Christopher Barzak

Month: March 2009

  • Brooklyn Sighting

    A snapshot of the most recent book in the wilds of Brooklyn, of all places, sent to me by my friend Robert Levy.  That’s a nice wall of books. Thanks, Robert!

  • World SF

    Lavie Tidhar (one of the contributors to Interfictions 2) has started the World SF News Blog, which is dedicated to news and links about international science fiction, fantasy, horror and comics. If you’re at all interesting in these genres and their subgenres throughout the world, rather than in your own particular corner, you should visit here…

  • Touch

    Hey-ho.  I’m back from ICFA, the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, which is held every year around this time down in Orlando, Florida.  It’s one of my new regular conferences to attend now.  It’s a hybrid conference for both academics and creative writers, so you get both academic panels about the literature…

  • Contesting

    I received this email from Bookspot Central this evening.  If you’re interested in voting for my book, take a trip through the links and do so.  Thanks! “This is just a quick note to inform you that you have a book in our March Madness style book tournament over at Bookspot Central.  The Tournament takes place…

  • Cheap date

    I had two glasses of wine tonight and somehow ended up joining Twitter.  Back in the day, it was a lot more to drink and a lot more absurd and shocking outcomes.  This is how you know you’re now beginning to become a fossil.   But if you want to “follow” me, my Twitter name…

  • Dreaming backwards

    In another month and a half it will be three years since I returned home from Japan. Some days it feels as if I just got back.  I’m not sure of what that’s an indication, other than my life became the busiest it has ever been for the past couple of years, and perhaps that’s…

  • On failing to keep up with Racefail

    As I’ve not been reading blogs regularly over the past year of my new full time employment plus second-graduate-degree-taking schedule (I sometimes have very little time left in the day for eating and sleeping, it seems), I have remained ignorant of a great blogosphere debate that had been going on for what seems like it…

  • And another

    Another review I missed, this one from Karen Burnham over at SF Signal: Excerpt: The Love We Share Without Knowing is a beautiful and only lightly fantastic book. It follows the lives of different people in modern day Japan as they intersect with each other, often tangentially, sometimes meaningfully. It looks at friendship, love, and alienation.…

  • A review and an unintended twist

    Two things: A very cool review that I somehow missed, which appeared in The Pacifican, the newspaper for The University of the Pacific, out in Stockton, CA. Yo, Stockton! An excerpt: With lovely descriptions of Japan’s countryside and cities, this novel is rife with astute observations about people and the relationships they have with nature…

  • Oh, Iris…

    Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.   – Iris Murdoch Honestly, the only novel by Murdoch that I’ve read has been The Unicorn, which I remember liking, because it was all Gothic and philosophical, set in a big English manor somewhere in an English countryside, with strange characters who were…