Friend and colleague Lewis Shiner is a writer and novelist who has been releasing his fiction on the web for the last few years. Here’s an appreciation of Lew and his site that I wrote for the SILS Galley, way back in Fall 2007: Raleigh resident Lewis Shiner made his name in the ’80s as [...]
A very nice habit we picked up from Liz’s parents was her dad reading to her mom. We’ve adapted that to me reading to Liz before she turns out the light for bed (I’m an owl, we stay up later). After much experimentation, we’ve decided that memoirs are the best before-bedtime subject matter. Even then, [...]
Tagged Roald DahlThanks to the glory of Netflix, Liz and I saw this documentary that I can assure you never visited the Carolina Theatre. It’s a bio-doc on the writer Harlan Ellison, 72 years old at the time of the movie’s release in 2007, and covers an impressive sweep of his life, with samples of him reading [...]
Tagged blessay, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman