Month: July 2009
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Reading at Thurber House
Last week was a big week for me. Three nice things happened. 1. It was my birthday. Fun times, growing old. 2. I got to reconnect with an old friend from college. Fun times, rehashing when I was a youngster. 3. I read at Thurber House, In Columbus, Ohio, where the writer Jamese Thurber is…
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The Beastly Bride
Taken from Jeff Ford’s blog, some information on a young adult anthology in which a story of mine will appear early in spring 2010. It looks like a great anthology for young readers. I’m happy to be included in it. “This came in the mail today from Sharyn November, an Advanced Uncorrected Proof of Ellen Datlow…
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The Dreamer
Okay, okay, I babble on about my home city–small, cranky and rusty as it is, I love it, as a person should love and care for anything they feel is theirs in some way, as a home is–but sometimes I fall silent about it on my blog for long periods because even I get sick…
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Dirda on classics and genre literature
Michael Dirda of the Washington Post delivers a great lecture at The Center for the Book in D.C., in which he discusses his new book which looks at 100 classic books of literature that aren’t your grandpa’s “classics”, which means books that a while back would have been ignored by elitists and classicists who categorically…
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Edmond Hamilton Day
People who think small towns are uncool are crazy. Kinsman, OH (shout out!) is proof of the opposite. They have Clarence Darrow Day, and now Edmond Hamilton Day. In the future, there should also be a Leigh Brackett Day, with The Empire Strikes Back on a big screen in the town square all day…
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Artscape Article
I did a phone interview with Columbus Alive this past Monday about me, my writing, and my upcoming reading at Thurber House next Wednesday (which you should come to if you can!). Here’s a link to the article. The writer/interviewer was very cool. She’d actually read a bunch of my stories and books (which isn’t…
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26 to 50
While I was in Pittsburgh, I received news from Japanese translator Yoshio Kobayashi, alerting me to a new website (in both English and Japanese), called 26 to 50. The site will host fiction, reviews, interviews, discussion, news, etc. about the field of fantastic literature. Right now the site has short interviews with Lucius Shepard, Tim…
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Next Week
If anyone out there will be nearby to Columbus next Wednesday on July 22nd, you should totally come out and see me read along with David Giffels and James J. Siegel at Thurber House’s literary picnic evening for emerging voices in Ohio writing. It’ll be fun, and the menu looks great. I’m still not sure…
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Away and all…
Yes, I’ve not been blogging for a while. I’ve been in Pittsburgh for the past week, taking a very cool Pittsburgh Field Seminar. The classes are every day, and long, but I’ve quickly gotten to know my way around the place because of all the traveling and touring we’re doing, and not just getting to…