Month: December 2007

Auden on Criticism

From an excerpt in Harper’s, itself from The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955, edited by Edward Mendelson, being published next month: “Judging a work of art is virtually the same mental operation as judging human beings, and requires the same aptitudes: first, a real love of works of art, an inclination […]

Linkage, or What I’ve Been Up To and Other Stuff

First off, Amazon entries you might’ve missed… – First Second’s awesome taste in graphic novels – Short, candid interview with Steve Erikson – Great SF Adventure Fiction with Chris Roberson – Weird Tales: Storytellers Contest (with weird story from me and great quote from the creative director) – Audio exclusive from The Secret History of […]

Brushes With Television

Returning to the madness, in the past week the above video was almost taken by a national wacky videos show (kind of glad it wasn’t just because I fear they’re trawling for so much stuff because of the writer’s strike), and the email below was sent to me in all seriousness by a respected production […]

Thanks to Valente

Thanks soo much to Cat Valente for her excellent, excellent posts while guesting on this blog. I really enjoyed every single one of them. If you haven’t already, make sure to check out her latest books.

It’s the Economy, Stupid

Some of the more interesting conversations I end up having occur during our hellaciously long commute across the entire city of Cleveland in the evenings. I’ve usually been writing all day, and thus I, the fantasist, and my partner, the die-hard SF fan, get to squabbling about genre things fairly frequently. Thus was the case […]