bricoleur

Stories like Meghan McCarron's "Tetris Dooms Itself" or Alice Sola Kim's "We Love Deena", that combine a lit-fic, post-Raymond Carver engagement with raw human feeling and a Dada bricoleur willingness to take from anywhere and work with anything, subgenre pissing matches be damned.

INTERVIEW: David Moles 2009

And so she proved, in small things at first, as translator, courier, embassy bricoleur - what you call jack-of-all-trades - and later as secret agent in the field ... and you know what that means.

Watershed 2010

Coupled with his genre breaking is the fact that Dick is a bricoleur, though this is not the word Lem uses, but it is very much what he is describing.

Stanislaw Lem’s “Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans” 2010

Stories like Meghan McCarron's "Tetris Dooms Itself" or Alice Sola Kim's "We Love Deena", that combine a lit-fic, post-Raymond Carver engagement with raw human feeling and a Dada bricoleur willingness to take from anywhere and work with anything, subgenre pissing matches be damned.

Keeping an Eye On... David Moles Patrick 2009

Bellow's criticism to Barthelme's face — "Do you really believe it's that hard for people to talk to each other?" — shows that an avant-garde literary mind emerging from an emotionally laconic Texan male society to direct an art museum and read books translated from German and French (a collage in human form, a bricoleur in cowboy boots) was bound to be at least occasionally misunderstood.

How He Wrote His Songs Moore, Lorrie 2009

For a bit of name dropping, I hung out with supaluv, shouldhave_said, and saw jaylake, tillyjane, maryrobinette, bricoleur, diannarodgers, deedop, and several other notables who may be on LJ.

November 19th, 2006 joshenglish 2006

I got to hang and talk with, including but not limited to apologies in advance to anyone I've forgotten in my slaphappy, slee-deprived state bricoleur, Chrissy and Spencer, eddygrrl, the fabulous Heather Lindsley, lisamantchev, and maryrobinette.

Cat Rambo catrambo 2007

So would that be called ‘la fissure du bricoleur’, then?

Tadpole talk 2007

Via John Palfrey by way of bricoleur. posted by nerdlaw. org at

nerdlaw.org 2003

And so she proved, in small things at first, as translator, courier, embassy bricoleur - what you call jack-of-all-trades - and later as secret agent in the field ... and you know what that means.

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999