Beluthahatchie

On NPR, Ursula K. Le Guin recommends Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak . I second that, as if she (or, for that matter, the Nobel committe...

The fine fiction writer Michael Martone , who did a stint as chair of creative writing while I was a graduate student at the University of A...

According to the AP, the other members of the country group Alabama (a.k.a. "Group Alabama Inc.") have filed suit against their f...

Here I am with the students in my spring 2008 seminar in the University of Alabama's Honors College. Left to right: Erica Mihelin, Casey...

Carol Pinchefsky alerts us to this fine 2004 poem from Speakeasy , reprinted in the Utne Reader .

Buddy Moore points out this recent events calendar in coastal North Carolina . Scroll down to the May 1-2 event at Roanoke Bible College: S...

I'm always delighted when science fiction crops up in conversation with non-sf folks. Sometimes someone other than me even brings it up...

For years Sydney and I had season tickets to the productions of the University of Alabama Department of Theatre and Dance , and one of the a...

Other news organs worldwide reported on a bit of climate-change research in Oxfordshire, but only the BBC rose to the headline-writing occas...

While I'm on the topic of unintentionally funny comics, Jack Roberts passes along this handy list of "The 5 Most Unintentionally Hi...

Tony Brock has introduced me to the Superdickery website, which started out compiling instances of Superman acting like a jerk, but has blo...

I was pleased to receive in Tuesday's mail my contributor copies of The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy, edited by Mike Ashley, a trade...

I'm surprised but delighted that my Eclipse One story "Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse" is one of the inaugural nominees for t...

... which I'm sure they'll do any week now, and when they split the proceeds with Sydney and me, as they long have promised, I'l...

National Defense magazine reports on the advice that science fiction writers, notably Larry Niven, are offering the Department of Homeland...

My 2004 story "Zora and the Zombie," which is about Zombies pre-George Romero (and with a capital Z), will be reprinted later thi...

"Chronicling Mars" is the theme of this year's Eaton Science Fiction Conference , May 16-18 at the University of California, R...

Anthony Burch marshals the arguments at the Bam!Kapow! website. Mark Hughes Cobb begs to differ: "Supes' vulnerability is in his ...

I was pleased that many versions of the AP's first-day story on Olympic-torch protests in San Francisco said the "parade rout"...

David Lowe passed along this fine blog entry, by New York Times reporter Andrew C. Revkin, on the scientific, economic and ethical issues ...