R.I.P., Thomas M. Disch
I imagine most of you who would want to know already know by now that Thomas M. Disch committed suicide...
Archive for Writers
Nancy Pearl interviews William Gibson tomorrow night in Seattle
As a benefit for Clarion West's 25th anniversary, Nancy Pearl ("Seattle's own rock star librarian" and the only librarian with...
Litquake’s Lit Crawl tonight in San Francisco
I didn't notice that this week has been San Francisco's Litquake literary festival. Most of it is over by now,...
Move Under Ground for free!
In honor of Nick M's birthday (happy birthday, Nick!), I'm finally getting around to mentioning that Nick has provided his...
Followup congratulations
Last night I posted a cryptic congratulatory note about an unnamed writer friend; turns out that if only I'd waited...
Borderlands this weekend
Reminder about two events this weekend at Borderlands Books in San Francisco: Saturday, November 11, 3:00 p.m.: Ellen Klages, reading...
R.I.P., Jack Williamson
To quote Locus Online: "SF Grand Master Jack Williamson, born 1908, died this afternoon at his home in Portales, New...
Sheree Thomas on Octavia Butler tribute at NYPL
And speaking of events at libraries, Sheree Thomas recently posted about the tribute to Octavia E. Butler that was held...
Opportunity for self-promotion
I was in a bookstore the other evening; bought a recently published first novel by someone who I think is...
R.I.P., Andre Norton
Science fiction writer Andre Norton died this morning. I've been meaning to post for the past couple weeks mentioning that...
Grammarian
I got a few birthday presents and some nice phone calls and emails and journal comments; thank you all! I...
Leonard I
I said, "They ended up watching Get Shorty. I've seen it twice, but I stayed for the opening. Ten minutes,...