Girls and non-white guys write great science fiction books too*. On the plus side, he mostly likes Dave Marusek’s book. (I was feeling charitable.)
*I’m not saying that’s not a list of great books, but not one woman? No Chip Delany?
Updated: Matt Cheney breaks down what’s wrong with the column, something I was far too lazy to even attempt.
Carrie thinks this may be the NYTBR’s "first hipster book column."
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Hannah has had a series of excellent posts about writing in the last little while. The most recent one deals with "sidestepping the learning curve" and it reminded me of a section at the very beginning of The Green Book, but I’m only getting time to type it in now. I agree with it, especially since I believe that if I’d read what Koch has to say on rewriting earlier I’d have saved about a year and at least a draft on Girl’s Gang.
This is fairly longish, which is why I’m posting it here and not there. Behind the cut.
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Cat Blogging Friday. Neither of us could get Hemingway to sit for a new photo, so here’s one I took the other night showcased on C‘s desktop. Coming soon: a photo of Hem and George. (This morning, George wakes up, drags himself to his feet, looks around. Hemingway traipses over to him and starts doing that little hoppy thing cats do in order to rub the side of their faces against something TO GEORGE. George was nonplussed.)
Still have this stupid cold (after this I am NEVER getting sick again; you hear me, germs?) and am busy so today is a day for excuses. Maybe some cat blogging later, if he’ll sit still and let me take the picture. Some writing later; something new, something top secret because I’m not quite sure yet. Some sleeping.
And on Sunday, I’ll join the other instigators here at Ed’s fabulous live Oscar blog party. Do stop by.
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Some things must go! Small Beer Press needs warehouse space and so they are selling batches of CRAZY GOOD books CRAZY CHEAP.
Go look. Have your credit card handy.
So, what does a polydactyl named Hemingway get up to on his first full day all alone in the house? Archeology, of course.
We didn’t even notice right away that he’d managed to unboard up the fireplace in the office and do some excavation. When we did, we cracked up, unable to even pretend at madness. I took this shot after Christopher righted the bourbon ad (originating from the Raleigh contingent) and put the board sort of back in place. I think you can still see the evidence. 
There’s some more trace evidence on the backsides of his thunderpaws, but you can’t see that in this photo because he doesn’t like to be still for photos. That Hemingway, he’s a cat in motion.
Finally! New!
Bridesmaid Revisited. Proud parents Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Christopher (David Sutcliffe) attend a journalism panel at Yale where Rory (Alexis Beldel) dazzles the crowd. Afterwards, Lorelai offers to help Christopher (David Sutcliffe) out by babysitting his 4-year-old daughter and is horrified by the toddler’s terrible behavior. The next day, Rory and Logan (Matt Czuchry) attend the wedding of Logan’s sister, Honor (guest star Devon Sorvari). While helping the bride and her three bridesmaids get ready, Rory is devastated to learn how Logan spent his time during their recent breakup. Logan tries to defend his actions, but a devastated Rory turns to Lorelai and Paris (Liza Weil) for comfort. Finally, Lane (Keiko Agena) is still heartbroken over Zach (guest star Todd Lowe), until he turns up at the diner with a surprise. Scott Patterson and Sean Gunn also star. The episode was written by Rebecca Rand Kirshner and directed by Linda Mendoza.
I’m not loving where this could go…
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In an otherwise fine piece about Octavia Butler in the WaPo, they spell Delany wrong (more than once):
Black science fiction trailblazer Samuel Delaney, 63, remembers teaching Butler as a 23-year-old student at the Clarion Science Fiction Workshop.
Forcing me to insult either the writer of the piece or a lazy, lazy copy editor: You don’t even know how to spell Delany, bitch.
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