Jessica Chastain has two movies in the theaters at this moment.  Mama is a horror film, and Zero Dark Thirty isn’t. Without having seen the first, I suspect the second film is far, far scarier. It’s fortunate that I heard a lot about this movie before I saw it.  I knew to be prepared for grueling torture […]

So I’m just a little late in viewing Terrence Malick’s New World, which came out in 2005.  It was far down in my Netflix queue somewhere, but either Netflix’s computer glitched or every other damn disk wasn’t in the warehouse that day, so here the movie came.  It sat around for months, and then I […]

I’ve just read a literary novel.  And I suppose you know, simply from reading that sentence, that what follows will be a litany of complaint. My apologies for being so predictable. (Honestly, there are literary novels that I like, even adore.  This just doesn’t happen to be one of them.) Exhibit A for the prosecution […]

As a sort of belated holiday gift, I’ve made my Nebula-winning story “Daddy’s World” available free at Smashwords. It’s $0.99 at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.  I wanted to give it away free, but they insisted I had to charge something. Either way, it’s a bargain.  Enjoy!