Rough Edges

The origins of Day Keene’s 1951 novel LOVE ME AND DIE are a little murky. According to Gil Brewer’s stepdaughter, Brewer ghosted this novel...

Like a lot of writers, I have a Google search saved for my name, so if anything new about me turns up on the Internet, I get an email about ...

Cullen Gallagher and his friends at Not Coming to a Theater Near You are putting together what looks like it'll be an excellent series ...

Over the past few years, Megan Abbott has become not just one of my favorite new writers, but one of my favorite writers, period. Her new n...

We’re still watching other movies besides those based on Tennessee Williams plays, of course. CHILDREN OF MEN, which came out a few years a...

I don't normally recommend a book I haven't even seen yet, let alone read, but I have no trouble doing so in this case. I've s...

This is one I had seen before, so I can’t call it a Movie I’ve Missed, but it’s been close to forty years since I watched it, and on late ni...

Livia has a really nice post over on her blog tonight about the life of a freelance writer. It won't necessarily cheer you up, but I t...

I’m writing about another science fiction novel this week, although of somewhat more recent vintage than last week’s THE GIRL IN THE GOLDEN...

Like Randy Johnson, I've heard from the daughter of Jack Jardine ("Larry Maddock") about my posts on his Agent of T.E.R.R.A. ...