by Jan Bear | May 21, 2004 | Uncategorized
Writing in the London Review of Books, James Wood takes a pen to this question in his review of The Oxford English Literary History, Vol. XII: 1960-2000: The Last of England? by Randall Stevenson: This absence of a general, non-academic literary criticism is the...
by Jan Bear | May 21, 2004 | Uncategorized
Turns out that Elena the Chernobyl motorcyclist is a hoax. I hope none my readers took her advice about riding motorcycles through a death zone. Apparently, Elena herself did not. Cue laugh track.
by Jan Bear | May 19, 2004 | Uncategorized
Steven Waldman at Slate finds essential similarities between the Harry Potter series and the Left Behind series. I think a number of them are overdrawn, but he finally has a point worth considering. Waldman observes that people who like Harry Potter don’t like...
by Jan Bear | May 18, 2004 | Uncategorized
Making Light: Bad advice on cover letters: ” ” Teresa Nielsen Hayden fisks some writing advice from Todd James Pierce. It’s always good to get the reaction from someone in the field.
by Jan Bear | May 18, 2004 | Uncategorized
The Tears of Things: The Prisons Behind Lisa Sette Gallery: Cuban Art Series #6 http://www.goarch.org/en/news/NewsDetail.asp?id=1057 While in Havana, in addition to numerous meetings with local government officials, the Patriarch also visited a children’s hospital and...