Author: Alex Irvine
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New Story Up at Subterranean
My story “Eagleburger’s Lawn,” a comic meditation on weddings and our obsession with manicured grass, is now up at Subterranean. The issue also offers an interview by Joe Lansdale with two of his most famous fictional creations, Hap and Leonard. Check it out.
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Free Sample of Mystery Hill from PS
Over at PS Publishing, there are a host of free samples, including one from Mystery Hill (which is expanded from the version that appeared in F&SF last year). SF Signal has the list of the other available samples. I’m off to check them out. And by the way, I’ve got another novella coming from PS…
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New Initiatives at F&SF
Recently F&SF editor Gordon Van Gelder announced that the magazine is going to create an online workshop, run by Gardner Dozois, with the aim of nurturing new writers. For the record, I think Gordon has taken a lot of undeserved heat about the number of new writers breaking into the magazine. (I would say that,…
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Happy New Comics Day
Daredevil Noir #4 is out, concluding my dalliance with The Man Without Fear. These are the issue’s two covers, by Tomm Coker and Dennis Calero. (Update: forgot to include this early (p)review by Comics Bulletin’s Dave Wallace.)
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Dear Olympia Snowe
You are my favorite of my adopted state’s two senators. This makes me bang my head on the desk when you say something like this: In an Associated Press interview in Portland, Snowe said it would be unfair to include a government-run health insurance option that would take effect immediately. “If you establish a public…
Crooked House Fictions 