Flogging Babel

. It was a social weekend -- Purdom's Ranger s on Saturday and tea on Sunday at Greg and Barbara Fros t' s house, along with Jason V...

. My contributor's copy of The Living Dead (Night Shade Books; edited by John Joseph Adams) arrived in the mail yesterday, and it looks...

. The latest issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction arrived today, and in it David Langford praised the short fiction of Frank Ke...

(photo courtesy of Leslie Howle) Friday, I went to the PSFS meeting to see their guest speaker and my pal, Connie Willis.  A friend took ...

. So Marianne was online and she and I were talking about Sappho the other night, and she sent me a link for a blog discussing various tran...

. Okay, Philadelphia is one strange city.  Saturday, there was a soapbox derby on "the Wall," the infamously difficult uphill stre...

. The above image is by Lee Moyer from his Literary Pin-Up Calendar work-in-progress. Lee, you'll remember, created the witty and vis...