tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313 Arthur D. Hlavaty Arthur D. Hlavaty 2024-11-28T11:21:05Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2492593 2024-11-28T11:21:05Z 2024-11-28T11:21:05Z public 6 From a post that Facebook disappeared before I could comment, about why <i>The Giving Tree</i> is a controversial book and gifted & talented kids often dislike it. <br /><br /><i>The Giving Tree</i> is about “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” Gifted & talented are often told that we must give a lot and take as little as possible.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2492593" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2485316 2024-01-11T10:52:47Z 2024-01-11T10:52:47Z public 0 <a href="https://unherd.com/2024/01/the-labyrinth-of-guy-davenports-mind/">Guy Davenport</a> in a rectangle<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2485316" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2478096 2023-02-04T13:08:16Z 2023-02-04T13:09:21Z public 1 <a href="https://lithub.com/john-barth-deserves-a-wider-audience/">Bring Back John Barth! </a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2478096" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2476377 2022-11-26T13:59:18Z 2022-11-26T13:59:18Z public 1 <a href="https://fivebooks.com/best-books/fantasys-many-uses-brian-attebery/">Brian Attebery explains.</a> [Five Books]<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2476377" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2473998 2022-10-27T10:30:19Z 2022-10-27T10:30:19Z public 1 <a href="https://www.theverge.com/c/23194235/ai-fiction-writing-amazon-kindle-sudowrite-jasper">The strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction</a>, as predicted by Fritz Leiber in <i>The Silver Eggheads</i><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2473998" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2473466 2022-09-20T14:17:54Z 2022-09-20T14:18:19Z public 1 <a href="https://www.tor.com/2022/09/20/a-crash-course-through-the-worlds-of-john-brunner-10-essential-books/">James Davis Nicoll</a> on one of the greats. Leads off with Jad Smith’s essential study and one of my all-time faves (<i>The Stone That Never Came Down</i>). Includes <i>The Traveller in Black</i> and leaves out <i>The Whole Man</i>, but nobody’s perfect.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2473466" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2473181 2022-09-14T10:36:13Z 2022-09-14T10:46:41Z public 0 <a href="https://www.tor.com/2022/09/13/humorous-twists-and-razor-sharp-wit-the-square-root-of-man-by-william-tenn/"><i>The Square Root of Man</i>, by William Tenn</a><br /><br />Thanx to <a href="http://www.tor.com/">Tor.com</a>.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2473181" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2470644 2022-07-18T23:55:06Z 2022-07-18T23:55:06Z public 11 <a href="https://lithub.com/11-literary-classics-we-not-so-secretly-hate/?">11 Classics we hate</a> [LitHub]<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2470644" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2468356 2022-03-01T10:24:39Z 2022-03-01T10:24:39Z public 2 Ada Palmer & Jo Walton discuss <a href="https://uncannymagazine.com/article/the-protagonist-problem/">tapestry novels</a>. [Uncanny Magazine]<br /><br />Thanx to <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/'><b>oursin</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2468356" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2468167 2022-02-02T09:38:46Z 2022-02-02T09:38:46Z public 0 <a href="https://www.ulyssesguide.com/"><i>Ulysses</i> at 100</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2468167" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2462074 2021-11-17T12:58:58Z 2021-11-17T12:58:58Z public 1 I used to think <a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/ferber-edna?">Edna Ferber</a> was a boring mainstream writer. [Jewish Women’s Archive]<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2462074" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2460974 2021-10-13T17:50:16Z 2021-10-13T17:50:16Z public 0 <a href="https://locusmag.com/2021/10/alvaro-zinos-amaro-reviews-dangerous-visions-and-new-worlds-radical-science-fiction-1950-to-1985-by-andrew-nette-iain-mcintyre-eds/?"><i>Dangerous Visions and New Worlds</i></a> [Locus]<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2460974" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2460268 2021-10-05T17:43:36Z 2021-10-05T17:43:36Z public 0 <a href="https://www.tor.com/2021/09/29/celebrating-the-librarians-of-sff/?"> The Librarians of SFF</a><br /><br />Thanx to <a href="http://www.tor.com/">Tor.com</a>.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2460268" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2459893 2021-10-02T15:53:33Z 2021-10-02T15:53:33Z public 2 <a href="https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/02/roz-kaveney-trans-poet/?">Trans poet Roz Kaveney</a> [PinkNews]<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2459893" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2459372 2021-10-01T09:44:50Z 2021-10-01T09:44:50Z public 4 <a href="https://www.tor.com/2021/09/30/a-night-in-the-lonesome-october-is-a-perfectly-tricky-halloween-treat/">Remembering <i>A Night in the Lonesome October</i></a><br /><br />Thanx to <a href="http://www.tor.com/">Tor.com</a>.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2459372" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2458192 2021-09-19T14:40:52Z 2021-09-19T14:40:52Z public 0 <a href="https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/dont-wanna-treat-you-well">James Davis Nicoll</a> remembers <i>Mechasm/The Reproductive System</i><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2458192" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2456469 2021-09-04T09:47:38Z 2021-09-04T09:47:38Z public 6 But I also like “MacArthur Park” and pineapple on pizza. <a href="http://www.fantasticbooks.biz/fantasticbooks/other/9781515424192.html"><i>On Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren</i></a><br /><br />Thanx to <a href="http://file770.com//">File 770</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2456469" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2455465 2021-08-15T17:30:43Z 2021-08-15T17:30:43Z public 0 <a href="https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/science-fiction-was-my-mid-life-crisis?">SF as midlife crisis</a> [Ted Gioia]<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2455465" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2454934 2021-08-13T10:04:18Z 2021-08-13T10:04:34Z public 0 <a href="https://www.tor.com/2021/08/12/murder-books-101-the-rise-of-true-crime-from-highbrow-to-cash-cow/">The true crime book</a> <br /><br />Thanx to <a href="http://www.tor.com/">Tor.com</a>.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2454934" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2454715 2021-08-12T10:02:37Z 2021-08-12T10:02:37Z public 0 <a href="https://lithub.com/in-praise-of-the-info-dump-a-literary-case-for-hard-science-fiction/?">Greg Egan</a> does it right. [LitHub]<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2454715" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2453580 2021-07-22T16:35:25Z 2021-07-22T16:35:25Z public 2 <a href="https://www.tor.com/2021/07/22/theres-no-wrong-way-to-read-a-book/"> There Is No Wrong Way to Read a Book</a><br /><br />Thanx to <a href="http://www.tor.com/">Tor.com</a>.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2453580" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2452910 2021-07-09T21:02:51Z 2021-07-09T21:05:25Z public 1 In the hospital I caught up with four new books I really wanted to see:<br /><br />* Cosmic Trigger; The Play was delightful and reminded me that I am not all that’s left of the Illuminatus! Nut Cult<br /><br />* The Free World is the great Louis Menand taking us through the years I grew up in, with the Big Beat and the Beat Generation and even showing that Jackson Pollock was not doing something a five-year-old could do (but you still don’t have to like it).<br /><br />* F. Brett Cox continues the awesome Illinois Modern Masters of Science Fiction series with Roger Zelazny, from the promise of those little Ace books, through Isle of the Dead and Doorways in the Sand down to the mechanical reproduction of forever Amber to the final triumph at the Lonesome October<br /><br />* Nothing Is Wrong and This Is Why is all that good stuff we’ve been reading by Alexandra Petri: Chris Christie has no mouth and must scream, the crisis actor’s protest, male authors describe men right, the defense of Confederate statues by someone who really truly isn’t a pigeon, and more more more<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2452910" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2449788 2021-05-23T10:20:04Z 2021-05-23T10:20:04Z public 0 <a href="http://www.rawillumination.net/2021/05/roger-zelazny-just-thought-id-write.html">Roger Zelazny</a> writes a few stories.<br /><br />Thanx to <a href="http://rawillumination.blogspot.com/">RAW Illumination</a>.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2449788" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2449388 2021-05-11T11:18:12Z 2021-05-11T11:27:36Z public 0 <a href="https://locusmag.com/2021/05/alvaro-zinos-amaro-reviews-michael-bishop-and-the-persistence-of-wonder-by-joe-sanders/">Joe Sanders on Michael Bishop</a> [Locus]<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2449388" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2445431 2021-04-14T09:52:59Z 2021-04-14T09:52:59Z public 0 <a href="https://www.tor.com/2021/04/13/a-brief-guide-to-the-extraordinary-fiction-of-vonda-n-mcintyre/">Remembering Vonda N. McIntyre</a><br /><br />Thanx to <a href="http://www.tor.com/">Tor.com</a>.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2445431" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments