Author Archives: JE

1. In this week’s Blog Gate episode I commit career suicide. Don’t miss! 2. A bunch of plaster images of theatrical masks have been unearthed from Pompeii. I particularly like this one, which looks a lot like Hirschfeld’s caricatures of … Continue reading →

1. Hemingway’s Moveable Feast—“restored” or Bowdlerized? (at the NYT–registration may be required). 2. NESFA has scheduled a collection of John Bellairs’ fantasies—The Face in the Frost, an unfinished sequel and some shorter humorous stuff, most of which I’ve never seen. … Continue reading →

Steven Beebe (a prof at Texas State University in San Marcos) has discovered a manuscript by C.S. Lewis in the Bodleian Library. Sadly, it doesn’t seem to be a complete version of After Ten Years (which I’m pretty sure would … Continue reading →

I dreamed the disembodied heads of Rupert Murdoch and Sumner Redstone were fluttering around on cartoony batwings in a town in the Old West, making snide comments to each other and ineffectually trying to do good deeds. I know that … Continue reading →

1. Wednesday has drifted away into the Pacific and I can’t even pretend to myself that I’m on time… but nonetheless, this week’s Blog Gate gate post by the oversigned is now up. It’s a longish and incoherent review of … Continue reading →

It’s practically Wednesday in France by now, but all the same: Happy Bastille Day! The lyrics of the French national anthem are a little more sinister than “The Star-Spangled Banner”, but the music’s better so it balances out. “Do you … Continue reading →

1. An interesting thing from Fred Pohl’s The Way the Future Blogs: Gaia, it seems, is dead. Long live Medea. The only thing that bothered me about it was that FP seemed to have Medea mixed up with Procne (and … Continue reading →

I rose above inertia today and managed to update my website to indicate, oh, that I had actually published a novel and stuff. I added links to the “Online Fiction” page for the two Morlock stories that went up (a … Continue reading →

I took last week off, for sheer laziness patriotic reasons, but my Blog Gate post for this week is at last up. It’s about Planet Stories reissue of Henry Kuttner’s Robots Have No Tails, but you probably vastened that already.

1. I don’t want you guys to think I’m the clumsiest biker in the world. But I did take another tumble the other day. The thing is, my newish bike has much tighter brakes than the throwaways I’ve been riding … Continue reading →