I enjoyed the IAFA Symposium in Orlando this weekend. It had been over two years since I attended a conference in person. It was great…
I want to write stories that I would enjoy reading.
I enjoyed the IAFA Symposium in Orlando this weekend. It had been over two years since I attended a conference in person. It was great…
Hmmmm. It’s not Wallander or The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo. What I learned from thinking about Katla: It’s not hard to come up with…
Finished my first re-read of Herbert’s “Dune” in decades, to prepare to see the motion picture in a few weeks. Sometimes when I read something…
I attended an on-line workshop last Saturday during which a writer used the Bob Dylan Ballad “Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts” to illustrate…
I finished a reread of “Nova”, a novel that I have considered one of my favorites since I read it in 1975 or 1976. I…
Finished “Dr. Zhivago” by Boris Pasternak, my second Big Russian Novel. It was banned for decades in the Soviet Union for its portrayal of the…