Brian Keene scoops Publishers Weekly
Don D’Auria, the editor who created Leisure’s venerable horror line and oversaw the Western and Thriller lines, and editorial director Leah Hultenschmidt have both been let go as part of a staff...
View ArticleWork of Art: Coda
And the prize?Abdi's show is apparently displayed in a cupboard-sized gallery next to the museum's gift store.This space is called the Projects Gallery and is on the fifth floor. When I was a kid and...
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H.P. Lovecraft, Happy 120th Birthday Party Dude
On the life of a New York literary bohemian:After dinner we walked down to the Brooklyn Heights section to call on his friend Hart Crane in Columbia Heights, with whom he had stopped till he moved up...
View ArticleOh, O Oh (Uh-Oh)
So I haven't seen O in a couple of weeks. She was here while I was in New York, and she left the morning of the thirteenth on a hiking trip; I returned that evening. She was to be back...
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Mamas...
Don't let your babies grow up to be Heinlein women. Start them off right with a healthy dose ofRocket Girls!My advanced copies just came in from the printer. We're on track for bookstores and amazon...
View ArticleAlso, if you happened to disagree with the Heinlein remarks on Tor.com
it's because you're terrified of thinking and are probably just an American who has never left the country and speaks no other language.
View ArticleAll fat milk
I usually buy skim milk from Straus, which is tasty and delicious. It was also on sale and thus when I got to the store late tonight, sold out. So I bought reduced fat and just now when I poured some...
View ArticleOne more "Heinlein Woman"
I forgot about this until through a chain of strange associations I found myself checking the essay collection Skin for something else. You know who credits Heinlein (and also Joanna Russ and Ted...
View ArticleBradbury at 90
Well, today's the day—the old man in 90. If you were wondering why he kept popping up in newspapers under headlines other than "RAY BRADBURY, AUTHOR OF BOOKS YOU READ IN SCHOOL, DEAD AT 89" this...
View ArticleWhy I'm not yet reading The Girl_____ books
I have no objection in principle to whatever the Big Book of the year is—I've read a few and sometimes liked them very much (e.g., The Lovely Bones). And those The Girl crime novels are up my alley:...
View Article'All y'all dumb motherfuckers don’t even know my opinion on shit'"
A couple notes:One reason I was wary of the Larssons is that there are four words I absolutely cannot stand when I see them in a crime novel. I stop reading right then and there, and these words appear...
View ArticleMark Williams again
Remember that Tea Party guy who wrote that letter in the voice of voice of black people, lamenting the end of slavery?Now he's calling Jewish elected officials Politically correct Judenrats. (Which...
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Say Hello To My Little Friend
His name is Chauncey. And over at the Florida Center of the Literary Arts, Chauncey Mabe puts some ladies in their place:Why is that writers of commercial fiction cannot be satisfied with popularity...
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World Fantasy award nominees
Here's the list.Even as Ghibli's English-language prose editor, I can't claim to speak for the Old Man, but let me be the first to sayPONYO IS COMING FOR HER BIG UGLY LOVECRAFT HEAD!See, I bet nobody...
View ArticleAdvice
Want some advice? I'll post the answers to the questions and concerns—which nobody can see but me—in subsequent posts.View Poll: Advice
View ArticleFirst set of answers
I won't even list the questions, but the answers themselves will include enough of the question for context.1. Chopin is sad because he is mortal.2. If the small press is something you feel the need to...
View ArticleNext ten
Who can it be? Anyone within arm's reach of the door, of course!The only thing to do in Fresno is leave Fresno.It's going to get bad: L-shaped recession +bailouts aimed solely to (re)fill the coffers...
View ArticleAaand the final five
Some of these drift into questions about me rather than advice, but here we go:I left because of the central absurdity of the organization: all its leaders were either upper middle class or the lower...
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Misreading Signs
Today I went with some friends to Children's Fairyland, a sixty-year-old amusement park with some baby rides and little things to climb around on and a handful of animals. A nice low-key thing for tiny...
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