In the Duke’s Sights: Danielewski, Carroll, Butcher, and Helgadóttir

In the Duke’s Sights is a regular column where I talk about the various books and movies that grabbed my interest in the last week. Destroying the Novel So Your TV Will Make Sense! I won’t pretend to fully understand all of Danielewski’s work, but I own all of it and find his refusal to […]

On Forgiveness and Redemption (Storify)

[Update:  since a number of people are reaching my blog via this page, please see this addendum post, which includes an apology and other things related to this post.] You’ll need to click the “read more” because the darn Storify is so long that it floods my main page. [View the story “On Forgiveness and […]

On the Future of This Blog and My Bid for World Domination

Earlier today, I had a rather revealing conversation with Jay Garmon, Fred Kiesche, and Paul Weimer about Patreon, blogging, and being successful at both (Patrick Hester was also there, but he just wanted to talk about donuts…).  As you know, I have a Patreon page.  Over the last week or so, I’ve been wondering why […]

Adventures in Teaching: Space Opera Course Recommendations?

In the upcoming fall semester, I will be teaching an upper division modern science fiction course on American space opera.  That’s right.  A whole entire course just on American space opera.  Though I have a few ideas for texts to teach, I realize that space opera is a massive field and that I would be […]

5 Reasons I Won’t Read Your Work

Having reviewed books somewhat spottily for over half a decade, I’ve developed a mental checklist to use when deciding whether I will read or review a book.  Most often, I just don’t have the time to read 159,997 novels in a year, so I turn down a lot of reviews because I know I won’t […]