Flogging Babel

. 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...

 . One of Barry Malzberg's most delightful creations was Writers' Heaven, which he chronicled in four short stories. In a bespoke ne...

 . It's almost Christmas! So, in one of the most venerable traditions of this blog, I present my yearly seasonal story . . . The Parable...