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Reissues and fonts 19 Aug 2013 | 03:49 am
I used to spend hours every week browsing in bookstores, new and used. I'd even think nothing of devoting an entire day to doing so. In recent years, all that has changed. Instead, I do a lot of brows...
It's Howard, everywhere you look 2 Aug 2013 | 07:00 am
It seems it's Howard running things here in the US, wherever you look. You remember Howard Hunter, the guy on the 1980s television series Hill Street Blues? The guy who was a rabid advocate of militar...
Do book publishers' slush piles have much relevance to gender issues in sf/f publishing? 23 Jul 2013 | 02:00 am
The latest Galactic Suburbia podcast-- episode 85, July 21, 2013-- is a must-listen for anyone interested in the on-going conversation about sexism in sf/f publishing. The podcast series as a whole, o...
Helen Thomas, 1920-2013 22 Jul 2013 | 03:25 am
Journalist Helen Thomas died yesterday at the age of 92. The obituaries now appearing characterize her with a variety of epithets-- "trailblazer," "pioneer," "feisty scourge," "barrier-busting," "form...
More theater of the absurd-- 13 Jul 2013 | 04:24 am
-- this time in Texas. Due to the success of Wendy Davis's filibuster of legislation that would have virtually ended legal abortion in Texas, the governor felt the need to call a special session of th...
The Cascadia Subduction Zone, Vol. 3, 3 10 Jul 2013 | 02:15 am
The summer issue of The Cascadia Subduction Zone is out! You can purchase the issue for $3 (or subscribe for $10) at http://www.thecsz.com/. Vol. 3 No. 3 — July 2013 Essay Musing on Sandberg’s Lean...
A few thoughts about freedom of speech 5 Jul 2013 | 08:25 am
It's Independence Day in the US. And so I'd especially like to honor the US Bill of Rights today, with particular attention to the first and fourth amendments, which (like the fifth, sixth, and eight ...
Bank of America's latest bit of theater of the absurd 2 Jul 2013 | 03:33 am
The news for civil rights, women's reproductive freedom, and democracy has been see-sawing like crazy lately. The latest, breaking news of the trial of Jeff Olson, who was prosecuted for writing--with...
Quote of the day 30 Jun 2013 | 05:32 am
On or around June 6, 2013, it became impossible to consider writing about harnessing the power of Big Data for the humanistic enterprise without contemplating its power for more distinctly inhuman ent...
Joan Slonczewski and Jo Walton's The Helix and the Hard Road 27 Jun 2013 | 04:27 am
Every year, WisCon's guests of honor read at Madison's feminist bookstore, Room of One's Own, on Thursday evening. It's the event that officially kicks off the con, and it's always the scene of people...
