Brief writings, comments, updates and vignettes.
I’m glad to share with you that The Fabulist Magazine has been shortlisted for two Utopia Awards, and also has been nominated by the Pushcart Prize editorial board for inclusion in their 2022 “Best of the Small Presses” anthology. Cool beans! Check out the full announcement over at The Fab’s website.
Read MoreI’m thrilled to share that The Fabulist is hosting a reading at Lit Crawl 2021 on Saturday, October 23, from 8-9p.m., at the storied Adobe Bookstore in San Francisco’s Mission District. Our readers comprise a stellar lineup of Bay Area talent working with fantastical fiction, including Claire Light, Nick Mamatas and Annalee Newitz. Get the […]
Read MoreBy the way, it’s a serial comma. Oxford is in England, didn’t you know? Ah, but the comma-tariat, they care not for such details. And so we are oppressed, all of us, by the “Oxford” comma’s obtrusive demands for conformity, by its habit of boorishly inserting itself into places where it’s not welcome — like […]
Read MoreAs of this writing, secret police are cruising the streets of at least one American city, hustling citizens engaged in First Amendment-protected acts of protest off the streets in unmarked cars, where they are detained without charges in federal buildings. Stated so plainly, is it really alarmist to accuse our president of playing at Pinochet? […]
Read MoreSomeone put me on a panel about Big Tech — Google and Facebook, mostly — and then someone else wrote an article about it. The event was at City College, and was staged by the Press Club of San Francisco. Check out the article here. It was a fun panel. Also starring the extremely astute […]
Read MoreI don’t know where my old Muffs cassette is these days, but that band carved out a little space in my music-loving heart, and I was so sad to learn that their frontwoman, Kim Shattuck, has died way too young — age 56, of ALS. It’s not just their catchy little snarky/world-weary/get-over-it ditties. It’s the […]
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