Monthly Archives: December 2006

Weekly Wrap: Our Favorite Spec Fiction

Want to know what I think of you? Because I talked about you here with writer and former Peace Corps volunteer, Jason Boog, who runs The Publishing Spot, a blog so fascinating and considerate of how little free time I have that it’s become daily required reading for me.

Jason broke the interview into five bite-sizes […]

Pearl Harbor Pop Pop

When Pop Pop Henderson visited us last month, we decided to tape him telling his story of Pearl Harbor Day. He was eight at the time and living in Honolulu. He tells what he saw from his yard, the change in the grownups as they covered the windows in blankets, and how - once the […]

Fantasy/Sci-Fi Humorists

Hi folks! My name is Pete, and I am the editor and publisher at Creative Guy Publishing and Liaison Press in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I managed, through some begging, pleading and plain old bribery, to get some opinions and insights on the state of humour in science fiction and fantasy these days, from some of […]

Question of the Week: Fantasy and Science Fiction

The problem with people who don’t cry very often is that when they do cry, there’s maybe a decade’s worth of sorrow backed up, and they can’t even stop crying when the killer headache sets in. And then they can’t leave the house because their eyes are practically swollen shut and they don’t want even […]

Tao Lin

Blake Butler interviews poet Tao Lin
At 23, Tao Lin has managed to end up with his name in a ridiculous number of mouths. Between his seemingly endless list of publications both print and online, to his trouble-stirring rants about editing and first serial rights and, yes, hamsters, at his blog, Reader of Depressing Books, people […]

Weekly Wrap: Introverts at the Microphone

I’m going to tell you a story about the only reading I ever organized, and I think it illustrates both the absurdity and the awesomeness of bringing writers out from behind their keyboards and up to the microphone.

When I was the managing editor of a certain literary magazine, my colleague and I came up […]