Flogging Babel

. Ten days from now I'm going to have what I honestly expect will be a great conversation with Samuel R. Delany at the Rosenbach ...

. Once a year I present this story here. Sometimes the details differ by a word or three. But the message, I think, is timeless. ...

. For every thing there is a season, saith the prophet. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up...

. Last Saturday, Marianne and I went to the Army-Navy Game. We had great seats on the lower level at the 50-yard line, courtesy of a ...

. It was a glitterati kind of day. Brenda Clough  was in town for her  Galactic Philadelphia reading the night before last (along wit...

. By now you've heard the sad news. Gahan Wilson , master of the macabre cartoon, is with us no more. I only met the man once but ...

. Everybody called him Mike because there were already John Fords in the culture--a movie director, a Jacobean playwright, a... well...