Mod-Blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... those video games that showed you how much armor you had left as a percentage bar," said John Wray, a TARDEC contractor. "That's exactly what we're working on here and more." Intelligent armor is based on piezoelectrics, or materials that generate a small voltage when bent. The reverse is also true: Apply a small voltage, and a piezoelectric material will bend...By...
Mindful Hack (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... Atmospheric Disturbances (Capgras syndrome again) by a medical school graduate, Rivka Galchen, and John Wray's Lowboy (paranoid schizophrenia). And these are just a selection of recently published titles in "literary fiction." There are also many recent genre novels, mostly thrillers, of amnesia, bipolar disorder, and multiple personality disorder. Lehrer is appropriately...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
This week PopMatters is exploring the music and pop culture phenomenon of the Beatles. Authors including Margaret Atwood, John Wray, Junot Diaz, and others talk to the Wall Street Journal about how to write a great novel. The New Yorker...
warrior ant press (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... one part Hollywood blockbuster. Settle down with a bowl of popcorn and enjoy the ride. Lowboy. John Wray. 2009, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. A lowboy, as presented here, is someone who hangs out and lives in the subway tunnels. This lowboy, manic with the implications of global warming, is on the verge of a weirdly comic and inventive nervous breakdown. Jump the turnstile and join...
Tongue Tied 3 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... the theatre - which receives a £100,000 Arts Council subsidy - for being oversensitive. John Wray, director of the show's production company AIR, said the theatrical convention of white actors painting their faces with boot polish or grease paint is a key part of Jolson's legacy, adding: 'It's a historical fact and not in any way derogatory.' The practice of blacking up survived...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... Mids., told Mr Baldwin that black makeup is ''inappropriate in a modern multicultural society''. John Wray, director of AIR productions who are putting on the show, said: ''It's a bit ridiculous, it's like having the Supremes and them all being white. ''It just that happens that it's an historical fact. It's not in any way derogatory. Many of the people involved in the show are black.''...
The Frontal Cortex (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
... Atmospheric Disturbances (Capgras syndrome again) by a medical school graduate, Rivka Galchen, and John Wray's Lowboy (paranoid schizophrenia). And these are just a selection of recently published titles in "literary fiction." There are also many recent genre novels, mostly thrillers, of amnesia, bipolar disorder, and multiple personality disorder. As young writers in Balzac...
Circle of 13 (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
... Atmospheric Disturbances (Capgras syndrome again) by a medical school graduate, Rivka Galchen, and John Wray's Lowboy (paranoid schizophrenia). And these are just a selection of recently published titles in “literary fiction.” There are also many recent genre novels, mostly thrillers, of amnesia, bipolar disorder, and multiple personality disorder. As young writers in Balzac walk...
Tomorrow Museum (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
... Atmospheric Disturbances (Capgras syndrome again) by a medical school graduate, Rivka Galchen, and John Wray’s Lowboy (paranoid schizophrenia). And these are just a selection of recently published titles in “literary fiction.” There are also many recent genre novels, mostly thrillers, of amnesia, bipolar disorder, and multiple personality disorder.” He thinks it shows “shift away...
the Richard Larson blog (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
... would drive me insane. It would be like an obsessive person at an asylum darning the same sock. -- John Wray, on the experience of writing Lowboy
