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Thing 1. Terrible Yellow Eyes: a really interesting site where a guy named Cory Godbey has undertaken to post a piece of art every week inspired by Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. My favorites so far are the “Water … Continue reading →

“KHA-A-A-A-A-A-A-AN!”

Moorcock and Morlock, together again for the first time. If the reader imagines me as more than a little freaked out, the reader… must be reading my mind! [incoherent sounds of freaking out follow; transcript breaks off]

My Blog Gate post of the week is up… really just a postlet about the “GRRM is not your bitch” thing Neil Gaiman wrote. Which is being applauded around the internet as if it were a nifty from the works … Continue reading →

1. Anna Katherine (one half of whom is alg) writes about systems of magic or the lack thereof in an aptly titled post “rules? in a knife fight?”. This so brilliantly expressed my own feelings that I was left saying, … Continue reading →

There’s a judicious review-article (of what seems to be a problematic book) up at The Nation website: Jordan Davis on Laura Miller’s book about the Narnia series. I thought it was pretty impressive, and had never heard of Davis before, … Continue reading →

My Blog Gate post for the week is up, this one a late-breaking review of a movie you may have already heard a little about. Unless that’s actually last week’s post, which I unaccountably skipped. Actually, I could account for … Continue reading →

Everyone knows by know who won the Nebulas so it would be otiose to post a link here. I was disappointed that McDonald’s wonderful Brasyl didn’t win in the novel category, but Le Guin’s Powers is a superb book, doubtless … Continue reading →

HarperStudio is publishing a collection of hitherto uncollected (mostly, I understand, unpublished) works by Twain and, to celebrate, they and the New Yorker‘s BookBench are giving away a free audiobook version read by John Lithgow, at least for a week … Continue reading →

1. My Blog Gate post of the week is up, this one a penitential review of two volumes from the NESFA’s Choice series. 2. I’m late for something else. 3. The second item could be appended to almost any communication … Continue reading →