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Some recent links plus an update on how my horror novel revisions are going

These are strange times for Silicon Valley. "Tech" no longer feels like a discrete industry, or a cluster of upstart companies in Palo Alto riding the optimism of the Obama years. It…

Although medieval ideas about food were very different to our own, its importance was widely recognized. According to Galen, food

If you ask anybody in Toronto, they'll tell you that raccoons, AKA the Procyon lotor (Latin for

Yesterday, I filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University and-in his official capacity as Chairman of the US House of Representatives HouseCommitteeonEducationandthe Workforce-Michigan Cong…

Once upon a Y2K, technology still felt like it could fulfill some human need: our drive for connection, perhaps, or just external recognition of our internal monologue. In the early aughts, digital…

It's unusual to encounter good news these days, particularly on social media. So I was delighted to come across this image on Bluesky earlier today, of a letter to the Times of London in reference …

This first appeared in Lit Hub'sCraft of Writingnewsletter-sign up here. Very often one finds literary editors, critics, and some fiction writers talking about novels as if they were mechanical t…

There is no literary spy-and perhaps no literary character, full stop-more famous than James Bond, which should already be enough of an argument for any aspiring writer, but particularly any aspiri…