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The book Not By the Sword, by Kathryn Watterson, is the true story of a Grand Dragon of the Klan in Nebraska who cut ties with the Klan...

Its insane how much better I feel since I strictly limit the addictive social media and my news consumption and other information...

Also surprisingly fascinating: convenience stores! I once hung out with the owner of a convenience store and his explanations of what...

I just finished "The Secret Life of Groceries" by Benjamin Lorr. Really interesting bit of investigative journalism and history about...

Anthologies and collections have their advantages. They're easier to put down in the middle, and if you don't like a given story at...

I know that I find anthologies of short stories more attractive than full novels for me to pick up and read right now. Tonight I got...

It has, particularly novellas. Amazon’s program of sets of 5-7 short stories as anthologies exists and flourishes, for example. Tor.com...

I enjoy short stories or novellas on the Kindle, but I'm not sure how much of a market there is for those. I typically see only big name...

I prefer trade paperbacks as a physical form factor, but there is (or at least was) a use-case for mass-market paper; I suppose for much...

Read Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today by Naomi Alderman, which is an excellent discussion of how social media and the modern...

Yeah, even since I was a teenager in the late 90s it is a total collapse. Heck, not even just short fiction, the same marketplace and...

As someone who enjoys, and has at times preferred, shorter fiction, I am always saddened when I think how the market for it has...

Catch-up time. I had to shelve a reread of the Book of the New Sun. Just too damn much stress right now. Four Lost Cities, by Analee...

Trying out this season of the The Traitors. I'm not generally a reality show guy, but this is amusing me, so far. Also annoying me, but...

New: Finished the new season of Shetland. Solid. Binged Wonder Man. Very good (as long as you take it for what it is and not the 616...