If Ken Lizzi has a quest it is to help infuse a pulp sensibility into 21st Century fiction
April 8, 2018 Remedial Fantasy For the Chronically Lazy: A Top Five List A couple of weeks ago I moderated a panel on the essential
January 28, 2018 Mileage Does Vary Sometimes a book does not live up to your memory of it, or to its reputation. Sometimes a book
December 17, 2017 The Little and the Big I’ve, at last, worked my way through a couple of massive, minor classics: Little, Big (John Crowley);
November 5, 2017 Carousing Through the Dismal Season The leaves are dropping, exposing the bare wooden scaffolding of the trees. The rain is either a
October 22, 2017 J.R.R. Tolkien: Appendix N’s Controversial Entry Writing about J.R.R. Tolkien is challenging unless one cares nothing for originality. Oceans of ink have
August 13, 2017 Currently Reading I’ve mentioned before that I’m usually reading multiple books at any given time. (Not simultaneously of course. Let’s not be
The end of modern civilization. What caused it? Nuclear war, plague, zombies, alien invasion? Pick your poison. But the world we know is gone. Survivors
There was a time when bookshops were the domain primarily of discrete novels, or perhaps a sequel or two. Complete, single-volume stories sat at the
May 14, 2017 Tea With the Black Dragon. Add a Splash of Gin to Mine. Yesterday I finished R.A. MacAvoy’s Tea With the Black Dragon.