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July 15, 2008 · 669 words
Imperial Ain’t In It
At the end of our trip we spent two nights at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. I haven’t been to the Grand Canyon in something like thirty years: I went with my dad as a teenager, and some time in the late 1970s there was a LepreCon on the South Rim, and I […]
Read entry →July 14, 2008 · 907 words
Shakespeare-like
The theater festival we attended last week was a Shakespearean festival rather than a Shakespeare festival. By which I understand that the events were not Shakespeare, but somehow like Shakespeare. Stratford, Oregon, Los Angeles, and Tulane have Shakespeare festivals. Utah is alone in being Shakespearean. If the festiv
Read entry →July 8, 2008 · 241 words
Daniel’s On A Roll (4)
Just when you began to suspect this blog was going to be all about me all the time, here I prove you wrong.An Autumn War, the third book of Daniel Abraham’s Long Price Quartet, is about to be released.I’ve read the book in manuscript, and it’s spectacularly good. Buy it and read it, along with […]
Read entry →July 8, 2008 · 858 words
The Bard of Utah
We are in Cedar City, Utah, home of the Utah Shakespearean Festival. Kathy had been trying to get me to the festival for years. “I have seen Shakespeare in London,” I told her. “I have seen Shakespeare in Stratford. Wherefore would I wish to see Shakespeare in Utah?” Which I still maintain is a perfectly […]
Read entry →July 7, 2008 · 794 words
Americana
This teepee motel, by the way, was across the highway from Bubba’s Hickory Bar-B-Que and Welding Supply. I took this picture on the Fourth of July. I am here to tell you that the real America— the America of teepee motels and Bubba and two-lane blacktop— is still very much alive. We passed by a […]
Read entry →July 3, 2008 · 96 words
Time Off!
I’m going away again. I’ve had four trips out of town in the last two months. The shortest of these trips was a week. Travel has beaten me into the ground like a tent peg. I am a wreck. Yet here I go another time. But this trip is different! The other trips, while fun, […]
Read entry →July 2, 2008 · 98 words
Even More Available!
Implied Spaces is even more available! Powells.com has restocked! Even Amazon has copies now!!! (And what the hell was their problem, anyway?) And, even cooler, in order to raise anticipation along with your level of salivation, Night Shade has made an excerpt available online! But that’s not all! You can also read an
Read entry →July 2, 2008 · 159 words
I AM EVERYWHERE!!!!
There seems to be a plethora of me available these days. (Except on bookshelves, apparently.)Locus magazine is offering an interview with me free with a subscription, or for $3 if you’ve got the money to spare. An elegy for Aristoi is to be found on the Lost and Lonely Books List. Jeffrey Thomas, author of […]
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