Prologue: "I Didn't Mean To Do Any Harm"

...But that moment the little lady leaned forward into the moonlight, and Curdie caught a glimpse of her eyes, and all the laugh went out of him ( Read more... )

It may get longer and full of ObRefs and anecdotes like the outline of it is in my head. But at least it's down on digital paper and up for argument, unlike my attempt to address this exact same blogosphere event the first time it happened starting on the exact same blog which got to be pages and pages of incoherent free association and then got ( Read more... )

Via Powell's Review-a-day, I see that the WaPo is doing its best to uphold the status quo in re literature as well as everything else:
Despite his liking for fairy tale and fantasy, Salman Rushdie is usually, and rightly, perceived as a Serious Nobel Prize-Worthy Writer. So it may come as a surprise that he has produced a book that is the ( Read more... )

Okay, we had our fun as Ms. Le Guin deflated the Serious Literary Establishment in Monsters Vs Critics II, but this is seriously squicky and skeezy - way squickier imo than zombies, or cyborgs, or BEMS, and way skeezier than bimbos in bronze bikinis.

via coffeeandink, we hear an astonishing little rant on Why You Shouldn't Write The [XX] Other, from literary ( Read more... )