Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
James Morrow's books include The Philosopher's Apprentice and The Last Witchfinder.In 2006 he named a top ten list of books on witch persecutions for the Guardian. One title on the list:Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Krämer and James SprengerIn 1484 Pope Innocent VIII, whose name must now be counted the paragon of misnomers, deputised two Dominican friars to go on a fact-finding mission
The World in the Satin Bag (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
There was an enormous book sale here in Gainesville over the last few days and I thought I’d let you all know what I got (a lot of stuff, actually). Next time, in April, I don’t think I will be going quite as all out, mostly because I don’t have as much need for a lot of books anymore. I intentionally went this year trying to find things to use for my research, and now I’m only...
The Rag Blog (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Welcome to Tenaha! Photo by Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches / Flickr.Bizarre License on Highway 59: The Cash Cops of TenahaBy Greg Moses / The Rag Blog / August 20, 2009It was Friday of the last day of August, 2007 when Arkansas resident James Morrow attempted to mind his own business while driving peaceably through Tenaha, a small East Texas town in Shelby County south of Shreveport and
The Key Monk (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
James Morrow in response to White House Communications Director Anita Dunn's citing Mao Tse-Tung as one of her favorite political philosophers: the Obama White House is rapidly becoming a big tent for the sort of cranks who set up card tables on the fringes of growers' markets and pass out hand-xeroxed fliers.
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
MARK TAPSCOTT: Does Obama’s communications chief know the bloody truth about Chairman Mao? If not, what’s she doing in the White House? Related thoughts from James Morrow. “One of the first rules of public speaking is, ‘be careful whom you quote’. If you’re a reasonably educated human being, therefore, it should be obvious [...]
James Maxey - The Prophet and the Dragon (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
This weekend I'll be at Capclave near Washington, DC. I'm really looking forward to hanging out with friends from the con circuit and to meeting new folks in the DC area. Here is my schedule: Fri 8pm Randolph - Comics and Graphic Novels Participants: Michael Pederson (m), James Maxey, Steve Stiles, Lawrence Watt-Evans Comics and graphic novels frequently feature SF/Fantasy elements. Which ones are...
14theditch (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Year's Best Fantasy 9 , edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer is now officially out for purchase. It is being published by TOR.com , and you can get it at their online store http://store.tor.com/book/9780765324498 as well as at the usual online booksellers. I posted the table of contents a little while back on the ditch, but here it is again: " Shoggoths in Bloom " by Elizabeth Bear...
Useless of Blog (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
I'm old enough to remember Spitting Image , the satirical puppet show of the 1980s. At the time, everyone watched it. You knew you'd made it when your puppet popped up on Spitting Image. In fact, it's no exaggeration to say that more than one person's image was reformed (or perhaps simply deformed) by Spitting Image. The snooker player, Steve "Interesting" Davies , acquired his middle name...
Spiral Galaxy Reviewing Laboratory (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
My last panel got out at ten, and very few people are in the hotel bar (many more Delta parties tonight). After thorough deliberation and a glass of wine, sanity won out (given that Curtis & I have a 9am thing tomorrow--a fencing demonstration!) and we're back in our room. Our Con has been such that we haven't even been inside the Delta (party hotel) yet--we'll probably get there tomorrow. Today...
Uncertain Principles (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
As previously noted, I will be on programming at the upcoming Worldcon in Montreal, including moderating a panel at 10am Saturday with the following title and description: The Philosophy of Science To what extent does SF explore the meaning of science for scientists and create the ideas that our culture has of science? Panelists: Greer Gilman, James Morrow, Jeff Warner, Richard Crownover, and DD Barant...
14theditch (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
Here's the cover from the upcoming Year's Best Fantasy (9) from David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer . It will be published, I believe, this coming Fall, by TOR.com. I borrowed this toc from SF Signal. " Shoggoths in Bloom " by Elizabeth Bear "The Rabbi's Hobby" by Peter Beagle "Running the Snake" by Kage Baker "The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm" by Daryl...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Today marks SF Signal's 6th Birthday! Yay us! :) It's been another fine year here at SF Signal. Not only are we having fun (with minimal harm to the environment - the people around us are another story) but we must also be doing something right: just last week we passed 5,000 subscribers to our RSS feed. That's a nice number. Of course, 10,000 is twice as nice, so everyone hack into your neighbor's...
Book Addicts Anonymous (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
I loved this book, but some may not do, as the book itself "talks" to the reader at intervals throughout the book. These passages are quite clearly the book talking, but I can appreciate it may un-nerve some. The main character, Jennet Stearne is a very strong willed girl/woman, who has a grasp of many things that are usually the province of men at the time. I think the bumph probably tells...
Victoria Daily Photo (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
The hands above belong to James Morrow . James is crafting another of his fine pieces of jewelry from pieces of genuine woolly mammoth tusks. James obtains the tusks from the northern areas where the mammoths roamed up to about 10,000 years ago. Climate change at the end of the last ice age is thought to have caused their extinction and tusks are often recovered from the tundra, especially during gold...
Peachybooks (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
The Philosopher's Apprentice was a random library selection, simply because it was on the returned books shelves at the library and the description appealed. The book starts with Mason Ambrose storming out of his PHD viva, where he is defending his thesis, Ethics from the Earth. Soon after this, as he is ruminating on where his life will take him next, he is approached to take on a job tutoring a seventeen...
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