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  • There are those who deny with enthusiasm the existence of a God and are happy in a hobby which they call the Mistakes of Moses.

    Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens 1905

  • Even so, Why We Make Mistakes is as sobering – and potentially helpful — as it is lively.

    2009 September 21 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • Even so, Why We Make Mistakes is as sobering – and potentially helpful — as it is lively.

    2009 September « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • Making Mistakes is undoubtedly the lighter of the two novels, but this is only relatively speaking, and as such it makes an ideal companion piece to After, picking up some of its themes, re-using some of its scenarios, but in completely different ways.

    New Josipovici « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • FREE FICTION: SF Signal reader Scott D. Parker's western short story "You Don't Get Three Mistakes" is up, and it's quite good.

    April 2009 2009

  • FREE FICTION: SF Signal reader Scott D. Parker's western short story "You Don't Get Three Mistakes" is up, and it's quite good.

    SF Tidbits for 4/27/09 2009

  • If you were watching last week's SAG awards, you may have noticed too, that when the Best Ensemble award was presented to the Boardwalk Empire group, a dozen or so New York actors stormed the stage but the actor playing Special Agent Nelson Van Alden was missing: Michael Shannon was back east playing a theater producer, Felix Artifex, in Craig Wright's masterfully written almost one-man tour de force called Mistakes Were Made.

    Regina Weinreich: Revolutions of the Mind: Three Sisters and Mistakes Were Made Regina Weinreich 2011

  • Heller mocks Ziegler, but it is a press secretary's imperative, the abdication of responsibility, that disfigures his own work—"Something Happened" might as easily have been titled "Mistakes Were Made," Ziegler's most memorable cop-out—and the consequence of this passivity is a sense of grievance.

    Major Minor Alec Solomita 2011

  • If you were watching last week's SAG awards, you may have noticed too, that when the Best Ensemble award was presented to the Boardwalk Empire group, a dozen or so New York actors stormed the stage but the actor playing Special Agent Nelson Van Alden was missing: Michael Shannon was back east playing a theater producer, Felix Artifex, in Craig Wright's masterfully written almost one-man tour de force called Mistakes Were Made.

    Regina Weinreich: Revolutions of the Mind: Three Sisters and Mistakes Were Made Regina Weinreich 2011

  • When I lived in Vancouver, I kept a little orange notebook called Mistakes where I wrote down what I saw or heard wrong.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Lemon Hound 2008

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