Author: Alex Irvine
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Excerpts! Get Your Excerpts!
I retooled the sidebar so a couple of long-dead links now live again. Also, there are now links to excerpts from A Scattering of Jades, The Narrows, and One King. The Jades link is to Google Books, which has a 55-page selection from the book. I know that as a writer and staunch defender of…
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News from F&SF
According to the magazine’s blog, they’re going bimonthly. As a longtime fan of and contributor to F&SF, this makes me a little sad even though the page count isn’t going to differ significantly after this year. Whatever Gordon needs to do–and he seems bullish on the move in the blog post–the field needs him and…
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Since You Asked…
Here’s what I’m going to be teaching in my contemporary American fiction class this spring. I ended up going only with books published in the last 20 years (cheating by a year to add Beloved). If I had to do this list over again tomorrow, it would be different: more small-press stuff, more genre stuff,…
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Happy New Year!
…he said on the 3rd, which is maybe a signal of what kind of year this is going to be. Christmas was outstanding, as were the two Hanukkah feasts we attended/hosted. The kids now have telescopes, easels, Bakugan, cameras… Also we made a bunch of fudge and cookies to send to these two soldiers we…
Crooked House Fictions 