It’s all very well hypothesising about those monkeys and typewriters, he says: isn’t it time for human beings to look around? “You’ve had a million humans, at least, writing away for much longer than a thousand years, and only one of them ever managed to produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Only one! Well, well, […]

Here’s the new cover for This is Not a Game, which will be coming to a bookstore near you in March. Whaddya think?

So I was washing my hair this morning, and I was using this small sample bottle that we’d been given by somebody or other, and the bottle says on it, “Green Tea and Willow.”Green tea and willow. In shampoo.Does anyone out there have any idea how these items are supposed to make my hair cleaner […]

Since my mother passed away I’ve been performing the sad but necessary task of going through her belongings. That includes several albums of photographs. Here’s a picture of my mother from 1921, when she was five years old. She’s outside the one-room schoolhouse in Makinen where she received her first eight years of education. I […]