Author Archives: Gareth Branwyn

Borg Like Me at Curator’s Office

On Thursday, May 15th, I did a reading of Borg Like Me at Curator’s Office @ Studio 1469. It was a near-perfect night and all of the attendees were so enthusiastic and supportive. I read my essay “Tears in the Rain” and excerpts from “The Lemon Song,” “The Internet is Punk Rock!,” and “Mein Führer,Continue reading “Borg Like Me at Curator’s Office”

My BEE Review on WINK

My latest WINK review, of Rose-Lynn Fisher’s amazing BEE, is live. Work on BEE, the handsome and inspiring book by artist and photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher, began the first time she peered at the magnified image of a bee’s eye and realized that its 6,900 hexagonal lenses looked shockingly similar to a honeycomb. Was this aContinue reading “My BEE Review on WINK”

Come to My Reading THIS Thursday!

From the Curator’s Office Press Release:   EAST COAST PREMIERE BOOK READING OF BORG LIKE ME: & Other Tales of Art, Eros and Embedded Systems by GARETH BRANWYN in conjunction with the JONATHAN MONAGHAN: ALIEN FANFARE exhibition PART OF DC’S FORWARD FEST http://www.forwarddc.com C U R A T O R ‘ S O F FContinue reading “Come to My Reading THIS Thursday!”

“Tears in the Rain” Chapbook is Here!

Hot off the presses! My latest chapbook, “Tears in the Rain,” was just delivered from the printers. It looks even lovelier than I imagined. I’m so happy with it. Available to order now. The deal is the same as my “Sucks-Less Writing” guide: $6 US/CND, $9 rest of world. Send a payment to garethbranwyn@mac.com (whichContinue reading ““Tears in the Rain” Chapbook is Here!”

“Big Questions” – An exquisite literary feast that reads like a literal dream

My review of Anders Nilsen’s epic-scaled postmodern comic fable, Big Questions, is up on WINK: The day my mail carrier plopped a review copy of this hefty, gorgeous tome inside my screen door (I have an uncanny ability to discern this faint but happy sound from anywhere in the house), I immediately cracked it openContinue reading ““Big Questions” – An exquisite literary feast that reads like a literal dream”

My Annual Parade o’ Peeps

I miss many things about being the Editorial Director for Maker Media. One of these would be the annual Peeps round-up I did on the MAKE website every year. No, seriously. I have something of an unhealthy fascination with these unholy food-colored, sugar-coated marshmallow death wads. And by the number of bizarre things that peopleContinue reading “My Annual Parade o’ Peeps”

My First Wink Books Review!

Woo-hoo! My first WINK review is live. So thrilled to be involved in this project. For my first book, I reviewed the amazing Cartographies of Time, by Anthony Grafton and Daniel Rosenberg: Cartographies of Time is literally groovy. As you hold it in your hands, the horizontal corrugations in the cover boards constantly and literallyContinue reading “My First Wink Books Review!”

The “Jargon Watch” Terms That Stuck with Me

For Borg Like Me, I thought it would be fun to look through the entire corpus of my 12 years of editing Wired’s “Jargon Watch” column and identify the terms that actually become a part of my everyday vocabulary. Here are 23 terms that I still use on a fairly regular basis. Backgrounding: The practiceContinue reading “The “Jargon Watch” Terms That Stuck with Me”

What Others Are Saying About “Gareth’s Tips on Sucks-Less Writing”

“…[L]oaded with excellent advice for writers. I’ve learned a great deal about writing and editing from Gareth. He’s a terrific writer and a terrific teacher.” – Mark Frauenfelder, Boing Boing “…[A] handy guide for writers of all kinds… There is a lot of advice floating around…Gareth’s Tips brings together some of the best.” – RoyContinue reading “What Others Are Saying About “Gareth’s Tips on Sucks-Less Writing””