Edgar Allan Poe Vs. The Internet
For those of you who follow my comics writing, I'm happy to report that there's a new arrival in comics stores and bookshops this fall: I wrote a story in an...
Not a great month for literature.
Every time I opened a newspaper in my late teens and early 20s, when the fatwa against Salman Rushdie was at its height, I half-expected to read news that...
If you can't take the heat, stay off the increasingly warming planet
This week's heat wave has forced the dogs and I to retreat to the one room in my house with air conditioning for 21 hours a day. Because my life right now is...
Averse to the metaverse, inverse of the multiverse
I was disappointed, but not surprised, to read that Seattle author Neal Stephenson, who invented the idea of a metaverse in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, has...
A Short Walk to Nowhere in Particular
Hi there, I'm in the pits right now, friends. The news is all heartbreaking, the weather in Seattle is pretty dire, and nobody knows for sure if Covid is or...
