Category: Literature
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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…
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Q&A
I’ve been spending the past week doing Q&A at the Endicott Mythic Reader’s Group on Goodreads, and there have been some really thoughtful questions. One came in today, to which I just responded. And I’ve decided to post the question and my response here, too. Q: Ghosts and eldritch kids in and of themselves aren’t…
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Goodreads/Endicott Q&A
If you’re a member of Goodreads (which is a truly awesome social networking service for book lovers), and also a member of the group (on Goodreads) called Endicott Mythic Fiction (an incarnation of the community grown by the amazing Terri Windling and many other amazing writers, artists, musicians, etc, at the Endicott Studio and the…
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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…
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The Big Read
A great interview with Dana Goia about Ursula LeGuin (as well as Ray Bradbury, and other spec fic related matters) at the Clarion blog. He’s smart about the hierarchical distinctions made between the literature of romance (no, not Danielle Steel type romance) and social and psychological realism within the academic community. Like him, I see…
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YSU-Ytown Reading Series
Just a brief announcement that I, along with my assistant Mona Lisi (yes, it’s her real name, and it’s awesome, isn’t it?), have been doing the work to start promoting awareness of a new YSU-Ytown Reading Series, a new monthly event (during the college school year) I’ve created to bridge university activities with the community…
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Who wants to read about that?
Colleen Mondor is one of my favorite bloggers on YA literature, as well as a variety of other sorts of topics. Here she is talking about the need for more YA literature (and I add to this the need for any sort of literature) to consider this incredibly ignored and swept-under-the-rug (at least here in…
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Gettin ready to rock
Lately I have been in busy hell. Forgive me if I owe you an email. Right now, getting revved up to go to Wiscon at the end of this week. Karaoke Party on Friday night. Be there or be square, as they say in Paris, or in the 1950s. Also this Wiscon Alan, Kristin and…