current reading :
— Larry McMurtry. Lonesome Dove. A novel [1985]. Foreword by Taylor Sheridan. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, [November 2025].
— John Masefield. ODTAA. A novel. William Heinemann, 1926. One of 275 copies signed by the author.
Picaresque account of a revolution in a tinpot Latin American dictatorship. Prequel, of sorts, to Sard Harker (1924).
For an essay that will appear on Wormwoodiana.
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Michael Swanwick has published a brief, funny, and opinionated account of the New Wave in science fiction, The New Wave Explained
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the Story Prize 2026
the winner of the 22nd annual Story Prize award is André Alexis, author of Other Worlds. Stories (FSG Originals. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2025).