More on nuns, money, and the evolution of language
I know, I’ve been largely absent. Life is just being very, hm, lifelike at the moment. But here’s a long, juicy post…
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The nuns aren’t rolling over
The Vatican vs. uppity nuns battle is shaping up to be misogyny vs. nunsense, or perhaps Vatican vs. Vatican II. As I…
Read moreKelley, Ray Bradbury, and Nature
FIRST of all, Kelley has written a most marvellous and heartfelt piece about the necessity of finding everyday magic to write: …But…
Read moreTolkien’s storytelling not up to snuff?
I amused myself yesterday by briefly getting apoplectic over a Guardian article: Tolkien was dismissed by the 1961 Nobel prize jury as…
Read moreHild and Cromwell
I’ve said before how Hild was originally intended to be a single novel. In the writing, that all changed. Yesterday I saw…
Read moreHow facts get distorted, but prejudice is still out there
A couple of days ago, I wrote here about a story in PW in which two children’s authors claimed their agent wouldn’t…
Read moreHey, at least I’m "sharp-eyed"
The Guardian books podcast is up (many thanks to Cheryl for pointing it out). They include mention of the recent fuss over…
Read moreTaking the Russ pledge
The fabulous Cheryl Morgan has written a blog post, Female Invisibility Bingo, about the post I did at the weekend about how…
Read moreA shocking UK sf ‘favourites’ score: men 500, women 18
Yesterday, in the Guardian , Damien G. Walter asked readers to list their favourite sf. And they did. In a follow-up blog…
Read moreSex, again
In the Guardian, they’re talking about literary sex. Most of the writers in the article seem to agree with Martin Amis that:…
Read moreIf you’d like to buy me a present
photo: Sotheby’s According to the Guardian: Sotheby’s has announced it is to sell an extremely rare and perfectly conditioned first edition of…
Read moreAustralian bush fires
In the Guardian, an update on the truly terrible bushfires sweeping Victoria: The death toll from the deadliest bushfires in Australia‘s history…
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