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In Praise of the Bar-Tailed Godwit, Plus Swedes!
Off to see Lydia Millet, author of (among other things) the swell Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, read in a short while. If you haven’t read it, you should. But the title of this post has to do with a wonder of the natural world (mostly). 7000 miles at a stretch? Amazing. Also amazing, in…
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Supernatural Update: Winchester Journal
I just got finished going through the layouts, and this book looks cool. Real cool. I have to mention here (again) that the people who bring you Supernatural are terrific. Also I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the great job by editor Chris Cerasi at DC, as well as Kate Nintzel and the…
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Tip of the Cap
To whoever has taken the time to edit 145 Wikipedia entries using the Vertigopedia as a source: egad, sir or madam. I commend your industry.
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Rumblings in the Heartland
A provocative anecdote from Nate Silver’s number-crunching electoral-poll-nerd extravaganza FiveThirtyEight.com: So a canvasser goes to a woman’s door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she’s planning to vote for. She isn’t sure, has to ask her husband who she’s voting for. Husband is off in another room watching some game. Canvasser hears…
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Italian-Style Buyout
My next novel, Buyout, concerns the consequences of a charter program under which prison inmates serving life sentences are able to take buyouts. The insurance company calculates the reserve amount they’re going to have to have on hand to feed/clothe/house/treat/litigate and offers the inmate X percent. In return, the inmate takes the Golden Needle. In…
Crooked House Fictions 