Shakespeare-like

July 14, 2008

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 festival was Shakespeare-like, it was fortunately not Shakespeare […]

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Daniel’s On A Roll (4)

July 8, 2008

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 […]

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The Bard of Utah

July 8, 2008

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 […]

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Americana

July 7, 2008

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 […]

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Time Off!

July 3, 2008

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, […]

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Even More Available!

July 2, 2008

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 interview with […]

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