Flogging Babel

 .    A quarter-century ago, I carried a light portable tape recorder to a convention that my wife, Marianne Porter, could no...

    . Funerals are like tears. They rarely happen one at a time. Marianne and I were in Amherst for a memorial service when we got a phone c...

 .      A memorial was held for Jane Yolen in Amherst at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Which was appropriate...

 , Less than two hours before the day melts into the past, I've learned that this is Paul Linebarger's  birthday. Linebarger was a m...

 . Last Sunday, Marianne and Sean and I went to see Big Boy , which has been receiving enormous attention and tremendous crowds at every sto...

 . This is wild. My story, "The Very Pulse of the Machine,"  (or at least the Love, Death, & Robots  adaptation of it) was a t...

 .  My latest Tachyon Publications  collection of short fiction, The Universe Box , has been included in Locus Magazine's New and Notabl...