Sunday, April 7, 2024

Now in Asimov's: "To Make an End" (and, "Is this thing still on?")

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 I had no idea this blog was still accessible till . . . now. Ten years after the publication of the fourth "Old Man" story, ...
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

"Good Show": New story in Asimov's

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The current issue of Asimov's Science Fiction contains (among other stories by a wonderful array of writers) my short story "Good S...
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Sunday, January 8, 2017

Sustained performance: Dashiell Hammett's THE MALTESE FALCON

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No, I hadn't read this before. No, haven't seen the movie. However, as soon as Sam Spade called someone "Sweetheart," I ...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Colorblind: Shirley Jackson's "Flower Garden"

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The "horror" in any Shirley Jackson tale is less rooted in the standard sources of narrative horror (death or some other violation...
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Saturday, December 10, 2016

Infinite spaces: Conrad's THE SHADOW-LINE

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The Shadow-Line , a compact novel of compressed action, puts Conrad's unnamed young captain (who is himself, and thus the novel's su...
Friday, December 2, 2016

We Have Met the Enemy: Ionesco's RHINOCEROS

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Teju Cole's recent New York Times essay ("A Time for Refusal") on Eugène Ionesco's 1958 play Rhinoceros connects the play...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

Tunneling in the dark: Whitehead's Underground Railroad

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I often said to my literature students that they had to judge a novel on what it aimed to do, not on what they wished it to do. This doesn...