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Pick a position, find evidence.

Yesterday's shooting was an utter horror show. Naturally, this did not stop anyone from pushing forward with various claims and agendas and such, and one of the sad things about the discourse is that...

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Revelations revealed in the latest The Revelator!

As anyone at all tuned in to literary culture knows, The Revelator is the single most important journal of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. As such, they just launched a Lovecraft tribute...

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Tuesday quick notes

Would you like to read about a school shooting? Probably not. But Larry Nolen, a litblogger, did, and he had this to say about Bullettime: Bullettime happens to be one of those rare novels (another...

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Table of contents for The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013...

It's here.And also here:“Nahiku West” by Linda Nagata (Analog)“A Murmuration of Starlings” by Joe Pitkin (Analog)“The Black Feminist’s Guide to Science Fiction Film Editing” by Sandra McDonald...

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Five Books I Loved This Year: 2012

As always, these are the best books I've read since last year, not the best books I've read that were first published this year. These are in no particular order.Keep The Apidistra Flying by George...

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Thanks Google!

Why these ads INDEED, Google.Why these ads indeed.

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Last-Minute Shopping in New Hope, PA!

Are you in Bucks County, PA, and looking to do a little Christmas Eve shopping? Might I recommend Farley's Bookshop in New Hope, PA? (They also take orders online.)It's a very picturesque...

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Merry Christmas

Dr. Seuss goes darkwave. Merry Christmas.

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Christmas

No Christmas here. Because of some confusion with Wilkes University, the MFA residencies of which I'll no longer be attending, my travel plans were up in the air for a long time. Which meant me staying...

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Fine amazon.com, I'll post it here! A review of DON'T LET ME DIE IN A MOTEL 6

For whatever reason—procrastination!—I decided to write an amazon.com reader review of a self-published Kindle memoir I read on my phone. And for whatever reason—writers can't review books on amazon...

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ILA strike

I've been following the potential International Longshoremen's Association strike for a few weeks now. For personal reasons as well as political reasons. As many readers know, my father is a...

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ILA update

The bosses blinked. For now.Well, looks like my father can retire now, and Olivia won't be get to participate on a picket line. (My sister and I were going to surprise her by dragging her out to Red...

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2012

So, 2012 was not a great year. The biggest bad news, which I only alluded to earlier, was that Olivia became pregnant in the spring and suffered a miscarriage thirteen weeks later. A drag, and a...

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In 2013...

The Illuminati rules. Kanye's baby is only the beginning. 2013 will be the year of the secret society, the unseen hand, and the inexplicable event.

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An extremely short review of BLOODY FABULOUS

The January issue of Locus (not actually online) reviewed Bloody Fabulous, an anthology in which I have a story. Generally I'd rather not print a whole review of a book that isn't mine, but the whole...

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Copts, Ukranians, Serbs, Russians, Paleoimerologites...

Merry Christmas!

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The Big Click

The latest issue of The Big Click is now live. The Jan-Feb issue features work by Kit Reed, Barry Graham, and James Robert Smith.After we set up the book editions, we got a small piece from Tom...

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Hugo eligibility post

In recent years, the Hugo awards have transformed from largely awarding those authors Who Loved Fandom Best and showed in various ways (cons, fanzines, kissy-buttsy, etc.) to those authors with the...

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Remember the reason for the Hugo-award season

My Little PonyJesus Is Magic

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How Should A Pony Be?

This is the episode of My Little Pony we should all get behind for the Hugos.42 16 "Read It and Weep" James Wootton Cindy Morrow February 4, 2012Rainbow Dash ends up in the hospital with a broken wing....

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