When I finished Jo Walton’s Among Others this afternoon, my first thought was: “Now I know how people who imprinted on mainstream comics feel about Jonathan Lethem’s Fortress of Solitude.” I loved Fortress of Solitude, but I was often aware while I read of references passing me by, or simply detonating with less force than they [...]
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I just sent a contribution to the Nathan Wolfson Trust. If you knew L.K. Madigan, if you were a fan of her work, that is a thing you could do as well. I’m glad I had the chance to meet her through her friend and agent Jennifer Laughran, and glad, too, that we spent some [...]
Tonight I started reading Jo Walton’s astonishing Among Others. I had to put it down halfway through because it was making me too sad that I wouldn’t be able to talk about it with my father. To make myself feel better I went and found another excerpt from his fanzines to post. When he wrote [...]
There is a point when I’m working on something new when I can’t experience anything without seeing it through the lens of what I need for the new thing. I’m not going to talk about the new thing yet, probably not for a long long time. But here are a few items currently jostling together [...]
Ten years ago, I was part of a group planning an event that I couldn’t believe was going to happen until it did: Susan Cooper’s 2001 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture at the Scottish Rite Center here in Portland. It seemed impossible that the person who’d written my beloved, frequently-reread The Dark Is Rising sequence [...]
A fine sentiment for any day, really.
The other night I went to hear David Levithan read from The Lover’s Dictionary at Annie Bloom’s Books. The Lover’s Dictionary is, as you may know, a novel in the form of dictionary definitions. It was an excellent reading from a concise and elegant book. The book is especially well-suited to readings, since each entry [...]
I put out a call recently for good sources to aid in constructing myths & religion for invented worlds. This was inspired, among other things, by rereading the Earthsea books (backward starting from Tehanu — that experience may get its own post) and being impressed yet again with the density and richness of the world [...]
