The K-Tel Knitter!
This is really just for Jean and Leslie, and maybe Brill. But I bet they will love it.
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The Death of Newspapers, Cont.
Today on our flight home from Denver, our 18-month-old daughter saw a woman reading a newspaper. She said, “Book.” My wife corrected her and said, “That’s a newspaper. That woman is reading a...
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Comic-Con: The Postmortem
Geeked out all over the shoes of Stan Lee, Paul Levitz, Mark Waid, Scott Kurtz, Kevin Church, David Malki, Charlaine Harris, and Joe R. Lansdale. They were all cool about it. Someone got stabbed...
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Field Notes on Literary Predators, and more.
*** I admit, I am skeeved out by Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs in just the same way as Choire Sicha describes in this post from The Awl. Those guys were all the worst. Setting aside the drugs...
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Under Construction
My wife and child are out of town while we’re having some work done on the house. I imagined I’d become a dynamo of productivity, knocking off 20-page days on the new novel and reading manuscripts and...
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I Am Not At Comic-Con
Right now, at this moment, there are bins of half-price trade paperbacks going unfondled by me. There are lines of people waiting for hours for the chance to see movie trailers a month before everyone...
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The Cremains of the Day
There is a company that will turn your cremated remains into vinyl LPs. That’s an especially strange and sobering thought for a Friday morning, so let’s move onto the shameless self-promotion before we...
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