May 2012
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Review: Boys of Summer →
Another nice review of Boys of Summer (edited by Steve Berman), and my story, Breakwater in the Summer Dark. Everyone seems to think I am a boy.
“But at their core, artists and scientists are not so different from one another....”
– Bill O’Brien, National Endowment for the Arts
From The Imagine Engine! or Art and Science, exploring the creative practices of art and science and where they intersect, sometimes outside the comfort zones of either discipline.
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First Look: Boys of Summer Anthology →
A nice review for an upcoming young adult anthology I’m in, Boys of Summer (edited by Steve Berman).
April 2012
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Oh, when will I have time to write again?
/whine
March 2012
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“I’m just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I...”
– António Lobo Antunes, The Land at the End of the World (via wwnorton)
“The world is very quiet without you around.”
– Lemony Snicket (via strangerparadox)
February 2012
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10 Science Fictional Bars We’d Like to Visit (io9) →
Milliways should be number one, but fine. Fine.
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Innsmouth Magazine (Issue 9) →
My (extremely) short story ‘Five Houses on the Shore’ can now be found in issue nine of Innsmouth Magazine. Check out the link for a free pdf version, or purchase an ebook edition through Amazon.com.
(Innsmouth Free Press is also currently hosting their yearly fundraiser. Please consider donating or purchasing one of their publications, if you can. Small and micro presses cannot...
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“And I’ll dance with you in Vienna,
I’ll be wearing a river’s...”
– Leonard Cohen
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“People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of...”
– Marcel Proust
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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...”
– Robert A. Heinlein (via lettersfromelyse)
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“The beauty of things must be that they end.”
– Jack Kerouac, Tristessa (via honeyforthehomeless)
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“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is...”
– Henry Miller
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January 2012
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“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd...”
– Umberto Eco (Foucault’s Pendulum)
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“This isn’t about what is,” said Mr. Nancy. “It’s about what people think is....”
– Neil Gaiman (American Gods)
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“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written...”
– Yukio Mishima (Runaway Horses)
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“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen...”
– Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children)
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“We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have...”
– Joseph Campbell (The Power of Myth)
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“Some like to believe it’s the book that chooses the person.”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafon (via booksandnerds)
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“There’s a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists. Years ago, I...”
– Don DeLillo (Mao II)
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“If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How...”
– Don DeLillo (The Names)
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“It is known that Whistler when asked how long it took him to paint one of his...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
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“Here you go on this long long dream. Don’t even try to wake up. Just let...”
– Francesca Lia Block
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“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone... →
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“Language is a virus from outer space.”
– William S. Burroughs