– Manuel Puig, thank you for agreeing to talk to me. – – Of course. What I do want to…
I am not a camera
I hate having my photograph taken. If I am in a group I am not one of those who pushes…
Learning to read Adam Roberts
Every critic has a blind spot, an author for whose work the general acclaim seems mystifying. Any critic worth their…
Save Our Libraries
I can’t remember the first time I used a library, but I was little and it was housed in a…
misCommunication
Some things about C:
Auster the sentimentalist
I can’t remember what it was that made me first pick up The New York Trilogy, but something about the…
The marquise with the lead pipe at five
I have come to the conclusion that we learn more, we appreciate more, from the books we disagree with. I…
High C
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but since Jac has brought up the upcoming book club discussion…
Well flabber my ghast!
I have just learned that my series of four posts on Big Other last summer, Blogging the Hugos: Decline, has…
When is the modern?
I am engaging (I think that is the right word, at least if you think in terms of a military…