What David Mitchell is up to in “The Bone Clocks”
This post about The Bone Clocks contains mild spoilers. When grappling with works of genre fiction, most mainstream literary critics...
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Speculative fiction: the superset of all possible literature
Genre writers must do everything mainstream writers do, and more.
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On two of my idols: Iain [M.] Banks
Amid the staggering news of other losses this week, I want to remember to say a few words about Iain...
The Quiet American: a cocktail
A couple of weeks ago, my friend Jeff Lang sent me a link to Studio 360's listener cocktail challenge—create a cocktail inspired by and named after a classic work of literature. I wanted...
Shaun of the dead of the dead
UPDATE! After this blog entry was written, I emailed the text of it to John Hodgman on a whim. A...
Tonight's reading, and more
I don't say enough here about Tuesday Funk, the reading series at Hopleaf that I co-produce and co-host...