The Wikipedia entry for From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg is fairly scant, not even mentioning the film adaptation...but I think the fact that someone added the currency conversion data shows just how much Wikipedia can miss the true point of things...

Jamie Kincaid is a lively 9-year-old younger brother to ( Read more... )

The problem with Poetry (the magazine) is that I adore about one in ten to one in eight of the poems they run. Perhaps it's because I'm superficial and decadent and slanted and neurosthenic, but I'd rather paw through something I like half of then to go through an entire issue and find three poems I want to save forever and dozens I'm utterly ( Read more... )

...I heard you making patterns rhyme..."

I went to Park Slope in Brooklyn for about two hours for the Lovecraft Unbound reading.

Ellen Datlow posted pictures.

Michael Cisco, Brian Evenson, Caitlin R. Kiernan and Richard Bowes, hosted by Ellen.

It was a neat experience. I would've been fine with a four hour reading.

More pics that greygirlbeast and humglum took are here.

I ( Read more... )

"How much is it ( Read more... )

Hmm... I've done plenty of interviews from the opposite side and very few where someone else is trying to make me the subject.

I talk about why I hope the world ends.

I talk about books a lot (and a little about writing).

I discuss Top Chef and who would win the show Top Weird Fiction Writer.

It appears that I imply that I might've committed suicide ( Read more... )

Hint fiction?

I'm not familiar other than that it's impressive that this person named Robert Swartwood managed to get Norton to pony up enough of a budget that he can buy short fiction at a dollar a word and up... It's smart all around.

"Tentatively scheduled for the fall of 2010, W.W. Norton will publish an anthology of Hint Fiction. What is Hint ( Read more... )

Catching Up With Amber Benson

Geoffrey H. Goodwin

[interview about her recent novel]

http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=35381#more

Things I think I forgot to remember:

Interview with Ben Parzybok:
http://www.bookslut.com/features/2009_01_013995.php

Interview with Paul Tremblay:
http://www.bookslut.com/features/2009_04_014311.php

Interview with Jedidiah Berry:
http://mumpsimus.blogspot.com/2009/05/conversation-with-jedediah-berry.html

Prime's anthology, Phantom, which contains my ( Read more... )

Now the army plans to hire Mr. Schroeder again to write Zefra II, another sci-fi book about what Canadian soldiers may face in 2040, said Lt.-Col. Rostek, one of a small team of soldiers who advise the army about what may come to pass three decades from now.

Dear U.S. Government,

Could you do that too? Maybe stop killing non-rich, non-white, non- ( Read more... )

Since I'm seeing opposing points of view from people I respect, I figure I'll just rant a little in both directions. I meant to do a rant on how novelists with a book coming out should view bookstores, but that one has ballooned into an article. I swear I could go on about a stale cookie for seventy pages ( Read more... )