Twice in recent days, I’ve posted stages in a developing idea about Dante’s Divine Comedy. The work is coming up…
Dante 2020-2: Nothing so Claustrophobic as a Castle
A couple of days back, I posted the first of my thoughts about Dante’s Divine Comedy. With the 700th anniversary…
Good Old NeonLeaks: Transparency in Politics and Literature
The WikiLeaks story is dramatic on so many levels, with a character at center stage, Julian Assange, worthy of Shakespeare:…
Only a Loose Stevens Connection
I’ll be the first to admit I’m not playing with a full deck—mine’s missing the eight of clubs and the…
Spawn of Stevens
A monster is known by its spawn. Or that’s one way we know a monster, at least, and few presences…
Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Part 1
When I set out to blog this year’s Hugo shortlisted novels, I imagined something conventional like a separate post on…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by D. A. Powell
“Mrs. Forrester chatted to Niel with her face turned toward him, holding her muff up to break the wind.” —from…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Ben Spivey
And when the pains finally grew sharp I thought that death should come like that—like childbirth, into the birth of…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Ted Pelton
“I had a drunk on like seven Swedes.” —Raymond Chandler Have been trying off and on for two weeks…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Lily Hoang
“A man went to knock at the king’s door and said, Give me a boat.” —from Jose Saramago’s Tale of…