The Elections Monster
The elections might be the only thing worth talking about anymore, if talking is still something that interests people. There are so many...
Ask the Aliens: An Open Call
You have to know when to ask for help. Sometimes, after hearing a description of the Voyager record, or listening to it for themselves,...
Pairing: The New Inquiry and Fast Company
There are some things that probably should not pair well together, and yet, because of certain underlying affinities, they do. This can...
On The Constraint Issue of the Ilanot Review
Yesterday, the Constraint issue of the Ilanot Review went live. I was the guest fiction editor and also did an interview with Jenny...
The Voyager Record Preorders Are Go
The Voyager Record is now available for preorder on the Rose Metal Press website. If this video of Carl Sagan talking about Voyager, its...
Pairing: The Phantom Menace & The Force Awakens
The latest installment of the Star Wars franchise, The Force Awakens, picks up the story thirty years after Return of the Jedi left our...
As Soon As You Drive It Off the Lot
It's 2016, and for the first time in my life, I know how to drive a car. This is a really late-in-the-game change for me, and I'm not...
Misreading
A bad translation is always worse than a bad adaptation. Part of this is codified in the truism "the movie is never as good as the book."...
Pairing: David Foster Wallace & Kanye West
For the last few days (and a lot earlier than that too) Kanye West has been in the news. Starting with a tweet last week ("BILL COSBY...
Blog Voice
So far my blog voice has been my impersonation of what I think a blog sounds like. And for me that has meant a voice that is trying to...
