers are crazy about that word. It's such a big part of their world that it's almost absurd. Here's how it goes for me.
For Ash Cinema, I didn't even try to get a blurb. Didn't even look for one. I like that novel a lot, especially as time goes on, but I never really felt like I had to grab at people's attention with it.
For Twilight of the Wolves, I reached out to a lot of writers that I truly love. Mostly just big names because I think you may as well reach as high as possible, because the worst thing that can happen is they say No, which takes nothing away from you. I went for big names too, because this is a difficult novel to pitch and sell, and I thought having some famous names on the cover would do a lot of the legwork for me. Unfortunately, none took the bite, so I scrambled for some last minute ones, and since only one person had read the novel at that point, I got Kyle Muntz to blurb me. Then Berit Ellingsen was kind enough to make the time to read and say awesome things.
Noir: A Love Story is the one that I've done right, I think. Because of the way Twilight of the Wolves has struggled to find its audience, and because I had its success too tied to my emotions, I decided to go in a more personal way with Noir. It sort of still crushes me that Twilight of the Wolves hasn't found its audience, but I'm more hopeful with Noir. I sought out a few different writers and I chose them for specific reasons. Tim Horvath because I wish I could write as intelligently as him. Jac Jemc because My Only Wide is haunting in all the ways I hope Noir is. Matt Bell because we're both writing a sort of fantastic or mythological modern day. And then Steve Erickson because he's my hero. I honestly consider him the greatest living american novelist, and have ever since I first burnt through all his novels. I couldn't stop reading them, so I read them twice. He's a genius in all the ways I hope to some day be, and I sent him my novel, not really expecting anything, but because I needed him to read it. If he liked it even a fraction of how I love his novels, that would make it all worthwhile. Every bad review would roll off me because I'd know Erickson digs it. I mean, he's the whole reason I wrote a novel at all. He's the reason I chose to take writing seriously. He showed me that I could write the things I want to write how I want to write them. I can be different in all the strange ways I am different. I can be a sentimental surrealist and find beauty there. More than that, his novels feel so close to my heart. I imagine we share many of the same obsessions, with film being the most obvious. And I wanted this novel, specifically, to have his name attached to it. I don't think it's similar to what he's written, but it's the novel of mine that's closest to my heart. Probably because it's my first.
And so I really can't express how amazing it was to receive this blurb from him:
In Noir, Rathke exposes the pale, sickly underbelly of a vibrant utopia for all to see. He unravels the quiet metaphysics of the detective thriller by letting all of the witnesses carry equal weight. Rathke has a faith in his reader that makes the experience of reading his work one full of extraordinary rewards and teeming satisfaction.
So that's how I went about seeking blurbs, and I think I finally figured out the right way to do it. To be honest, I wanted a blurb from Wong Kar Wai and Max Richter too, but I don't know if they'd be into that.
There are other things I should be sharing, since a lot's happened in the last month, but I just wanted to touch on this briefly because it really does make a lot of this feel worth it to me.
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Written by Darlyn Azlinda At Monday, September 15, 2014 1 bookish peeps...
Series: Beartooth, Montana #5
Author: BJ Daniels
Pages: 352
Rating: 3.5/5
Cover rating: 3.5/5
For U.S. marshal Rourke Kincaid, there's the law…and then there's his law. When the two don't agree, he always trusts his instincts. A killing spree has gripped the Northwest, showing a strange connection that only he sees, and now the old rules of justice no longer apply. Forced to turn rogue, he goes deep undercover to track his mysterious female suspect to a quiet, unassuming café in the wild, isolated mountains of Beartooth, Montana.
But encountering Callie Westfield complicates his mission in ways he never expected. As suspicious as she seems, her fragile beauty and sexy charm get to Rourke. Then the gory crimes begin anew. With his heart suddenly at war with his instincts, he has only two options. Either turn Callie over to the law, or put everything—including his badge and his life—on the line to protect her.
My 2 Cents:
I have read her Atonement novel and really enjoy her book. And with Mercy I think it was enjoyable as well. When it is a romance, I expected romance in it. And the relation between Rourke and Callie is sweet and I think I liked all the scenes which gave me some time that made me hold my breath and I felt like my cheeks burning and red! The misunderstanding between Rourke as he suspected Callie as the serial killer somewhat gave a perspective that he had to put aside his feeling and focus to his job. He is attracted to Callie making his job much harder. But Callie sure has her own charm as well. There are so many twists and turns in this book. It's too complicated to explain but it's a fantastic book and will keep you turning pages faster than you can expect. All in all I think this book is a worth reading for your bedtime reading or while having coffee during weekend breakfast. Enjoy!
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dash of peril by lori foster
Written by Darlyn Azlinda At Friday, April 25, 2014 0 bookish peeps...
Series: Love Undercover #4
Author: Lori Foster
Pages: 480
Rating: 4/5
Cover rating: 4/5
A no-nonsense female cop reluctantly teams up with the one man who makes her lose control in a deliciously sensual new novel from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster.
To bring down a sleazy abduction ring, Lieutenant Margaret "Margo" Peterson has set herself up as bait. But recruiting Dashiel Riske as her unofficial partner is a whole other kind of danger. Dash is 6'4" of laid-back masculine charm, a man who loves life—and women—to the limit. Until Margo is threatened, and he reveals a dark side that may just match her own.
Beneath Margo's tough facade is a slow-burning sexiness that drives Dash crazy. The only way to finish this case is to work together side by side…skin to skin. And as their mission takes a lethal turn, he'll have to prove he's all the man she needs—in all the ways that matter
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Lori Foster has done it again. I like all her previous books in this series. The plot however seems a bit predictable to me. I can second guess what is coming. Maybe I should blame that I know her writing style already. Margo is a good character and she did her part quite well. On the other hand, Dash is killing me. At some points, I think he needs to stop being needy and naughty. Margo is a also a strong character and she is independent. What can I say? She's a lieutenant! But maybe there was some parts I like when I felt my cheek blushing when Dash kind of making Mango let go of her guard. They are perfect together. Although I have a complaint that the story in some way kind of not that real. It looks like it was just have to be made up to bring these two people together. But that was like a very very small complaint. but the best part I think would be when Foster brought up all previous characters in this book. So that every time I read about it, it would remind me of good stories about them in previous series. I think, this book is totally good, a really good story for your leisure read.
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the collectors of dying breaths by m.j. rose
Written by Darlyn Azlinda At Tuesday, April 15, 2014 0 bookish peeps...
Author: M.J. Rose
Pages: 384
Rating: 3/5
Cover rating: 4.5/5
Summary:A lush and imaginative novel that crisscrosses time as a perfumer and a mythologist search for the fine line between potion and poison, poison and passion…and past and present.
Florence, Italy—1533: An orphan named René le Florentin is plucked from poverty to become Catherine de Medici's perfumer. Traveling with the young duchessina from Italy to France, René brings with him a cache of secret documents from the monastery where he was trained: recipes for exotic fragrances and potent medicines—and a formula for an alchemic process said to have the potential to reanimate the dead. In France, René becomes not only the greatest perfumer in the country but the most dangerous, creating deadly poisons for his Queen to use against her rivals. But while mixing herbs and essences under the light of flickering candles, Rene doesn't begin to imagine the tragic and personal consequences for which his lethal potions will be responsible.
Paris, France—The Present: A renowned mythologist, Jac L'Etoile, is trying to recover from personal heartache by throwing herself into her work, learns of the 16th century perfumer who may have been working on an elixir that would unlock the secret to immortality. She becomes obsessed with René le Florentin's work—particularly when she discovers the dying breathes he had collected during his lifetime. Jac's efforts put her in the path of her estranged lover, Griffin North, a linguist who has already begun translating René le Florentin's mysterious formula. Together they confront an eccentric heiress in possession of a world-class art collection. A woman who has her own dark purpose for the elixir… a purpose for which she believes the ends will justify her deadly means. This mesmerizing gothic tale of passion and obsession crisscrosses time, zigzagging from the violent days of Catherine de Medici's court to twenty-first century France. Fiery and lush, set against deep, wild forests and dimly lit chateaus, The Collector of Dying Breaths illuminates the true path to immortality: the legacies we leave behind.
My 2 Cents:
Frankly speaking, it took me quite some time to finish the book. I think the story is like being dragged a bit. Or maybe I just didn't find enough interest in it to enjoy it. It lacked the suspense and a solid story that I like and left some holes that bothered me. The characters quite shallow, not well-developed or just awkward. Description of science, theories sometime quite extravagant for me, as well architecture and surroundings, the general story line tended toward a weak excuse to write a weird and quite awkward romance novel. Perfume making is quite weird with manipulating body perfumes and there was a lot of incidents quite interesting but I cant really connected to it, just saying that awkward sex scenes and all. But I have to admit that my enjoyment reading the book is because how amazing things that so awkward can be very interesting to other people.
For me, this book is suitable for person who love thrills, mystique and sex with extra punch of chills.
About the AuthorM.J. Rose is the international bestselling author of fourteen novels and two nonfiction books. She is a founding board member of International Thriller Writers and founded the first marketing company for authors: AuthorBuzz.com. Rose lives in Connecticut with composer Doug Scofield, and their very spoiled dog, Winka. To learn more about M.J. Rose and her work, visit her website at: www.mjrose.com.
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Updated: 11/15/2008 - Sunday's game between Green Bay and Chicago will be an opportunity for Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers to get back on the hot streak he was riding early in the season.
Updated: 11/15/2008 - When Minnesota visits Wisconsin tomorrow, it will be the 118th meeting for Paul Bunyan's Axe.
Posted: 11/14/2008 - Quarterback Kyle Orton was listed as probable for the Chicago Bears' game at Green Bay on Sunday.
Posted: 11/14/2008 - The New York Jets stand alone atop the tight AFC East standings, barely.
Posted: 11/13/2008 - Officially it's a tie, but the result of Thursday's opening-round game of the Big Ten Men's Soccer Championship certainly left the Wisconsin men's soccer team at a loss.
Posted: 11/13/2008 - Aaron Rodgers participated in a full practice today, another sign that the sprained right shoulder he has been nursing for nearly two months is improving
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