Picking up Sturgeon again
In 2001, I bought and read and enjoyed the first five volumes in North Atlantic Books's Complete Stories of Theodore...
My top ten single-author short sf collections
Back in 2010, John DeNardo of SF Signal was kind enough to invite me to participate in one of their...
R.I.P., Pete Seeger
I've been trying to figure out why Pete Seeger's death yesterday, at age 94, is hitting me so hard. Part...
Double rejection
Received two (friendly) rejections in the past 26 hours, for the only two stories I had out. I gotta say,...
Sturgeon on monogamy
Theodore Sturgeon's 1951 story “Rule of Three” (spoilers!) features two tripartite energy beings who embed themselves in six humans, and...
The romantic rogue
Any of you know when/where/how we started romanticizing rogues and other villains? There's this thread in at least the European...
More from _Happy All the Time_
Still enjoying Laurie Colwin's 1978 novel Happy All the Time. Here are a couple more bits worth snipping for my...
Conversational about kissing?
I've been doing some sorting and organizing and winnowing of books lately, and came across a book that I think...
Border searches still legal
A US judge has ruled (in agreement with various other court decisions and administrative rules) that it's still OK to...
Too-ticky on adventures and heroes
“Quite, quite,” she thought with a little sigh. “It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved....
Two views of sex
In 1990, poet Mark O'Brien (who had polio) published an essay titled “On Seeing a Sex Surrogate.” I just read...
Another Peter Capaldi connection to Dr. Who
I just came across an old blog entry in which I linked to the IMDB entry for a 24-minute 1995...