Category Archives: Books

Another Take On Fiction For The Brain

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

Over at Book View Cafe, Nancy Jane Moore has an interesting post on Annie Murphy Paul’s article and other related research by Keith Oatley and Raymond Mar. As a book designer, I would be curious to see a study that … Continue reading →

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Reading Fiction Is Good For The Brain (and what’s good for the brain is good for the rest of your body)

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

It turns out that reading fiction is actually good for you. Not that I didn’t already believe that, but I’ve met plenty of people who don’t read fiction, because they say they only want to read real things. This piece … Continue reading →

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Western Novella

Posted on February 16, 2012 by

That’s what the contract says. I sold a surreal western novella to PS Publishing. Now all I have to do is write it. (Note: this is not how I normally do things; I usually crawl along, stapling words together, getting … Continue reading →

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Couple of Links

Posted on October 13, 2011 by

I liked this piece on Bookslut by Greer Mansfield about the fiction of Sheridan Le Fanu, M.R. James, and Robert Aickman. I haven’t read much Le Fanu or James. In fact, I didn’t even realize that I own a copy … Continue reading →

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Circus eBook

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

Circus of the Grand Design is now available as an ebook, brought to an ebook store near you by the lovely and talented Keith Brooke, of Infinity Plus. Circus came out in hardback from Prime Books in 2004. Locus Magazine … Continue reading →

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Robert Aickman

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

Recently, I strolled through Robert Aickman’s short story collection The Wine-Dark Sea. I had been wanting to read some of his stories and picked this one because it was available from the library. The book is made up of stories … Continue reading →

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Audiobook Out

Posted on June 15, 2011 by

The Painting and the City is now out on audiobook, from iambic audiobooks. Checking the audio proofs has been an interesting experience. I hope to conduct an interview soon with the main narrator, Robert Keiper.

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New York, Emshwiller, Etc.

Posted on April 15, 2011 by

I’m back home after a short trip to New York for the Carol Emshwiller 90th birthday reading party event. Jim Freund, who runs the New York Review of Science Fiction reading series and hosts the Hour of the Wolf show … Continue reading →

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