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If I had picked a Dunsany novel likely to be adapted as a movie, My Talks with Dean Spanley wouldn’t have been it. But this does look like it might be a lot of fun. They’re certainly working with a … Continue reading →

1. Ho ho ho ho Mr Vorkos you’re going to be Vorkos-again! And again and again, we hope. 2. More news on Berlusconi’s shady dealings about hideous decrepit old bodies–not his own this time, though (thank God). The news report … Continue reading →

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 →