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Handsome Devil
The anthology Handsome Devil requires a double picture burst of the book with my handsome devils!My name's on the cover! Yeah! I have a story in it, natch—"Please Do Me: An Oral History." I've been...
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After an absence of a couple of, uh, years, I am back at The Smart Set with a new essay: Don’t Let Harlan Ellison Hear This.In other news, the Under My Roof movie now has a Twitter account. This...
View ArticleWell, I got the Ellison phone calls...
Harlan Ellison called me this afternoon, and left a semi-jovial message on my voicemail taking issue with some turns of phrase and what he said was 26 errors of fact in my essay about his recent work....
View ArticleFull Babyism: songs to sing and play
Totally trolling the baby this morning with alternative lyrics to Do-Re-Mi:Do-the Way, to do all thingsRe—a deadly laser beamMi-that's you, when you talk to me發-that's something issuingSo-WHAT? when...
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The Last Weekend is up for pre-order
PS Publishing has put The Last Weekend, the cover of which I revealed a week or so ago, up for pre-order. Here's the page for the trade hardcover and here's the page for the more expensive signed...
View ArticleWednesday Quick Notes
A few years ago I published a crime story in the electronic anthology (doesn't that sound nicer than "e-book"?) West Coast Crime Wave, which I see is only a buck on Kindle today. (Or maybe it's been...
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We're taking over!
...said Stalin to Mercader with a wink, as he handed over the icepick.Justine Tunney just did an end run on @OWS. In a way, such things are inevitable given how most social media are structured, and...
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BURNING PARADISE by Robert Charles Wilson
I wanted to like Burning Paradise, and read it even though I was turned off right away. And even though I wrote a superior version of the same book, which was published in 2011 under the name...
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Thursday Quick Notes
I am interviewed on the 80th number of the Books and Booze podcast, which should be pretty funny as I rarely drink and thus am a total lightweight. Check it out. (I had better luck with the audio on...
View ArticleHappy Valentine's Day!
Roses are red Your lips are red The walls are red EVERYTHING RED
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THE BATTLE ROYALE SLAM BOOK: ESSAYS ON KOUSHUN TAKAMI'S CULT CLASSIC
My latest dayjob anthology, The Battle Royale Slam Book, is now available for pre-order. See?And now, the table of contents:IntroductionBlood in the Classroom, Blood on the Page: Will Battle Royale...
View ArticleHere's an extremely trivial problem...
Back when LiveJournal was popular, people used to read this blog. The height of LJ's success paralleled my "career"—that is, I was home, in front of my computer all the time, cranking out term papers...
View ArticleToday I am 42
First one to comment with a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy joke wins*!*A punch in the face.
View ArticleAnd now, the real reason for all those SFWA dust-ups.
The Nebula Award nominees.Whoever controls the organization, controls the awards! Imagine being a tedious old gasbag who spent decades pressing the flesh at conventions, who stayed up all night...
View ArticleAWP
Off to Seattle for the AWP conference. Last year, I livetweeted a bunch of nutty panels, but this year the programming is far more reasonable—by which I mean there didn't seem to be a panel on how...
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AWP
Back from AWP. Slammed, of course, and LJ is slow-loading today, I presume due to the crisis in Crimea. (Hint: if you were ever in favor of US invasions of Haiti, Afghanistan, or Iraq, try not to break...
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Wednesday Quick Notes
Oh boy, let's see!The latest issue of The Big Click is out. Rebecca Ore, and much much more. It's our second anniversary issue as well, so if you were waiting to see if we had staying before before...
View ArticleMFA vs NYC vs Sci-Fi*
So, MFA vs NYC is an interesting book. Sure to be a classic, using the traditional definition of the word classic: an inaccurate work that everyone cites, riffs on, and otherwise tangles with. We'll be...
View ArticleNo More Readings
Last month I saw Ian Rankin at a bookstore. I didn't spy on him; it was an event. Not a reading though—he doesn't do that. He just talked about his book, some other things that have happened to him...
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