Flogging Babel

. On Monday, I put up a Halloween story here. I was going to write it on fallen leaves, but this year the weather was dry and the ...

. I attended two local literary events here in Philadelphia this week. Not bad, eh? The first was the premier of the SFWA-sponsored r...

. It needs to be said regularly: Don't start your career with a trilogy. I first published the essay below in 2010, but everythin...

. I was doing some preliminary research on a novel I might (or might not) write three or four books from now when I ran across Winoos...

. Marianne and I do a lot of traveling and we travel actively. We travel to discover, to learn, to stand frozen with awe. We wander do...

. They're hard to spot, difficult to find. But if you're patient and tenacious -- and if you're looking in the right plac...

. When I first came to Philly in the early Seventies, the city shut down in summer. Air conditioning was rare. You'd go to a movi...