This was our weekend for the opera. We went to Santa Fe for two nights and stayed in Gene and Holly Bostwick’s lovely casita. The three-room guest house is well-equipped with beds and drinks and tidbits installed in a small fridge, but it lacks cooling. As the interior temperatures approached 90 degrees, we reflected that, […]

Howard Waldrop— y’know, the writer who invented steampunk and has written the best alternate-history stuff in the world, and who is known to his friends as “Mister National Treasure”— has launched, or rather allowed someone else to launch, a new edition of “the world’s most technologically primitive blog.” Check it out for a world-view uniquely […]

Huffington Post has done an extremely useful thing: created an online database of presidential campaign contributions, which can be broken down by zip code or by name of donor. As the site itself notes, Beverly Hills 90210 has given $1,212,014 to candidates; whereas South Central 90011 has given $4250. Which zone will be best represented […]

Daniel Abraham’s A Betrayal in Winter has just been released. It’s really, really good. Go forth and, without passing Go, buy it straightaway. This is Book II of the Long Price Quartet. I’ve already had the rather sumptuous pleasure of reading Book III, and am in the process of reading Book IV, so you know […]