You know the difference between plain old “sci-fi” and “hard science fiction”? One’s boring. Nah. I’m just joking. The…
How I Wrote Certain of My Books
[In which I elaborate on an earlier post, “Slow Writing?“] In thinking about my earlier contention that writing ought to…
Translating the Uncanny Valley
Terrific interview between Mark Polizzotti and Mark Ford about (re)translating Raymond Roussel’s Impressions of Africa and New Impressions…
Epiphanic Zinger
[Being a review of Krystal Languell’s Call the Catastrophists*] Personal anecdote followed by utterly shallow pop-culture reference. Sweeping claim…
Slow Writing?
Would that there were no other kind. Sara Levine, author of the fantastic Treasure Island!!!, was interviewed in the…
I Can Read for Miles and Miles: Field Report from the Moby-Dick Marathon
Last weekend I went to the Moby-Dick marathon, an annual event in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where much of the landlubbing…
The North American Innovation Crash of 1993
The Ombudsman of the Washington Post has this to say about “innovation”: “I’m wondering, and readers are too, whether…
A Year of Reading
I read 203 books in 2011, or, on average, a little more than one book every two days. You…
Dalkey Archive Press
Until I make my pilgrimage to Champaign, this realtor-walkthrough video of Dalkey Archive’s warehouse (squired by founder John O’Brien,…
That Entrepreneurial Spirit
[Video shamelessly stolen from Shane Jones’s Facebook feed] Of course sometimes the hippie with his feet up on the desk…