Christopher Barzak

Month: December 2008

  • 2009

    Despite whatever anyone says, you are going to be wonderful.  In the literal sense of the word. No justification or reasons are necessary. Just know it.

  • Books in recession

    Reading this article in the NYT about the woes of the book publishing industry not being able to make as much money off of their product due to the rise of online used booksellers seems very similar to what happened in the music industry when Napster arrived and people started sharing music instead of buying…

  • On Reading

    I spent today on a date with my laptop that lasted hours and hours, ranging from the home writing room, living room, bedroom, to the coffee shop and a restaurant downtown, then back again.  Reading stories for Interfictions 2.0 is what I’ve been doing, really.  It’s a really pleasurable yet difficult task.  There are all…

  • Another review

    Missed this one while I was traveling last week.  Another review of The Love We Share Without Knowing, this time from Paul DiFilippo over at SciFiWeekly: Fox maidens, mystical blindness and a host of other Asian supernatural oddities as seen through Western eyes.  This sophomore offering from the author of the well-received One for Sorrow (2007) is a…

  • Pics from KGB

    Okay, so here’s a little break into the interlude I’d claimed would be the standard over the holidays.  Ellen Datlow put up photos from the evening I read with Alaya Dawn Johnson at the KGB bar last week.  It was a packed house, a fun night, a great audience.  Here are several of my favorite…

  • Home again

    Finally. Farewell, NYC, for now!  The reading at KGB was lovely, the interview on Hour of the Wolf, always a pleasure, the karaoke a blast, the food always wonderful, the Daniel Radcliffe in Equus, interesting and riveting in an old-fashioned psychodrama sort of way (great set, for sure, and great horses). And Happy Holidays to…

  • Snowbound

    I was supposed to fly out of Newark, New Jersey this morning.  If you haven’t been paying attention to weather reports, the northeast is having a blizzardy time of it.  I got to the airport via train from Penn Station in NYC and made it all the way up to the check-in counter, plugging in…

  • Casting the pod

    Last night: karaoke with Meg McCarron plus sake = a bit of a hangover the next day, but a small price to pay for a good time. Today:  Bantam Books releases a podcast of me talking about The Love We Share Without Knowing and my time in Japan.  You can listen to it by clicking…

  • Renaming

    New York City is often referred to as the city that never sleeps. This is a radical misnomer. A more apt name for New York City, at least where I’m staying, on the corner of Bleecker and MacDougal, a hot spot for young twenty-somethings out for a weekend of carousing, is the city that never…

  • NY Report

    Am having a wonderful time in NYC. Just got back from an early morning radio show at WBAI and am going to crash for part of the morning. Later tonight, I’m going to see Daniel Radcliffe in Equus. Yes, that’s right, Harry Potter himself. The play is from the 70s, and I’ve never seen nor…