Flogging Babel

.   Here's a curiosity--the cover story of the June 11, 1981 issue of Analog .  It wasn't fiction. "Mars in 1995!" by Bob...

 . Recently, I picked up a copy of Collected Stories of John O'Hara , selected and edited by Frank MacShane, and what a good decision t...

. Michael Swanwick's Ten Rules for New Writers 1. Read everything. Read voraciously. Read so much that people who love you are concerned...

 . Opus 40 in Saugerties, New York, is an ancestral work of landscape art. Sculptor Harvey Fite bought a played-out slate mine in 1938 and,...

.     Look what came in the mail! Crows and Silences is a collection of four novellas by Lucius Shepard with an int...

 . As happens with some frequency, Open Road Media is having an e-book sale. Actually, two of them. As clipped from the email they sent me: ...

 . Here's a random memory: Back in the seventies, there was an underground comix series called Insect Fear  which basically tried to out...