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My Kickstarter, and my LJ.
So...hi. Long time no chat. Pull up a chair. Can I get you a drink?
As you've no doubt noticed, I'm not posting here any more. The blogging bug has relented, and what I have to say I'm saying either on my site or on my tumblr. I'm as active as ever on Facebook and especially on Twitter (@jessnevins), but as a blogger I think I'm in retirement.
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The dildos of pre-modern Europe.
Big ole blog post by me at my new digs. -
The first shared universes.
New article by me over on io9.com about the the first shared universes. -
Byron and the start of fandom.
I've got a short piece on Byron and the beginnings of fandom over at Warren Ellis' blog. -
Changes coming.
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The Husband's Message
In a recent review of The Word Exchange (W.W. Norton, 2011, ISBN # 978-0393079012) Michael Dirda wrote "This isn't gaily ribboned Camelot or Merrie Olde England...this is a wintry February world of cold iron, gray dawns, stoicism, and lonely exile." He's right, of course. These poems, splendidly translated by a number of talented modern poets ( ( Read more... ) -
"Ain't I A Woman?"
Many of us read, at some point or another, Sojourner Truth's speech, "Ain't I A Woman?" For those of you not from this country or who were never exposed to it, here's the speech as generations of kids learned it:
Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the ( Read more... ) -
Tim Stapleton's No Insignificant Part.
Tim Stapleton's No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War does yeoman's work in bringing to light the experience of native Africans serving in the Rhodesia Native Regiment (RNR), a unit of the British armed forces from what is now Zimbabwe, during World War One. Stapleton covers the ( Read more... ) -
File this under "Papers I'll Never Write."
Which is a mental category I (like most other writers) have for ideas which intrigue me and could potentially be fruitful, but which I will never have the time to write. (Or put together for a presentation at ICFA).
From the North-China Herald, 18 November 1916, in which the author is describing the debut of the tank during World War One:
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Today's excerpt from Fantastic Victoriana
over at the Beyond Victoriana blog is Charles E. Averill's Buena Rejon, from an unusually interesting novelette.