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When I was first learning Chen-style taijiquan, my instructor would make us sit in a narrow horse stance, which was uncomfortable. Then he’d physically adjust our hips, our thighs, heads,...
Review of The Martial Art of Writing and Other Essays by Alan Baxter
When I was first learning Chen-style taijiquan, my instructor would make us sit in a narrow horse stance, which was uncomfortable. Then he’d physically adjust our hips, our thighs, heads,...
There was a peculiar kind of sadism, or was it masochism, involved in downlowing into a limbsuit and going out among the slowfolk. We’d get an especial chuckle when we’d...
A Night Out at a Nice Place
There was a peculiar kind of sadism, or was it masochism, involved in downlowing into a limbsuit and going out among the slowfolk. We’d get an especial chuckle when we’d...
I drove a brand-new rental car I couldn’t afford—next year’s model, so in a way it was a car from the future—from the Amherst Amtrak stop and into the Vermont...
The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft
I drove a brand-new rental car I couldn’t afford—next year’s model, so in a way it was a car from the future—from the Amherst Amtrak stop and into the Vermont...
Thank you all—faculty and students, deans and provosts, Ms. President and our board, community members and honored guests for coming today. I suppose I’ll begin with a few prefatory remarks...
On the Occasion of My Retirement
Thank you all—faculty and students, deans and provosts, Ms. President and our board, community members and honored guests for coming today. I suppose I’ll begin with a few prefatory remarks...
Tony had no idea how to explain it, so decided that he wouldn’t even try. Instead, he squeezed his palm around the filakto and loitered in the doorway to the...
The Phylactery
Tony had no idea how to explain it, so decided that he wouldn’t even try. Instead, he squeezed his palm around the filakto and loitered in the doorway to the...
She wasn’t my grandma, but grandpa junior’s eighteenth or nineteenth wife, and I couldn’t help her. “Your computer belongs to the Internet now, Grandma,” I said, as I removed my...
FOUR IS ME! WITH SQUEEEEEE! (AND LOLER)
She wasn’t my grandma, but grandpa junior’s eighteenth or nineteenth wife, and I couldn’t help her. “Your computer belongs to the Internet now, Grandma,” I said, as I removed my...
If you piled the awards and nominations attributed to Gary A. Braunbeck, Jay Lake, Nick Mamatas, and Catherynne M. Valente on the interview table, it would surely implode under the...
ROUNDTABLE INTERVIEW: Gary A. Braunbeck, Jay Lake, Nick Mamatas, and Catheryn...
If you piled the awards and nominations attributed to Gary A. Braunbeck, Jay Lake, Nick Mamatas, and Catherynne M. Valente on the interview table, it would surely implode under the...