This blog post is part of my ongoing “60 Books in 60 Days” encounter with the Penguin Great Ideas series. From mid-December to mid-February, I will read one book in the series each night and post a blog entry about it the next morning. For more on this beautifully designed series, visit Penguin’s page about […]
So here’s a photo of what I looked like after months and months of working on Finch, my new novel, and not leaving the house that much. Or shaving. Along with some of the books that I consulted while working on the novel (to greater and lesser extents). Compare/contrast that with how I looked at […]
Evil Monkey: Jeff! You’ve come back to the land of the living. Man, I forgot how ugly you are. Jeff: Same here.
Thanks again for being so receptive to the guest bloggers. I’ll resume posting tomorrow with my 60 Books in 60 Days feature, in which I read one of Penguin’s Great Ideas books each night and do a blog post about it the next morning. I’ll also be writing about the work of John Le Carre. […]
I just wanted to give a heart-felt thank you to Tempest and all of the other guest bloggers. It was really quite energizing and humbling to have them agree to guest blog, and also to learn so much from what they posted. Sometime in the next week, I will do a post linking back to […]
In the comments of yesterday’s post, Kelly Barnhnhill crystallized something that come across all the time but don’t always remember how to explain to people: …is it the veracity of the arguments themselves that you find “annoyingâ€, or, perhaps, is it just that you disagree with the politics? I think it happens a lot that […]
I don’t want to give the impression that all of the fiction I’ve read this year has irked me in some way. Indeed, I have read a lot of really wonderful stories and novels over the past twelve months — a lot of them from overseas publishers. I find it extremely sad-making that American readers […]
This past year I’ve read a lot more fiction than my usual yearly average. That’s a result of two things — the first being that I’m on an awards jury, the second being that I challenged myself to read more widely short fiction-wise. Having expanded my fiction horizons this year, I now have some broad […]
Though I have my issues with Steampunk-the-aesthetic-movement, I do love me some steampunk gadgets. I love anything with an awesome design. However, methinks that this steampunk modder is a bit out of his mind: Cool steampunk mouse… with actual mouse bones. Not even replicas. Actual. Bone. It’s not just gross, it also looks painful. To […]
A few years ago, during one of the wanks surrounding Publish America, I got into a heated discussion with a group of writer friends about the naiveté and ignorance many of the writers on the PA boards. They were of the opinion that those writers were all stupid jerks who were too stubborn to listen […]