03-12-10: Commentary : Karl Marlantes Scales the 'Matterhorn' : World-Building in the Past

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A Conversation with Thomas Frank: Playing Monopoly & Revising History

03-11-10: Commentary : Otto Penzler Scans 'The Lineup' : Behind Imaginary Badges

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Lou Anders, Pyr at Five, and DragonCon : Vampire Fang Installation Nightmares

03-10-10: Commentary : Thomas Ligotti Reveals 'The Conspiracy Against the Human Race' : MALIGNANTLY USELESS, From Arthur Schopenhauer to Peter Zappfe

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2010 Interview With Rusty Morrison and Ken Keegan : OmniDawn Rises

03-09-10: Commentary : Paul McHugh Meets 'Deadlines' : Murdering the California Coast

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2010 Interview with Paul McHugh : "..the strengths of good writing go all the way, across all the genres..."

03-08-10: Commentary : Joe Hill Grows 'Horns' : Devil and Detail

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2010 Interview with Joe Hill : "Eventually, the wicked and the unworthy will get their just desserts on the business end of the Devil's pitchfork."

03-05-10: Commentary : Henry Porter Calls 'The Bell Ringers' : : It Takes The Village

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Four Books With Alan Cheuse : Thrillers! : Henry Porter, The Bell Ringers; Keith Thomson, Once a Spy; Jo Nesbo, The Devil's Star; Hennig Mankel, The Man From Beijing

03-04-10: Commentary : Jo NesbØ Earns 'The Devil's Star' : Rewind

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2010 Interview with Victoria Blake : The View from the Underland

03-03-10: Commentary : Underland Press and Joe R. Lansdale Present 'The Complete Drive In' : Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2010 Interview with Joe R. Lansdale : Riding the Drive In Omnibus

03-02-10: Commentary : Stephen S. Hall Exhibits 'Wisdom' : From Philosophy to Neuroscience

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Laurie R. King, Jedediah Berry and Terry Bisson at SF in SF : Beyond BoucherCon

03-01-10: Commentary : Adam Haslett Invests With 'Union Atlantic' : Abstract Power Abstracts Absolutely

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2010 Interview With Adam Haslett : "With her, and with each character, how does the rhythm create a kind of musical argument?"

02-26-10: Commentary : Dan Simmons Heads for the 'Black Hills' : Unstuck in Life

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2010 Interview with Dan Simmons : "I just loved being in Wilkie's drug-soaked, lying conniving mind."

02-25-10: Commentary : Henning Mankel Introduces 'The Man from Beijing' : Standalone Frozen

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2010 Interview with Keith Thomson : "They hate the word 'drone,' but they're losing that battle."

02-24-10: Commentary : Chaz Brenchley Stars as Daniel Fox in 'Dragon in Chains' and 'Jade Man's Skin' : Fantasy and Feudal China

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Laurie R. King Interviewed at SF in SF, February 13, 2010 : "Is this one fiction? Is that one fiction?"

02-23-10: Commentary : Adam Haslett Knows 'You Are No Stranger Here' : Stories from Strangers' Shoes

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Jedediah Berry Interviewed at SF in SF, February 13, 2010 : "...being at Small Beer has actually introduced whole worlds to me ..."

02-22-10: Commentary : Graeme Gibson's 'The Bedside Book of Birds' and 'The Bedside Book of Beasts' : A Feast for Your Mind, Your Eyes and Your Mind's Eye

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Graeme Gibson : "Our common humanity, our common culture, will help make the connections."

02-19-10: Commentary : Ralph Waldo Ellison 'Three Days Before the Shooting ...' : One Book, Many Stories

Agony Column Podcast News Report : John Callahan and Adam Bradley and 'Three Days before the Shooting' : "I've moved through the phases of my own life, and I find those phases mirrored in the characters of this novel." — John Callahan "...capable of brilliance, eloquence and power; that's how I understand the second novel, as we see it in Three Days Before the Shooting, and that's certainly how I understand, and I think how Ellison understood, America." — Adam Bradley

02-18-10: Commentary : George Mann Scares Up 'The Ghosts of Manhattan' : Hard Core Pulp Action

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Speaking Frankly With Thomas Frank : From Tea to Shining Tea : "When I think about what I'm saying, it's so depressing..."

02-17-10: Commentary : Thomas More, Clarence Miller and 'Utopia' : Politics, Satire, Fantasy

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Laurie R. King Reads at SF in SF on February 13, 2010 : "...as real as Sherlock Holmes..."

02-16-10: Commentary : Patrick Lee Steps Through 'The Breach' : American Cheese Done Right

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Jedediah Berry Reads at SF in SF on February 13, 2010 : The Manual of Detection

02-15-10: Commentary : 'Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded' by John Scalzi : A Decade of Whatever

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2010 Interview with Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni : "I have to work through the novel and then it comes to me, how it's going to end."

02-12-10: Commentary : Stephanie Merritt Becomes S. J. Parris : 'Heresy'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2010 Interview With Tom Ammiano : : "It just looks like there's a perfect storm of political will..."

02-11-10: Commentary : Max Watman 'Chasing the White Dog' : Home-Made Hooch and Rebellion

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2010 Interview With Sam Farr : : "The money came from Washington, but the uses for that money came from the local community."

02-10-10: Commentary : Anne Lamott Spots 'Imperfect Birds' : The Ties That Unbind

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Speaking Frankly: Thomas Frank on Re-Populism and Re-Launching The Baffler : "I have never seen 'populist backlash in a headline before."

02-09-10: Commentary : Douglas Clegg Returns to 'Neverland' : Is 1980's Horror Returning from the Grave?

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with David Drake, Part 2 / Complete : "I didn't have governor ... that is ... anything, endgame, was me killing somebody."

02-08-10: Commentary : David Louis Edelman Completes Jump 225 : 'Geosynchron'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with David Drake, Part 1 : "I'm still screwed up, but not nearly as badly as I was."

02-05-10: Commentary : DC Pierson is 'The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To' : The Insomnia Vibe

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Three Books with Alan Cheuse: Too Much Money, Dominick Dunne; The Privileges, Jonathan Dee; Adam Haslett, Union Atlantic; The Forty Rules of Love, Elif Shafak; Wild Child, T. C. Boyle

02-04-10: Commentary : David Grann and 'The Devil and Sherlock Holmes' : An Obsession with Obsession

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2010 Interview with Josh Sundquist : "It was a really amazing testament to the power of small-town America and to the power of organized religion at its best."

02-03-10: Commentary : James Rollins Unleashes 'The Altar of Eden' : Monsters at the Zoo

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Remembering Kage Baker : The View from Spyglass Park

02-02-10: Commentary : Michael Shea Hires 'The Extra' : The Last Job You Ever Have

Agony Column Podcast News Report : SF in SF, January 16, 2010 : A Panel Discussion with Terry Bisson, Jeff Carlson and Nancy Etchemendy

02-01-10: Commentary : 'He Walked Among Us' : Cassandra, John Titor and Norman Spinrad

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2010 Interview with Charlie Huston : "The prospect of things becoming deeply unhinged seemed very, very immediate"

01-29-10: Commentary : Henghis Hapthorn Meets 'Hespira' : Matthew Hughes Devolves the Universe

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2010 Interview with Jeff Brown : "I reached the point where I was just kind of done with me."

01-28-10: Commentary : A Review of 'Sleepless' by Charlie Huston : A Father Fears the Future

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Alan Beatts of Borderlands Books : Opening the Borderlands Café and the iPad

01-27-10: Commentary : Glen Cook Walks the 'Shadowline' : Every Old (Science Fiction) Thing is New (Space Opera) Again

Agony Column Podcast News Report : An Interview with Jeff Carlson at SF in SF on January 16, 2010 : "The bad guys never consider themselves the bad guys..."

01-26-10: Commentary : Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni Finds 'One Amazing Thing' : Trapping the Storytellers

Agony Column Podcast News Report : An Interview with Nancy Etchemendy at SF in SF on January 16, 2010 : "We told a lot of stories in the family."

01-25-10: Commentary : Elizabeth Bear and 'Bone and Jewel Creatures' : From Obscurity to Ubiquity

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2010 Interview with Jasper Fforde : "Proper novelling for a change.."

01-22-10: Commentary : 'Queen Victoria, Demon Hunter' by "A. E. Moorat" : Trash-Litifying National Treasures

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Thomas Frank : Bringing Back Glass-Steagall and the Price of Gold

01-21-10: Commentary : Keith Thomson is 'Once A Spy' : Father Knows Best

Agony Column Podcast News Report : SF in SF, January 16, 2010 : Nancy Etchemendy Reads from "Honey in the Wound"

01-20-10: Commentary : Reading the Newspaper : Why the San Francisco Chronicle Gets My Money

Agony Column Podcast News Report : SF in SF, January 16, 2010 : Jeff Carlson Reads from 'Plague Year'

01-19-10: Commentary : Gene Wolfe Moves into 'The Sorcerer's House' : Magical Surrealism

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Three Books with Alan Cheuse : Don Delillo: 'Point Omega,' Robert Stone: 'Fun With Problems,' Douglas Preston: 'Impact'

01-18-10: Commentary : George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois Bring On 'Warriors' : An Anthology Waiting to Happen

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Graham Joyce : "There is a battle between gravity and levity."

01-15-10: Commentary : Kentaro Kobayashi Unleashes 'Appetizer Rex' : Food + Beer

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Poetry Santa Cruz — James Scully Reads Capitola Book Café : Line Break

01-14-10: Commentary : Terry Dowling Sings of 'Amberjack' : Song Cycle and Short Stories

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Poetry Santa Cruz — Adrienne Rich Reads Capitola Book Café : Battery-Powered Adventures in PA

01-13-10: Commentary : The Fortean Times : As Weird As Life

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Jeremy Lassen Looks to the Future : Are We There Yet?

01-12-10: Commentary : Gary Paulsen Follows the 'Woods Runner' : Persistence of Vision

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2010 Interview With Gary Paulsen : Man in the Wilderness

01-11-10: Commentary : Michael Aronovitz Experiences 'Seven Deadly Pleasures' : Leaving Sin Behind

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with S. T. Joshi : "We were essentially academic outsiders"

01-08-10: Commentary : Catherynne M. Valente is 'Under in the Mere' : Prose, Poetry and Transcendence

Agony Column Podcast News Report : NPR Morning Edition Report: Authors Find Fertile Mix Of Science And Religion

01-07-10: Commentary : Howard Blum is Struck by 'American Lightning': Detectives, Defenders and Directors

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Thomas Frank and the Populists of the GOP : "The Demented Logic of American Politics"

01-06-10: Commentary : John Burdett Meets 'The Godfather of Kathmandu'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Lou Anders Looks Ahead : The Very Near Future of Science Fiction

01-05-10: Commentary : David Denby Comes Out Swinging Against 'Snark'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview With Michael Anissimov

01-04-10: Commentary : A Review of 'Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron' by Jasper Fforde : Pass the Red, Please

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Brian Evenson

12-30-09: Commentary : Belinda Bauer Unearths 'Blacklands' : Apt Pupils

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Wrapping up 2009 With Jeremy Lassen : In Time's Ten Best

12-29-09: Commentary : Alta Ifland's 'Elegy for a Fabulous World' : Melting the 'Voice of Ice'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : The Chat Before Christmas With Thomas Frank, December 24, 2009

12-28-09: Commentary : A Review of Indigo Springs by Alyx Dellamonica : Start With the Magic

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Jeffrey Ford at the World Fantasy Convention

12-23-09: Commentary : World Fantasy Convention Interview with Ann VanderMeer

Agony Column Podcast News Report : The Reality Behind Fantasy : NPR Report on Jeff and Ann VanderMeer

12-22-09: Commentary : Jasper Fforde Sees in 'Shades of Grey' : Black and White in Colour

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview With Alyx Dellamonica : "Magic calls to magic"

12-21-09: Commentary : Ghosts of the Cities : Nightlife of the Living and Dead

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 World Fantasy Convention Interview with Garth Nix : "I learned to write, as many authors do, by reading."

12-17-09: Commentary : World Fantasy Convention Interview with Jeff VanderMeer

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Ann and Jeff VanderMeer at the World Fantasy Convention

12-16-09: Commentary : Philip K. Dick is Ubiquitous : Why 'Ubik' is the One

Agony Column Podcast News Report : World Fantasy Convention: Canonizing the Fantastic

12-15-09: Commentary : Jim Nisbet Takes You on a 'Windward Passage' : Catching Up

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Thomas Frank on Republican Purity Tests : Return or Re-Run of the Montagnards

12-14-09: Commentary : A Review of 'Under the Dome' by Stephen King : Under the Tome

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Connie Willis Interviewed at the 2009 World Fantasy Convention

12-11-09: Commentary : Arturo Pérez-Reverte Revisits 'The Club Dumas' : The Subterranean Substance

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A Conversation with Lou Anders : New Fantasy Triangle, Steampunk and Illuxcon II

12-10-09: Commentary : Andrew Porter Explains 'The Theory of Light and Matter' : Pilfered and Prize-Winning

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Mark Richardson's 'Zen and Now' : The Making of a First Book

12-09-09: Commentary : Return to Nowhere in 'Interfictions 2' : Falling Between the Cracks Into Eternity

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Three Books With Alan Cheuse : Michael Crichton Retrospective

12-08-09: Commentary : William Horwood Reveals 'Hyddenworld' : Fantasy and the War to Write It

Agony Column Podcast News Report : World Fantasy Convention Panel Podcast : Non-Conciliatory Fantasy

12-07-09: Commentary : Breaking the Bread Baking Barrier : Five, Well Maybe Fifteen Minutes Per Day

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Jeff Herzberg and Zoe Francois : The Kitchen Sink

12-03-09: Commentary : World Fantasy Convention Interview with Zoran Zivkovic : "Reading. A Lot of reading."

Agony Column Podcast News Report : SF in SF Panel Discussion with S. G. Browne, Jeff VanderMeer and Terry Bisson, November 14, 2009

12-02-09: Commentary : High Times for High Fantasy : Kage Baker and Alex Bledsoe Hold High the Swords

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Tears of a Clown : Thomas Frank Unbuilds Glen Beck

12-01-09: Commentary : 'The Talisman' Adapted : Seeing the Eyes We Have Only Seen Through

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Jeff VanderMeer Reads at SF in SF : The Professional Cockroach and other Tales of Terror

11-30-09: Commentary : Jorge Luis Borges 'A Universal History of Infamy' : Back to Basics

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Jeff and Ann VanderMeer

11-24-09: Commentary : Joe Kelly and Deigo Greco Unleash 'Bad Dog' : Comic Books, 1-2-3

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Scott "SG" Browne Interviewed at SF in SF : "It gives me the opportunity to meet some of my influences"

11-23-09: Commentary : One Step Closer to 'A Dark Matter' : Peter Straub's Publisher Re-Mix

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Peter Straub : "Irrationality has a great role in American life"

11-20-09: Commentary : Just the Reportage in Fortean Times : All the Weird History Sans the Potboiler Plots

Agony Column Podcast News Report : World Fantasy Convention Panel Podcast : Invention Versus Tradition

11-19-09: Commentary : Re-Issues and Reasons to Re-Read : Thomas Ligotti's 'Songs of a Dead Dreamer'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Scott Browne Reads at SF in SF : "If you've never..."

11-18-09: Commentary : Patricia T. O'Conner Knows That 'Woe Is I' : 'The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : "Noird" : A 2009 Report on Crime Fiction in Imaginary Cities

11-17-09: Commentary : A. M. Dellamonica Leaves 'Indigo Springs' : Magic Matters

Agony Column Podcast News Report : World Fantasy Convention Podcast : Poetry of the Fantastic

11-16-09: Commentary : Brian Lumley Infects 'The Plague Bearer' : Begin the Between

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview With Kamala Harris : Smart on Crime

11-13-09: Commentary : The World Goes Weird with Daryl Gregory and Alan Deniro : From 'The Devil's Alphabet' to 'Total Oblivion more or less'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Donald Sidney-Fryer Reads at World Fantasy Convention, 2009 : Clark Ashton Smith and the California Romantics

11-12-09: Commentary : Books Worth Re-Reading, Ramsey Campbell Edition : 'Cold Print' by Scream/Press

Agony Column Podcast News Report : FBI Agent George Fong at Book Passage Mystery Conference

11-11-09: Commentary : World Fantasy Convention Interview with Michael Swanwick

Agony Column Podcast News Report : World Fantasy Convention The Google Books Settlement [Death] Panel : "I can't claim it—even though I wrote it."

11-10-09: Commentary : Beyond 'The Box' With Richard Matheson : Ticking Time Bombs of Fiction

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Three Books with Alan Cheuse

11-09-09: Commentary : A Review of 'Homer & Langley' by E. L. Doctorow : The Eloquent Vision of the Blind

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with E. L. Doctorow : "They opted out — which is not that unusual an American phenomenon"

11-06-09: Commentary : Helen Merrick Reveals 'The Secret Feminist Cabal' : 'A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : 2009 World Fantasy Convention Panel Podcast : "We Now Bring You This Discussion, Already in Progress"

11-05-09: Commentary : Dean Koontz is 'Breathless' : At This 'Relentless' Pace, Who Can Blame Him?

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Kim Stanley Robinson Interviewed at SF in SF on October 17, 2009

11-04-09: Commentary : Charlie Huston is 'Sleepless' : Dreamers, Dealers and Pharma

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Eric Simons Interviewed at SF in SF : "It is chaotic and wild and crazy."

11-03-09: Commentary : A Quick Look at the 2009 World Fantasy Convention : Slick, Smart and Entertaining

Agony Column Podcast News Report : SF in SF Panel Discussion Featuring Eric Simons, Kim Stanley Robinson and Terry Bisson on October 17, 2009

11-02-09: Commentary : Graham Joyce Knows 'How to Make Friends With Demons' : Personal and Infernal

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview With David Lubar : "I started out knowing one thing: my main character was somehow going to become a zombie."

10-30-09: Commentary : Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett Bolt Together 'Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel' : Photoshopping History, plus World Fantasy Convention Note

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Kim Stanley Robinson Reads at SF in SF on October 17, 2009 : "The Lucky Strike"

10-29-09: Commentary : Books worth Re-Reading, Stanislaw Lem Edition, Volume 1: 'A Perfect Vacuum'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Eric Simons Follows in Darwin's Footsteps at SF in SF November 17, 2009 : "She tried to talk me into a nice plane ride.."

10-28-09: Commentary : Jeff VanderMeer (2) Goes Underland for 'Finch' : Another Dream of Ambergris

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Jeremy Lassen Covers 'Eclipse 3' and the WFC : No, Not Who F-ing Cares

10-27-09: Commentary : Jeff VanderMeer on the 'Booklife' : Surviving a Desire to Write

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Thomas Frank's Labor and Paranoia : "This is something that drives a certain segment of our society absolutely crazy..."

10-26-09: Commentary : Cory Doctorow and 'Makers' : Cover Meme of the Week

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with E Van Lowe : "When you're writing for screen or TV, you're really only writing the cinematic."

10-23-09: Commentary : Jonathan Lethem Experiences 'Chronic City' : Synchronicity Without Sin

Agony Column Podcast News Report : An Interview with Claire Light at SF in SF / Litquake on October 10, 2009 : "The way that writers of color use science fiction is very different..."

10-22-09: Commentary : Kamala D. Harris Hopes We're 'Smart on Crime' : Rocking the Crime Pyramid

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Marta Acosta Interviewed at SF in SF / Litquake on October 10, 2009 : "I think you can connect more with people when you make them laugh..."

10-21-09: Commentary : Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. 'Blood Will Have Its Season' : Short Bursts of Fury

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Jewell Gomez at SF in SF / Litquake on October 10, 2009 : "So first, I decided, OK, I'll get rid of the Christian mythology ...."

10-20-09: Commentary : Kumiko Ibaraki 'The Worry Free Bakery' : Low Fat Cooking That Is Not a Waste of Time and Ingredients

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Saturday, October 10, 2009 SF in SF / Litquake Panel : Jewell Gomez, Marta Acosta, and Claire Light Moderated by Terry Bisson

10-19-09: Commentary : Mark Lamster Unveils 'Master of Shadows' : The Secret Diplomatic Career of Peter Paul Rubens

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Max Brooks: "Every day is a fight, you've got to get up and you've got to feel optimistic."

10-16-09: Commentary : Michael Keller and Nicole Rager Fuller Change the Book the Changed the World : Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' — A Graphic Adaptation

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Marta Acosta Reads at SF in SF vs Litquake : 'Shadow Girl of Birchgrove'

10-15-09: Commentary : Dean Francis Alfar and Joseph F. Nacino Chart The Farthest Shore : Second World Fantasy from the Philippines

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Jewell Gomez Reads at SF in SF vs Litquake : Octavia Butler and 'The Gina Stories'

10-14-09: Commentary : Kit Whitfield and The Fortean Times Ride the Next Wave of Genre Fiction : Mermaids 'In Great Waters'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Claire Light Reads at SF in SF vs Litquake : Carl Brandon and "Pigs in Space"

10-13-09: Commentary : Kurt Vonnegut Says 'Look at the Birdie' : Unpublished Stories, Unstuck in Time

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Three Books With Alan Cheuse

10-12-09: Commentary : Taylor Branch Unspools 'The Clinton Tapes' : 'Wrestling History With the President'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Margaret Atwood : Space Squids and Talking Cabbages

10-09-09: Commentary : Kentaro Kobayashi Builds a 'Veggie Haven' : Recipes Even a Carnivore Can Enjoy

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Thomas Frank Unleashes The Predator State : Consuming the Consumer

10-08-09: Commentary : Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam : Paperback Packaging

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Laurie R. King at the Book Passage Mystery Conference : Twelve Rules for Frivolous Fiction

10-07-09: Commentary : A Review of 'The Case for God' by Karen Armstrong : Going Against the Grain

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Debbie Sharp on Robinson Jeffers and the Robinson Jeffers Fall Festival : The Edge of the Literary World

10-06-09: Commentary : Cherie Priest Unleashes 'Boneshaker' : The Zombie Steampunk Continuum

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Susan Henderson at Squaw Valley : "The stories were after me ...."

10-05-09: Commentary : Peter Richardson Finds 'A Bomb in Every Issue' : 'How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Peter Richardson : "They knew to be successful, they had to make waves."

10-02-09: Commentary : Two True : 'Tokyo Vice' by Jake Adelstein and 'The Snakehead' by Patrick Radden Keefe

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Wrapping Up the World with Thomas Frank

10-01-09: Commentary : Pyr Books Takes 'Desolation Road' : Ian McDonald's First Novel Re-Issued

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview With Richard E. Cytowic, M.D. : 'Wednesday is Indigo Blue'

09-30-09: Commentary : Eoin Colfer Coughs Up Eric-the-Half-A-Book : 'And Another Thing...'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Nick Douglas : "Some of the people in this book are cashiers, college students, homemakers, and they can all be as funny for one sentence as Shakespeare or Dorothy Parker."

09-29-09: Commentary : Nick Gevers Edits 'The Book of Dreams' : Silverberg, Shepard, Lake, Baker and Ford

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Jacqueline Winspear: "It's heartbreaking; you see photographs of this young lad, he's 13 and he's going off to war..."

09-28-09: Commentary : Mario Guslandi Reviews 'The Witnesses Are Gone' by Joel Lane : Film and Nothing

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview With Karen Armstrong : "At the center of religious life, for all these faiths, was compassion."

09-25-09: Commentary : Max Brooks 'Recorded Attacks' : From Postscripts to Poster-Ready

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Kirsten Imani Kasai: Ice Singer

09-24-09: Commentary : Erin Lee Gafill, 'Drinking from a Cold Spring' : Family, Life, Art

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Erin Lee Gafill : "The writing is really a daily approach."

09-23-09: Commentary : Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy : Adams' Ribs : Yet Another Re-Issue, Perhaps Harmless

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Michael Kurland and Nalo Hopkinson "moderated" by Terry Bisson : SF in SF, Saturday, September 12, 2009 : "It's something I try to teach my students, they've all got something they're obsessed with..."

09-22-09: Commentary : Jeffrey Toobin, Otto Penzler & Thomas H. Cook : 'The Best American Crime Reporting 2009'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Nalo Hopkinson Interviewed at SF in SF on Saturday, September 12, 2009: "No matter what you believe, this is miraculous; and we forget."

09-21-09: Commentary : Nick Douglas Dredges for 'Twitter Wit' : <=140

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with S. G. Browne : "Lucio Fulci's Zombi back in 1978, that was actually a double feature with Scanners..."

09-18-09: Commentary : A Review of 'Beat the Reaper' by Josh Bazell : Read the Book

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Michael Kurland Interviewed at SF in SF on September 12, 2009

09-17-09: Commentary : Neil Gaiman Exports 'Odd and the Frost Giants' : Playing Catch-Up

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Jeffrey Gonzalez of the Sanger Paranormal Society : Bigfoot, Triangles and Abductions in Central California

09-16-09: Commentary : Kirsten Imani Kasai Sings an 'Ice Song' : One Step to the Left

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Nalo Hopkinson Reads at SF in SF on September 12, 2009 : Scary Monsters and Super-Creeps

09-15-09: Commentary : Sarah Langan Opens 'Audrey's Door' : The House of Tindalos

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Michael Kurland Reads at SF in SF on September 12, 2009 : Moriarty Returns, After An Introduction

09-14-09: Commentary : Monday Miscellany : The Reading Life

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Kage Baker — The View From Spyglass Park

09-11-09: Commentary : Paul McAuley Fights 'The Quiet War' : Return or Rebirth?

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Interview With Tim Maleeny : "I was always reading."

09-10-09: Commentary : Karen Armstrong Makes 'The Case for God' : In What Do We Trust

Agony Column Podcast News Report : SF in SF Panel Featuring Elizabeth Lynn, Marta Randall and Terry Bisson

09-09-09: Commentary : Josh Bazell Manages to 'Beat the Reaper' : Better Late Than Never

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Elizabeth Lynn Interviewed at SF in SF on August 22, 2009

09-08-09: Commentary : A Review of 'Breathers' by S. G. Browne : Breaking Through the Lifeist Barrier

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Marta Randall Interviewed at SF in SF on August 22, 2009

09-07-09: Commentary : Fran Gage Welcomes 'The New American Olive Oil' : What You Need to Know, Plus Recipes

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview With Fran Gage

09-04-09: Commentary : 'There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby' : From Russia, With Fear by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Agony Column Podcast News Report : F&SF 60 Years: The Interview Marathon, Part Three: Gordon Van Gelder, Ellen Klages, Gene Wolfe, Charles de Lint

09-03-09: Commentary : Pyr Imports 'Dawnthief' : Domestic Editions of Chronicles of the Raven

Agony Column Podcast News Report : F&SF 60 Years: The Interview Marathon, Part Two : Jeffrey Ford, John Kessel and Delia Sherman

09-02-09: Commentary : Gary Gibson's 'Nova War' : Trader in What?

Agony Column Podcast News Report : F&SF 60 Years: The Interview Marathon, Part One : Peter S. Beagle, Karen Joy Fowler, Michael Swanwick, and M. Rickert

09-01-09: Commentary : Boom Times for Serious Fantasy : David Anthony Durham and Kate Elliott

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A Conversation with Congressman Sam Farr, (D-Carmel, CA) : The Health Care Customer's Bill of Rights — "I'm for the single payer."

08-31-09: Commentary : Joey Comeau is 'Overqualified' : Dear Sir, With Bile

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview With Lev Grossman

08-28-09: Commentary : 'Sum' News : Recovering Your Afterlives

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Three Books With Alan Cheuse : Fall Preview

08-27-09: Commentary : Mark Bittner Knows 'How to Cook Everything' : Joy, Cooking and Books

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Marta Randall Reads at SF in SF on August 22, 2009 : 'The Dark Boy'

08-26-09: Commentary : Stephen Elliott Opens 'The Adderall Diaries' : Hosing Down the Driveway

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Elizabeth Lynn Reads at SF in SF on August 22, 2009 : 'Dragon's Treasure'

08-25-09: Commentary : Dan Chaon Will 'Await Your Reply' : Who Are You?

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Gill Dennis at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Conference: "There are too many ifs in that sentence."

08-24-09: Commentary : A Review of 'The Magicians' by Lev Grossman : Word Magic

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with David Corbett : "Crime is all about the individual putting himself above society."

08-21-09: Commentary : A Review of 'Inherent Vice' by Thomas Pynchon : Days of Future Passed

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Jeremy Lassen Visits Worldcon : Nights and Days of Night Shade

08-20-09: Commentary : Neal Asher Sets Sail with 'Orbus' : Old Captains Die Hard — and Often

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Lou Anders, Conventions, and the Lost World : "..they come, and they stay in the bar and nobody knows who they are..."

08-19-09: Commentary : Simon R. Green Hunts 'The Spy Who Haunted Me' : A Tangled Web We Weave

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Live Interview With Alan Cheuse : "This reinforced their vision of the world as filled with many spirits"

08-18-09: Commentary : Paolo Bacigalupi Clocks 'The Windup Girl' : The Future is an Ecosystem

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Interview With Max Byrd : "...coming to Paris from provincial, colonial Virginia absolutely changed Jefferson..."

08-14-09: Commentary :'American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps' : Young Nations Scare Easily

Agony Column Podcast News Report : SF in SF Panel from July 25, 2009 — Kage Baker and Madeleine Robins

08-13-09: Commentary : Adam Rapp and George O'Connor Break Out the 'Ball Peen Hammer' : Beauty and the Bleak

Agony Column Podcast News Report : SF in SF, July 25, 2009 — A Conversation with Kage Baker : Novella, Novel and Steampunk

08-12-09: Commentary : Bill Wasik 'And Then There's This' : 'How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : SF in SF, July 25, 2009 — A Conversation with Madeleine Robins : History in the Un-Making

08-11-09: Commentary : Lucius Shepard Weighs 'The Taborin Scale' : Return to the Dragon Griaule

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview With Ray Garton : "I write horror because I was a Seventh Day Adventist, because in the Seventh Day Adventist cult, you're taught to fear"

08-07-09: Commentary : A Trifecta of Urban Fantasy : Robson, Day and Lamplighter

Agony Column Podcast New Report : Squaw Valley Community of Writers Conference Panel : Narrative Voice

08-06-09: Commentary : Some Final Thoughts On the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Conference : Places to Stay, Things to Do

Agony Column Podcast New Report : A 2009 Interview With Lisa Alvarez : "I began to see art as a kind of activism"

08-05-09: Commentary : Squaw Valley Community of Writer's Conference, Day 2 : Community and Craft

Agony Column Podcast New Report : Squaw Valley Community of Writer's Conference : A Tribute to James D. Houston, 1933-2009

08-04-09: Commentary : Squaw Valley Community of Writer's Conference : Panels, Readings, Tributes

Agony Column Podcast New Report : Squaw Valley Community of Writer's Conference 40th Anniversary Celebration

08-03-09: Commentary : A Review of 'Eye of the Whale' by Douglas Carlton Abrams

Agony Column Podcast New Report : A 2009 Interview With Douglas Carlton Abrams : Look Deep into the 'Eye of the Whale'

07-31-09: Commentary : Get On Board the 'Kitchen Express' with Mark Bittman : Brilliant, Brief and Easy Recipes for All Seasons

Agony Column Podcast New Report : Three Books with Alan Cheuse : Joyce Carol Oates, Little Bird of Heaven : Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice : David Eagleman, Sum : Special Guest Star: Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

07-30-09: Commentary : 'Never Slow Dance With A Zombie' and 'My Rotten Life' : Quick, Somebody Write a Thick-As-A-Brick Teen-Zombies-in-Love Series!

Agony Column Podcast New Report : A 2009 Interview with Tony Broadbent — Book Passage Mystery Conference : "You cannot deny history — it's just that in the West, history ended last week"

07-29-09: Commentary : Go 'Starcombing' With David Langford : New Hope for the Dead

Agony Column Podcast New Report : Madeleine Robins Reads Sarah Tolerance : Hard-Boiled Alternate Regency Mystery

07-28-09: Commentary : Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. Unveils 'The Unknown Lovecraft' : Essays as Biography

Agony Column Podcast New Report : Kage Baker Reads from 'The Hotel in the Sand' : A Bedtime Story That Keeps You Awake

07-27-09: Commentary : A Review of 'Bonk : The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex' by Mary Roach: Sexstalt

Agony Column Podcast New Report : A 2009 Interview with Mary Roach : "...Masters and Johnson did a quite amazing experiment trying to find out whether upsuck was legitimate; they were upsuck skeptics..."

07-24-09: Commentary : Ray Bradbury's 'The Martian Chronicles: The Complete Edition' : One Giant Leap for Book Readers

Agony Column Podcast New Report : ThreeTwo Books with Alan Cheuse : Daniel Silva, 'The Defector', Colum McCann, 'Let The Great World Spin'

07-22-09: Commentary : Ray Garton is 'Bestial' : At His Leisure

Agony Column Podcast New Report : A 2009 Interview with Literary Agent Kimberly Cameron

07-21-09: Commentary : Take 'Flight 6' : Visionary Graphic Fiction

Agony Column Podcast New Report : Book Passage Mystery Conference : Overview Interview with Karen West and Elaine Petrocelli

07-20-09: Commentary : A Review of 'Where the Dead Lay' by David Levien : Rough, polished and powerful

Agony Column Podcast New Report : A 2009 Interview with Simon Rich : "A lot of my favorite comedy writers actually write horror"

07-17-09: Commentary : Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco : Literature: Craft and Voice: Drama

Agony Column Podcast New Report : Alan Cheuse on Writing the Textbook: Drama

07-16-09: Commentary : Scott Rosenberg Says 'Say Everything' and Chris Anderson is 'Free' : Two From the Web

Agony Column Podcast New Report : A 2009 Phone Interview with Warren Fahy : "Fun" and 'Fragment'

07-15-09: Commentary : Charles Stross Goes 'Wireless' : Message for Bunker Dwellers

Agony Column Podcast New Report : A Conversation with Jeremy Lassen of Night Shade Books : The Independent Press and E-Books; Jay Lake's Latest; Remembering Charles Brown

07-14-09: Commentary : Novella Carpenter Goes To 'Farm City' : 'The Education of An Urban Farmer'

Agony Column Podcast New Report : A 2009 Interview with Novella Carpenter : "Part of farming is having the crop go to somebody else besides you"

07-13-09: Commentary : A Review of 'City of the Sun' by David Levien : The Power of Precision

Agony Column Podcast New Report : A 2009 Interview with Carlos Ruiz Zafón

07-10-09: Commentary : Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco Look at Poetry: Craft and Voice : Canon Fodder

Agony Column Podcast New Report : Alan Cheuse on Writing the Textbook : Poetry (Genre, Non-Fiction, Critical Studies, Poetry)

07-09-09: Commentary : A Review of 'The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power' by Jeff Sharlet : A Secular Pericalypse

Agony Column Podcast New Report : A Conversation with Jeff Sharlet : Secular Twilight

07-08-09: Commentary : Charles de Lint Finally Sees 'Eyes Like Leaves' : When Faerie Fights, Readers Win

Agony Column Podcast New Report : Lou Anders in Conversation on SF, Games, and the Fate of Storytelling

07-07-09: Commentary : Independent Presses : Small Books, Big Rewards

Agony Column Podcast New Report : Laurie R. King : Cities of Mystery

07-06-09: Commentary : A Review of 'When You Are Engulfed in Flames' by David Sedaris : A Story At the Heart of Life

Agony Column Podcast New Report : A 2009 Interview with David Sedaris : "Sometimes your life just feels like a story"

07-03-09: Commentary : Literature: Craft & Voice, Volume 1: Fiction : A New Way to Learn Literature

Agony Column Podcast New Report : One Book With Alan Cheuse : Writing the Textbook

07-02-09: Commentary : New and Notable from Night Shade : 'Bar None' by Tim Lebbon and 'The Mall of Cthulhu' by Seamus Cooper

Agony Column Podcast New Report : SF in SF Panel from June 20, 2009 — Pat Murphy, Lisa Goldstein, and Michaela Roessner Hosted by Rick Kleffel : Transformative Literature

07-01-09: Commentary : A Review of 'The Angel's Game' by Carlos Ruiz Zafón : Write to Win

Agony Column Podcast New Report : Michaela Roessner Interviewed at SF in SF on June 20, 2009

06-30-09: Commentary : David Rabe Literary Double : 'The Black Monk' and 'melborP goD ehT'

Agony Column Podcast New Report : Pat Murphy Interviewed at SF in SF on June 20, 2009

06-29-09: Commentary : "C.C." Finlay Is No 'Traitor to the Crown' : A Supernatural Revolution

Agony Column Interview : A 2009 Interview with China Miéville : "I don’t think crime is a realist genre at all"

06-27-09: Commentary : I, Frankenstein : Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Charles Robinson and Peter Ackroyd

Agony Column Interview : A Podcast Frankenstein : Pat Murphy Reads "Clap If You Believe" in 2008 and 2009

06-26-09: Commentary : A Review of Carlos Ruiz Zafón's 'The Shadow of the Wind' : A Memory of Books

Agony Column Interview : Michaela Roessner Reads at SF in SF : Fish Story

06-25-09: Commentary : Joe R. Lansdale Takes a 'Vanilla Ride' : The Books (and Lingerie) We Can't Put Down

Agony Column Interview : Pat Murphy Reads at SF in SF : "Clap If You Believe"

06-23-09: Commentary : A Review of 'The City & The City' by China Miéville : City Limits

Agony Column Interview : Lisa Goldstein Reads at SF in SF : A Family

06-22-09: Commentary : Greer Gilman Stirs 'Cloud & Ashes' : Conjuring Myth With Words

Agony Column Interview : A 2009 Interview with Amy Stewart : "A very poisonous plant, and that is not to say that you should not grow it in your yard"

06-19-09: Commentary : 'Son of Retro Pulp Tales' edited by Joe R. Lansdale and Keith Lansdale : Ellison Not Only Lives, He Writes!

Agony Column Exclusive : (Around) Three Books With Alan Cheuse : 'Every Man Dies Alone' by Hans Fallada and 'The Sleepwalkers' by Hermann Broch

06-18-09: Commentary : Amy Stewart Discovers 'Wicked Plants': The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities' : Deadly Bouquet

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Jeff VanderMeer at Shared Worlds : Speculative Fiction Camp for Teens

06-17-09: Commentary : Charles De Lint and Charles Vess Venture Down 'Medicine Road' : Two of a Perfect Pair

Agony Column Broadcast Radio Show : March 1, 2009: Deborah Grabien, Michael Boatman and Janis Bell

06-16-09: Commentary : Mario Guslandi Reviews 'Madder Mysteries' By Reggie Oliver : Ex Occidente Press New Work from Romania

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Jedediah Berry, Part 2

06-15-09: Commentary : A Review of Jedediah Berry's 'The Manual of Detection' : Dreams of the City

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Jedediah Berry, Part 1: "It also has an interest that goes beyond solving mysteries"

06-13-09: Commentary : Sharpen Your Sensibilities with 'Single Scene Short Stories' : There and Not There

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Alan Cheuse and 'Single Scene Short Stories' : One Book, Many Lessons

06-12-09: Commentary : Helen Oyeyemi Knows 'White is for Witching' : Weirder and Weirder

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Jeremy Lassen And Night Shade Books : Bringing Back Night Shade from the Undead

06-11-09: Commentary : Find Your Travel Muse with Museyon : The World is Your Movie

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Anne Ishii Speaks to Her Museyon : Curating the Travel Guide

06-10-09: Commentary : Kentaro Kobayashi Offers 'Noodle Comfort' : Most-Used New

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Agony Column Broadcast Show from February 22, 2009 : Michael Katakis and Xinran

06-08-09: Commentary : A Review of 'The Strain' by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan : Welcome To Your Nightmares

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Guillermo Del Toro : "They are essentially vermin"

06-05-09: Commentary : Douglas Clegg Takes the Vanguard With Isis : Small Big Press, Big Small Book

Agony Column Podcast News Report : The BEA with Alan Cheuse : The Death of the Book and Other Bodily Parts

06-04-09: Commentary : China Miéville Resides in 'The City & The City' : A Hard-Boiled Imagination

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Richard Kadrey Interviewed at SF in SF on May 16, 2009 : "What I realized I had to do for this character is throw out everything"

06-03-09: Commentary : For Richard Cytowic, M. D. and David M. Eagleman, M. D. 'Wednesday is Indigo Blue' : 'Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A Look at Ramayana from Mount Madonna School : Epics and Students

06-02-09: Commentary : Marjane Satrapi Versus Jim Butcher : Graphic Novels Step Up

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Heather Shaw Interviewed at SF in SF on May 16, 2009 : Flytrap

06-01-09: Commentary : Mark Teppo's 'Lightbreaker' : Cracking the Codex of Souls

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Colson Whitehead : Live at KUSP

05-30-09: Commentary : Brendan Burford is 'Syncopated' : 'An Anthology of Non-Fiction Picto-Essays'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Three Books with Alan Cheuse

05-29-09: Commentary : James O'Neal Peels Back 'The Human Disguise' : SF Noir

Agony Column Podcast News Report : UCSC Students Protest Budget Cuts : Hunger Strike

05-28-09: Commentary : Katha Pollitt Considers 'The Mind-Body Problem' : Old Sonnets and New Poems

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Robert Scheer On Obama and the War : "Who's gonna win the war?"

05-27-09: Commentary : Jean Thompson Suggests 'Do Not Deny Me' : A Common Brilliance

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Terry Bisson, Richard Kadrey and Heather Shaw at SF in SF, May 16, 2009 : Panel Discussion

05-26-09: Commentary : 'Either You're In, Or You're In the Way' by Noah and Logan Miller : Love, Honor and Succeed

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Logan and Noah Miller : "We put our laptop on this greasy dumpster"

05-22-09: Commentary : 'Victor LaValle Plugs Into the 'Big Machine' : The Voice of the World

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Three Books with Alan Cheuse

05-21-09: Commentary : 'Alastair Reynolds Doubles Up : Sub Press vs 'House of Suns'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Will Schwalbe and Cookstr : Smart and Simple

05-20-09: Commentary : 'A Brain Wider Than the Sky' by Andrew Levy : Aura and Triggers

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Heather Shaw Reads at SF in SF on May 16, 2009: "Little M@tch Girl"

05-19-09: Commentary : In Praise of Christopher Fowler : Black Static

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Richard Kadrey Reads at SF in SF on May 16, 2009

05-18-09: Commentary : Mark Arax Ventures 'West of the West' : 'Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview With Mark Arax: "The process of objectivity is becoming subjective"

05-15-09: Commentary : David A. Kessler Announces 'The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Agony Column Podcast News Report : Three Books With Alan Cheuse

05-14-09: Commentary : Subterranean Press Extends 'The Skylark' : Peter Straub, Extended Version

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Neal Coonerty on the Live Oak Redevelopment Project

05-13-09: Commentary : Iron Chef Chen's 'Knockout Chinese' : Vertical Cooks

Agony Column Podcast News Report :The Mountain Community Theater Serves 'Breakfast of Champions' : The Author's Voice Editor

05-12-09: Commentary : Patricia T. O'Conner and Stewart Kellerman Document 'Origins of the Specious' : 'Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language'

Agony Column Podcast News Report :A 2009 Interview With Ginjer Buchanan : Ace Editor

05-11-09: Commentary : A Review of 'The Little Stranger' by Sarah Waters : The Mansion of Dorian Gray

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview with Sarah Waters : "Something very malign"

05-08-09: Commentary : Stephen Baxter Unleashes a 'Flood' : Get Ready for a Flood of Enviro-Disaster Fiction

Agony Column Exclusive Podcast : Alan Cheuse, Three Books : Three Books by James D. Houston

05-07-09: Commentary : Daniel Kalder Glimpses Life Through 'Strange Telescopes' : 'Following the Apocalypse From Moscow to Siberia'

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Peter Beagle Interviewed at SF in SF, Saturday, April 18, 2009 : "The more fantastic a story is, the more I try to ground it."

05-06-09: Commentary : Simon Rich Raises 'Free-Range Chickens' : Thought-Experiments, Humor, and Blasphemous Rumors

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Dick Lupoff Interviewed at SF in SF, Saturday, April 18, 2009 : "The manuscript even disappeared"

05-05-09: Commentary : Richard Kadrey Hangs With 'Sandman Slim' : Hitman from Hell

Agony Column Podcast News Report : SF in SF Panel Discussion with Terry Bisson, Richard Lupoff and Peter Beagle, April 18, 2009

05-04-09: Commentary : Andrea N. Richesin Edits 'Because I Love Her' : Mothers, Daughters and Mirrors

Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2009 Interview With Andrea N. Richesin, Karen Joy Fowler and Ann Marie Feld

04-27-09: Commentary : H. P. Lovecraft's Collected Essays CD ROM: 78.5 MB Into the Future

Agony Columhn Podcast : A 2009 Interview with Mark Rudd : "It was a moment in which people felt a terrible need to do something"

04-28-09: Commentary : Declarations of Independents : Three Books from Independent Publishers

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Mark Rudd at Cal State East Bay, Part 1: "I was kind of on my way down"

04-29-09: Commentary : 'Kill Her Again' With Robert Gregory Browne : Conservation of Suspects

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Mark Rudd at Cal State East Bay, Part 2: "You don't dehumanize the enemy."

04-30-09: Commentary : Jhumpa Lahiri and Kevin Canty : Stories Past and Future

Agony Column Radio Broadcast : Richard Lupoff Reads at SF in SF : "T-Shirts"

05-01-09: Commentary : Follow-Up on Donburi Mania: Test-Driving a Good Cookbook

Agony Column Podcast Feature :Alan Cheuse, Three Books : Amos Oz, 'Rhyming Life and Death,' Elmore Leonard, 'Road Dogs' and Rory Clements 'Martyr'

04-20-09: Commentary : Anneli Rufus and Kristan Lawson Declare 'The Scavenger's Manifesto' : Save the Earth and Money in Style

Agony Columhn Podcast : A 2009 Interview with Anneli Rufus and Kristan Lawson

04-21-09: Commentary : Warren Fahy Discovers the 'Fragment' : All Monsters, All the Time

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Brew Your Own Beer with the Zymurgeeks

04-22-09: Commentary : Sarah Waters Unveils 'The Little Stranger' : Ghosts of Our Own Decisions

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Catching Up with Jeremy Lassen : Why We Love the End of the World

04-23-09: Commentary : 'Cheek by Jowl' With Ursula K. Le Guin : Meta-Reading for Readers, Writers, Young Adults and Fantasy

Agony Column Radio Broadcast : Peter Beagle Reads at SF in SF : "Oakland Dragon Blues"

04-24-09: Commentary : Alex Bledsoe Gets Into a 'Blood Groove' : Re-Animating Vampires (Again, Damn It!)

Agony Column Podcast Feature : Three Books With Alan Cheuse : Three Thillers

04-17-09: Commentary : A Pile of Books : Playing Catch-Up

Agony Columhn Podcast : Alan Cheuse : Three Books

04-16-09: Commentary : Kris Saknussemm Clocks 'Private Midnight' : Hours of the Wolf

Agony Column Podcast News Report : 'Private Midnight' Soundtrack CD : Kris Saknussemm and Clamon

04-15-09: Commentary : Andrew Hudgins and Barry Moser Say 'Shut Up, You're Fine' : Poems for Very, Very Bad Children — and Adults

Agony Column Podcast News Report : Lou Anders on Steampunk, Victoriana and Elizabethan SF

04-14-09: Commentary : Mark Charan Newton Spends 'Nights of Villjamur' : A Whole Wide World

Agony Column Radio Broadcast : Nancy Chen and Sarah Powers : from February 8, 2009

04-13-09: Commentary : Jayanti Tamm Does 'Cartwheels in a Sari' : The "Chosen One" Chooses to Leave

Agony Column Podcast Feature : A 2009 interview with Phil Austin and Nick Danger : "That third eye is real"

04-10-09: Commentary : Two Seconds of Carlos Ruiz Zafón : Better the Second Time Around

Agony Column Podcast Feature : Laurie R. King on Fifteen Years of Bees

04-09-09: Commentary : Gayle Dayton and 'New Blood' : Steampunks in Love

Agony Column Broadcast Radio Show : Mardi Horowitz and Aimee Bender Reading: February 1, 2009

04-08-09: Commentary : Jonathan Barnes Topples 'The Domino Men' : A Victorian Legacy

Agony Column Broadcast Radio Show : Heather Hudson Joins 'The Women and the Waves' : From Surfer to Director

04-07-09: Commentary : Jonathan L. Howard and 'Joahannes Cabal The Necromancer' : Burning Bridges to Hell

Agony Column Broadcast Radio Show : A 2009 Interview With Chris Markowski, Past, Present, Future : Economic Crisis and Opportunity

04-06-09: Commentary : A Week of Steampunk : George Mann Crosses 'The Affinity Bridge'

Agony Column Broadcast Radio Show : A 2009 Interview With Hannah Holmes : "The human has to fret and agonize over this..."