Sarah Kanning

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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On TV, everything has to be sexier, including Harry Dresden.

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I just picked up a copy of the September issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and it has a great short story by Laura Kasischke (which I think is her first in the speculative fiction vein; she has published broadly in poetry and literary fiction). The story is told in the first person by an [...]

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Drat! I was all ready to sing the praises of The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series as a useful tool for writers, having read the volume on life in Chaucer’s England by Forgeng and McLean (quite readable but detailed), but the books on Elizabethan England and the Vikings (yes, that’s two separate books) don’t [...]

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