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Except From Richard's Story to Appear on BBC World Service
From rdansky...it looks like BBC World Service will be running a piece on Stranded, the magazine Andrew Losowsky put together out of the experiences of the volcano-delayed. My understanding is that included in that piece will be an excerpt of something I wrote for the magazine, a short fiction piece called "Losing Altitude". So if you've got your ears on ( Read more... ) -
VIctoria Secret vs Lane Bryant
One ad is too salacious for prime time television. The other one is not.
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A New Book I'm Excited to Read...
I love Elizabeth Hand's work. Her mastery of craft is stunning. Every project is ambitious, and the ideas are always interesting and unique.
Therefore, though I'm leery of the current stampede of genre authors hopping aboard the YA train, I have to say I'm willing to give her new novel illyriaa try.
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God is a Socialist
The Old Testament lays down provisions by which the wealth of the land of Israel was to be redistributed every 50 years ( Read more... ) -
And Already the World Seems a Little Less Bright
George Scithers, who along with Darrell Schweitzer revived Weird Tales in the 80's and turned it into a magazine I wanted to read, whose Writers Guidelines for Weird Tales is still one of the best guides for good writing a young writer could wish for, who bought the first story I ever sold in this buisiness, died yesterday ( Read more... ) -
Volcanoes Are Pretty
Beauty is nothing but the beginning of a terror that we are barely able to endure--Rilke
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