…because it’s the only world we get, and because we inherit it, it seems permanent, and dependable.
Read MoreA Valentine to The Master and Margarita
In this season of love, I’m posting Valentines to my inspirations for my novel The Demon in Business Class. This one, to Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita.
Read MoreA Valentine to A Scanner Darkly
In this season of love, I’m posting Valentines to artistic inspirations for my own novel, The Demon in Business Class. This one, to Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly.
Read MoreA Valentine to The Alexandria Quartet
In this season of love, I’m posting Valentines to artistic inspirations for my own novel, The Demon in Business Class. Today, Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet!
Read MoreA Valentine to Farscape
In this season of love, every day this week I’m posting Valentines to inspirations for my novel, The Demon in Business Class. This is the first.
Read MoreOlder words for the Internet
This faith, in the inherent goodness of understanding, has made wonder and amazement and fantasy and miracle, as nouns and adjectives, all upbeat in our time. We might want to revisit that.
Read MoreHow writers read (sometimes)
I have no forethought, only an inadvertent method-acting, the way that some travelers unthinkingly restyle their hair to local norms. I really don’t know myself, at all. Existential panic notwithstanding, it’s a huge timesaver.
Read MoreSocial media is a bar
We knew they knew about that table in the back. We knew what the bartenders would say if we complained: “It’s just talk. Maybe they’re LARPing. They pay their tab, OK?”
Read MoreQ&A about The Demon in Business Class
Let’s talk about The Demon in Business Class! The Demon in Business Class is a modern fantasy about two people, Zarabeth and Gabriel. They each find a place in the world, a secret magic, where they fit, but they also find each other — and …
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