A comet sits at the edge of our solar system, left out of the creation of planets. It’s been there for 4.5 billion years. So loosely is it committed to its dark nothingness, it barely moves. It doesn’t even know … Continued
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A Nicety of Nouns
“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” Thomas Mann A friend of mine is a writer and he is a judge. That particular combination requires that he use a pseudonym. … Continued
One Book, So Many Book Covers
Twenty-six years after it first went to print, a revised Under the House was issued by a new publishing company called Shelfstealers. In a later blog I’ll describe what led me to embark on the somewhat curious project of revising a … Continued