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Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 268 entries, all of them here in full.
May 16, 2010 · 54 words
Gaining Altitude
Me and my friend here, Iron Chef Walter, are off to Taos for a week. My appearances are likely to be intermittent for the next seven days or so. In fact I make not make it back if I’m hanging out with this guy. As you can see, he can really put it away.
Read entry →May 15, 2010 · 126 words
Somewhere Clint Eastwood Is Smiling
With the environment under threat, and the so-called “experts” failing to come up with a solution, the President makes a wild call, and a rag-tag band of mavericks steps up to the plate and jury-rigs a solution that saves the day . . . No, this isn’t the movie Armageddon. This is real life. With […]
Read entry →May 14, 2010 · 411 words
Your Daily Dose of Paranoia
It’s been a week since Wall Street’s flash crash, when runamuck automated selling wiped out a tenth of my retirement fund— and, somewhat less importantly, a trillion dollars of assets worldwide. The stocks have come back, but what I find interesting is that no one’s actually found what triggered the manic selling
Read entry →May 13, 2010 · 163 words
The Green Leopard and Other Plagues
My new collection, The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories, is now available! Ask for it wherever fine books are sold! Contained in the volume are two stories that actually won Nebula Awards, as well as other stories that were nominated for Nebulas, Hugos, and/or Sidewises, but due to some horrid cosmic accident did
Read entry →May 10, 2010 · 50 words
A Really Cool Idea That I Can’t Know Anything About
I could use some free publicity about now, so could one of you please load a cooler with a bunch of my books and leave it in Times Square? Just don’t tell me when or if you’re going to do it. Or who you are. Or anything.Thank you.(/irony)
Read entry →May 6, 2010 · 868 words
Coffee Bread
Recently my cousin Karla and her mom Alice passed through New Mexico on the way to a bowling tournament in El Paso. I get to see my relatives maybe once every decade, so I was pleased to invite them over for dinner and to show them around Albuquerque. Unfortunately this was a day of a […]
Read entry →May 5, 2010 · 1,651 words
Progress
[Update: Due to the vagaries of Blogger, this essay was originally published as if it were written on April 26. Thanks to Ken, I’ve learned how to adjust the time stamp, so here it is, as if it were new.]I just got round to reading an essay/review by novelist/critic James Wood published a month or […]
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