Literary Wanderings
My take on the literary world: the writing life, authors and books, philosophical conundrums.
Note: I've switched from a blog to a newsletter format. I enjoyed the blog, but newsletters let me engage directly with readers, something I've missed with one-way blog posts. Don't worry, though, all of my old blog posts are listed below.
Newsletters
2026
- [BBN] Layers of Ambiquity
- [BBN] Fraudsters and Scammers
- [BBN] Artificial Intelligence or Let's play "Let's Pretend!"
2025
- [BBN] Holiday book sale - How book pricing works - Upcoming news
- [BBN] Anthropic 101
- [BBN] By Way of Introduction
Blog
2025
- What Is Magical Realism?
- Writing When You Don't Have Time
- General Thoughts On Writing
- My Writing Life
2022
2021
- Jean Giono: Song of the World
- Henri Bosco: Malicroix
- Silvina Ocampo: The Promise
- Dino Buzzati: Catastrophe
- Clifford D. Simak: Novels
- The Rim of Morning: Two Cosmic Tales
- Stanislaw Lem
2019
2018
2017
- Everything, Then and Since
- Strangers to Temptation
- The Great American Eclipse
- More Classics of Modern Science Fiction
- Classics of Modern Science Fiction
- The Night the Aliens Came
- Hoag's Object
- AntipodeanSF Magazine
- Puff
2016
- Mercury
- The Miners of Erin
- Prologue to an Imaginary Book
- The Drake Equation: An Update
- Worms of Titan
- Orders of Magnitude
- Facts and Theories
- Marooned in the Tarantula Nebula
- The Miners of Lightning Spruce
2015
- Jose Donoso: A House in the Country and Curfew
- Clarice Lispector in Translation
- Inversion
- Perception
- 36th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
- Gene Wolfe's Writing Rules
- Time Travel: What It Is, What It Isn't
- Barnegat Inn
2014
- A Refutation of "A New Refutation of Time"
- It's About Time
- The Arrows of Time
- Are We Conscious?
- 2038: A Mars Odyssey
- The Ziggurat
- The Green Knowe Chronicles
- Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
- The Steady-State Multiverse
2013
- Expansion of Space
- Farewell Skive
- On Reading Fiction for Pleasure
- Alvaro Mutis
- It's Not What You Think It Is
- Perihelion Science Fiction
- A Journey Through the Wormhole
- Consciousness I
- Resolutions
2012
- Asimov's Mysteries
- The Golden Age of Science Fiction
- Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
- Existence
- Love in a High-Tech Age
- A Matter of Principle
- The Obscene Bird of Night
- J.-H. Rosny aîné
- Big, Bold Science Fiction
- 33d International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
- Great Works
- Musings
- Upcoming
- How I Write
- Origins