Balkanization?

California speaks up on this week’s disaster. Everybody thought Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union would last forever.

Son of Book

Yesterday, when I needed cheering, the mailman brought me a copy of Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s Making Conversation. Like its predecessor, Making Book, it is two intertwined essay collections, one on publishing and the other on everything else, including the dubiousness of saints, IBM’s balls, pygmy mammoths, chaos is not your friend, trolls, and much else. Like its predecessor, it is delightful.