About Fiona Maazel
Movable Snipe: What 3 Quarks Giveth, The Scanner Taketh Away
[Note: Movable Snipe is a week-long feature wherein two writers read and evaluate five blogs, sending each other one letter a day. This week's Snipers are Michael Helke and Fiona Maazel. Michael's first letter can be accessed here; Fiona's response … Read More
Hit and Run (Day Four)
My turn again. Guess your jams and jellies are just going to have to wait, Maaz. Word to the wise: all the world’s holy texts have some Get-Out-of-Jail-Free clause, which allows its users to commit the occasional murder. Okay, perhaps … Read More
Movable Snipe: Immaculate VD
[Note: Movable Snipe is a week-long feature wherein two writers read and evaluate five blogs, sending each other one letter a day. This week's Snipers are Michael Helke and Fiona Maazel. Michael's first letter can be accessed here; Fiona's response … Read More
Hit and Run (Day Three)
Day Three From: Fiona Maazel To: Michael Helke Subject: The Koran Endorses Bloodshed (And New Yorkers Love To Gab About It) Hey, Michael. You read the paper today? At Yaddo, there’s always much talk about which house gets the Times … Read More
Movable Snipe: The Koran Endorses Bloodshed (And New Yorkers Love To Gab About It)
[Note: Movable Snipe is a week-long feature wherein two writers read and evaluate five blogs, sending each other one letter a day. This week's Snipers are Michael Helke and Fiona Maazel. Michael's first letter can be accessed here; Fiona's response … Read More
Hit and Run (Day Two)
Day Two From: Michael Helke To: Fiona Maazel Subject: Focus-Grouped for Gerry Adams' Approval Fiona my Nona: Dear me! Did you get a chance to read that Anonymous response to our first post? Scribe tried to lay down the law … Read More
Movable Snipe: Anonymous Is Right, I Am Stupid
 [Note: Movable Snipe is a week-long feature wherein two writers read and evaluate five blogs, sending each other one letter a day. This week's Snipers are Michael Helke and Fiona Maazel. Michael's first letter can be accessed here; Fiona's response … Read More
Hit and Run
Movable Snipe is an exercise in high-intensity meta-blogging that will make old media curmudgeons like Nicholas Lehmann wake in cold sweats. Here's how it works. Two writers — snipers — are candy-led into their own epistolary playground for a week … Read More
Movable Snipe: How Many Rebounds Did Clive James Make This Year?
[Note: Movable Snipe is a week-long feature wherein two writers read and evaluate five blogs, sending each other one letter a day. This week's Snipers are Michael Helke and Fiona Maazel. Michael Helke's first letter can be accessed here.] Yo, … Read More
“I Was Baking Honey Buns When Your Letter Came”
Dear Executor of Rhetorical Strategies Designed to Exploit Feelings of Self-Hatred Native to a Whole Bunch of Lefty Jew Americans: Hi. I was reading The Rings of Saturn when your letter came in. Baking honey buns, too. So there was … Read More
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