Sarah Kanning

A friend asked if I’d seen this op-ed by David Alpaugh in the Chronicle of Higher Ed. I responded to her directly, then figured, why waste a good rant? (Thanks for the nudge, Gretchen.)
Yes I did see this, and it ticked me off because it’s insipid. “There’s too much poetry! The good stuff gets lost! [...]

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This afternoon I heard more hand-wringing from yet another commentator (this one an author, Eric Weiner, on NPR) about the demise of paper books and the rise of electronic editions. Here’s an excerpt:
I’m confident that I’ll still get my fair share from each e-book sold. But as an author, I’m not after your money. Well, [...]

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Thank you, Gutenberg, for the retro-SF fix. Love the smiling-yet-menacing robot with the skinny legs. Check out the full issue here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30177/30177-h/30177-h.htm

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My birthday present to myself this year was a ballroom dancing class, taken with my sweetie. On the first day we arrived at the South Park Rec Building VERY nervous, being the only F/F couple in the group (of maybe a dozen or more couples), but our dance instructors Shirley and Blue (who are in [...]

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On his site, ConceptualFiction.com, Ted Gioia asks, “Did sci-fi writers from the 1940s and 1950s  anticipate the future of serious literature better than the so-called “serious writers” or, for that matter, the highbrow critics?”
Yes.
This essay is dear to my heart, as one who loves Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities just as much as Ursula K. le [...]

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