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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…
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A Little Writing News
Couple more short stories have made safe landings at magazines. “The Dream Curator,” which some of you might have seen me read at KGB a while back, will appear in Postscripts sometime next year, and “Dragon’s Teeth,” involving some of the same characters from “Wizard’s Six,” is coming from F&SF. This is the first time…
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So Long, Freep
The Detroit Free Press, at 177 one of the venerable urban newspapers in the US, is ending weekday home delivery and curtailing the content of its print edition. Their particular method is interesting in that it doesn’t involve a massacre in the newsroom, unlike those that have occurred at other papers. So perhaps we’re seeing…
Crooked House Fictions 