John Updike gave a sympathetic review to "The Confessions of Max Tivoli" in the New Yorker, and compared it to other novels using the aging-in-reverse device, all of them outside the science fiction tradition, I believe.
Inside the science fiction tradition, aging-in-reverse seems to be a rather frequently used device, going by the examples given in previous comments. Updike's review made me remember a Fritz Leiber story, in which the entire planet Earth aged in reverse, in rejection of mankind's invention of nuclear weapons. I thought it was rather eloquent. On the other hand, aging-in-reverse showed up on the old "Mork and Mindy" TV show, when Mork fathered a middle-aged man (played by Jonathan Winters) as a son. Maybe that's the sort of writing Christopher Farah was thinking about.
Yeah, I got one of the spams, too. It didn't take long to figure out it was some sort of spam. I thought at first it had reacted to one of my web-address typos, until I noticed that you really don't have a "www" on your address.
I live in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. What's all this about Kevin Drum and Divine? I don't hear them talking about it at Cafe Kopi.
I remember reading a collection of cartoons from the 1940s by the Boston Herald cartoonist Dahl, which had several references to the Watch and Ward Society. One of them showed a man walking into the Watch and Ward Society office and complaining that he had been misled. He had understood that only provocative cutting-edge books were banned in Boston. The Watch and Ward man was beaming with pride as the visitor talked up how much being banned in Boston could mean for a book. "But this book is tripe!", the complainer said, holding up the condemned volume. "How could you encourage me to read such trash?"
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