It’s Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday today. 2009 is also the 150th anniversary of the publication of his master work, On the Origin of Species. Recognizing that most of us have not read it, The New York Times this week provided … Continue reading
Nancy Jane Moore
A couple of weeks ago, Vonda concluded her contest on bad book covers, showing some truly awful ones. But how about book covers that are good art, but have absolutely nothing to do with the book? About 8 or 9 … Continue reading
It probably won’t surprise anyone to learn that I thoroughly enjoyed Inauguration Day. I began supporting President Obama early on, attracted both by his obvious intelligence and his ability to take strong stands while still keeping a door open to … Continue reading
I was working on an introduction to my latest Book View Cafe story, “Cakewalk,” pointing out that it came from a real life sighting of a woman with a cake on her head, and suddenly I realized something important: I … Continue reading
My story, “Phone Call Overheard on the Subway,” available here on Book View Cafe, is now available in Spanish as “Llamada telefonica escuchasda en el subterraneao” on Breves no tan breves. And this week’s story, “Alternate Explanation,” originally appeared in … Continue reading
Check us out in this week’s Mind Meld at SF Signal. … Continue reading
Brent Staples recently had a brilliant essay on the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still in The New York Times: “Klaatu Had Better Rent the Video.” Klaatu and Gort depart He not only compared the movie unfavorably to … Continue reading
My story, “Three O’Clock in the Morning” (“Las tres en punto de la mañana”), appears in Spanish in a new anthology, Otras Miradas, edited by Sergio Gaut vel Hartman. Sergio is a science fiction writer and editor in Argentina. Among … Continue reading
NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday let me rant about high-heeled shoes on the air this morning (Jan. 4) — an appearance that had nothing whatsoever to do with Book View Cafe or with fiction, but which did allow me to address … Continue reading
That’s the classic question asked of writers, so classic it’s the subject of numerous jokes. (There’s this mail order house in New Jersey — send ’em 10 bucks and they’ll send you this week’s list of ideas.) The trick isn’t … Continue reading