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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…
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Dear Alice Hoffman
I… Well, that is… Nevermind. Ron Hogan said it better than I could have. So did Beau Dure. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Sincerely, A fellow writer
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1-800-AUTOPSY: Notes Toward a Michael Jackson Essay I’ll Never Write
This line from the morning’s main Michael Jackson story on CNN caught my attention: “Vidal Herrera, founder of 1-800-AUTOPSY…” In addition to being probably the best thing that happened to that CNN stringer all day, this sentence provoked in me a strange reaction, which was: Of course Jackson’s family got in touch with a place…
Crooked House Fictions 