Sarah Kanning

Read a bit on Skepchick about the “Quiverfull” movement the other day (go ahead, it’s a quick read, I’ll wait right here), and the whole concept of this group and others like it existing today highlights the need to understand culture as a response to environment and an attempt at solving real-world problems people are [...]

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Remember when Blaise Pascal wrote, “I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter”?
(That was in 1656 so I’m using “remember” a bit loosely, since none of us was there. Anyway.)
Twitter provides a needed corrective for the expansive nature of electronic communications. When you are printing a book, [...]

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The Center for the Study of Science Fiction at KU offers a novel-writing workshop each summer, taught this year by Kij Johnson (whose “26 Monkeys, Also The Abyss” is one of the Nebula finalists this year), and I just sent my application for this summer, which makes me nervous because
a. I might not get in.
b. [...]

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