Month: November 2007
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Locus Review of One for Sorrow
Gary Wolfe reviewed One for Sorrow in Locus this month. It was a feature review, and I loved reading what he made of the book. Okay, so I love reading and hearing what anyone thinks about the book, but this was yet another one of those detailed, thoughtful reviews that I enjoy so much, that…
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Just a little change
Since I’m rearranging stuff in my house, making it how I want to live in it for a while, I thought I’d make some changes on this website too. I think I like the look of this one for now, but leave the option open to change however many times I like in the future. …
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Way Cool Moments
The San Francisco Chronicle recently published their holiday gift-book recommendations, and on the sf list you will find Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff, along with Kage Baker’s The Sons of Heaven, Emma Bull’s Territory, Joe Hill’s 20th Century Ghosts, China Mieville’s Un Lun Dun, Naomi Novik’s Empire of Ivory, Patrick Rothfuss’ The Name of the…
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I love crazy things
A wonderfully ridiculously subtitled old Indian video (I hope it’s old). The subtitles aren’t a translation, but what the listener thinks the lyrics sound like to an English speaker’s ear. I laughed a lot. Hope you do too. (Thanks to Jason Lundberg for the link).
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SF Site Review
Paul Kincaid on One for Sorrow: Whether you read the ghost story as a metaphor for Adam’s psychological travails, or the upheavals in Adam’s family as a grim mirror for the haunting, this is a superbly structured, beautifully written coming of age story. It is, in its way, as powerful and affecting a debut as…
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The Literary Detective
Viriginie over at The Literary Detective wrote about One for Sorrow on her French blog last month, and in between then and now she interviewed me for a new series of author interviews that she would like to start. Here are the results of our interview across the ocean. She asked really great questions, and…
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Pics from the house
Here are a few pics of rooms that have been made livable and lovable in the new house. And the house also had its first house guests. The house loved them. More guests, please!
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I can has One for Sorrow
I cracked up last week when I got this in an email last week. Thanks, Cody (and Angela)!
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A blurb from Will
O excellent! I love Barzak better than figs. Which work of Shakespeare was the original quote from?