At least the pages and blogs I frequent, I suspect, since so many of those responsible will be heading for NECON on Thursday. Why do we go to conventions? That’s the question I explore in this month’s Storytellers Unplugged essay. Due to technical difficulties, the podcast version isn’t yet available but it might be by tomorrow.
I finished Haruki Murakami’s story collection Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman last night. I don’t think I like his short stories as much as his novels. His penchant for the bizarre seems out of proportion with the story in briefer works. He also seems to have adopted this “quirky final paragraph” style that is almost like a fable but not quite. I did like the closing story, “A Shinagawa Monkey,” quite a bit and some of the other stories I liked okay until they sort of petered out into this vague, confusing, irresolute void.
I’m expecting a copy of Robert McCammon’s Queen of Bedlam in the mail today or tomorrow so I’ll have it to read during my long flights and layovers in the coming days. I may take along a couple of Ross McDonald crime novels, too, for a change of pace. I received two new editions from Vintage on the weekend.
The most recent episode of The Dead Zone was pretty good. There’s a new sheriff in town and she’s sort of cute—and has a history. Cara Buono’s not the best actress on the planet, but she holds her own. The plot about the loan shark and the land deal was serviceable, though once you put the main character down in a hole and the supposedly concerned guest actor on the ground above him holding a shovel, it doesn’t take a psychic to figure out what’s going to happen next.
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