Discussion among Fantasy afficionado friends and colleagues today brought to light a very mean-spirited and mealy-mouthed profile story from Wired Magazine, by a certain Jason Kehe, about an author who is unbelievably successful, but about whom even some fans of Fantasy literature may not know much. At first it came Continue Reading
Day: 24 March 2023
“I came here to kick ass and banish snakes… And I don’t see no snakes…” : Snakes on a ‘splain – the Real History of Saint Patrick and His Day
So! Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Happy Spring Equinox! [there follows the transcription, lightly edited, of an ex tempore lecture to students delivered during the Plague Years, and thus recorded for them as a video, in a playground full of Spring flowers, birdsong, and the sound of playing children, rendering the Continue Reading