Avram Davidson: Shove Him Down Your Maw

Give me a 1958 Astounding with a hand-drawn, day-glo orange alien with overly large breasts on the cover, holding a ray gun to the heads of a couple of trembling teenagers in futuristic jumpsuits fresh off the set of Father … Continue reading

Didion, Truth, and Soup

If we’re going to be pals, there are three things about me with which you will need to be onboard:

Jonathan Franzen is Not a ‘Grampaw’

I like to think I learned a thing or two as an undergraduate about writing and reading nonfiction. While I can’t say with the utmost certainty that I’ll remember all of it for the rest of my life, I do … Continue reading