Christopher Barzak

Month: October 2008

  • Starred review in Booklist

    First starred review ever. Happy!

  • Back in the day

    I’ve been following this fascinating conversation about blogging in the comments thread of a post on my fabulous friend Gwenda Bond’s blog, Shaken and Stirred.  It particularly has to do with authors blogging.  Some authors have dipped into the conversation, and it seems different people blog for different reasons, which is obvious, of course.  Some…

  • Another try

  • That’s the dream, right?

    I laughed so hard I nearly cried. No, I did cry. I cried tears of…painful truth. And then I laughed some more. Link via Barth.

  • Doing the math

    Do you get sick and tired of hearing how Republicans apparently are better with the economy, with money, than Democrats, and how Democrats are perceived to be “spend, spend, spend”?  Well, if so, you need to read the fabulous Scott Westerfeld’s (author of the Uglies series) blog post “Do the Math” on the website YA…

  • Small changes

    Some actual work to this site got done this weekend, partly due to the fact that the Toshiba laptop I’d been working on for four years finally went to laptop heaven, and I finally went out immediately after and bought myself the MacBook I’d been wanting to get for a while now.  So in the…

  • Officially done

    After watching tonight’s debate, I am officially done with the political race.  I don’t feel like I’m getting any more information from either candidate.  At this point, I just hear the same catch phrases over and over.  And I’m discouraged by their choices to continue limiting the form of the debates.  First, McCain’s campaign negotiates…

  • Welcome to America

    With a cold rain falling, the truck bangs along a gray road past weather-beaten houses raised on stilts. A few years ago, two-thirds of the village was finally connected to water and sewer lines; this is the one-third still waiting. Many residents, including Mr. Snyder, bathe with water retrieved from the Kuskokwim River and use…

  • Big and small

    Steven Millhauser, both novelist and short story writer extraordinaire, explains the differences between the novel and the short story, and what they really want to do for and to us: The short story — how modest in bearing! How unassuming in manner! It sits there quietly, eyes lowered, almost as if trying not to be…

  • Monsters are pretty too

    Two recommendations in one day! Today is the release of the fabulous (in all senses of that word) Kelly Link’s new collection, Pretty Monsters. You can read all about it (and some of the stories, too) by visiting the book’s website. And you can then go buy the book itself by going here or here…