Author: Alex Irvine
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Buyout, Capital Punishment, and ‘Prison Porn’
A couple of days ago I had an excellent conversation with the excellent Matt Staggs of Enter the Octopus (and other literary endeavors too numerous to count).
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To the Moon!
Time has a piece today on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and future plans for the moon. Test flights of manned lunar spacecraft by 2015? Sweet. I look forward to celebrating my retirement with a vacation on the Sea of Nectars.
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Thoughts About Book Reviews Provoked by GalleyCat
In the video that follows, Flashlight Worthy co-founder Eric Mueller talks to GalleyCat’s Jason Boog and has some interesting things to say about the emerging dynamics of book reviews. The old dynamic is certainly moribund, as I have noticed in the weeks since Buyout came out; fewer and fewer of the old standby review outlets…