Celebrate July Fourth (at any time) the rockabilly way, by listening to me  -- Todd Seavey, author of Libertarianism for Beginners -- inte...

•Careful observers will have noticed I have four favorite topics on this blog, basically sci-fi, music, science, and politics. But ha...

•Janice Erlbaum gets inside the head of a despicable person in her novel I, Liar , showing us convincingly the process of character formati...

•I saw Malcolm Gladwell interview Katherine Taylor, author of the novel Valley Fever , earlier this month, and he was very good at subtly t...

I failed to blog about a book last week, but let’s try making up for it this week by blogging about two texts per day in this final week o...