Tag: books
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Gender and Writing
Monsters & Dames: Slow Day in the Labyrinth, a photo by quirkybird on Flickr. I came across this wonderful illustration and it seems to sum up a few of the thoughts I’ve had lately on gender and writing. There’s been a lot written about the under-representation of women in the broad literary community. Most recently, […]
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Ray Guns and Other Good News
This week my first novel, What the Dead Said, has made it out into the world. Not only that, but a short story of mine, The Beginning of Human Flight: The True Story, has been accepted for issue 10 of SWAMP. But, perhaps more impressively, my sister has created a ray gun out of things […]
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Libraries
I recently found an unexpectedly wonderful book in the library (Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead”) and it made me consider what an extraordinary thing libraries are: piles and piles of books that anyone can borrow. It is a shame, in a way, that we do not have the same capacity to share clothes, or tools, or a […]
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Embassytown
Read, and loved Embassytown. Perhaps the most interesting part of the book was the early stuff. by the end, it felt like a playing out of theories, rather than a compelling story line. Still, to have half Mieville’s imagination ….
DJ Daniels 