https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/ Arthur D. Hlavaty - Dreamwidth Studios Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:21:05 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios supergee personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/109189/156313 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/ 100 75 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2492593.html Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:21:05 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2492593.html 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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2492593.html reading public 6 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2485316.html Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:52:47 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2485316.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2485316.html reading public 0 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2478096.html Sat, 04 Feb 2023 13:08:16 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2478096.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2478096.html reading public 1 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2476377.html Sat, 26 Nov 2022 13:59:18 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2476377.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2476377.html reading public 1 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2473998.html Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:30:19 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2473998.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2473998.html reading public 1 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2473466.html Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:17:54 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2473466.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2473466.html reading public 1 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2473181.html Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:36:13 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2473181.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2473181.html reading public 0 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2470644.html Mon, 18 Jul 2022 23:55:06 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2470644.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2470644.html reading public 11 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2468356.html Tue, 01 Mar 2022 10:24:39 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2468356.html 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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2468356.html reading public 2 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2468167.html Wed, 02 Feb 2022 09:38:46 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2468167.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2468167.html reading public 0 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2462074.html Wed, 17 Nov 2021 12:58:58 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2462074.html 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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2462074.html reading public 1 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2460974.html Wed, 13 Oct 2021 17:50:16 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2460974.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2460974.html reading public 0 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2460268.html Tue, 05 Oct 2021 17:43:36 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2460268.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2460268.html reading public 0 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2459893.html Sat, 02 Oct 2021 15:53:33 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2459893.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2459893.html reading public 2 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2459372.html Fri, 01 Oct 2021 09:44:50 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2459372.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2459372.html reading public 4 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2458192.html Sun, 19 Sep 2021 14:40:52 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2458192.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2458192.html reading public 0 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2456469.html Sat, 04 Sep 2021 09:47:38 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2456469.html 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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2456469.html reading public 6 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2455465.html Sun, 15 Aug 2021 17:30:43 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2455465.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2455465.html reading public 0 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2454934.html Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:04:18 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2454934.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2454934.html reading public 0 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2454715.html Thu, 12 Aug 2021 10:02:37 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2454715.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2454715.html reading public 0 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2453580.html Thu, 22 Jul 2021 16:35:25 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2453580.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2453580.html reading public 2 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2452910.html Fri, 09 Jul 2021 21:02:51 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2452910.html 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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2452910.html reading public 1 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2449788.html Sun, 23 May 2021 10:20:04 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2449788.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2449788.html reading public 0 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2449388.html Tue, 11 May 2021 11:18:12 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2449388.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2449388.html reading public 0 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2445431.html Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:52:59 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2445431.html <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 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/2445431.html reading public 0