Scottish crime novelist Val McDermid on how the mystery and crime genres (at least in the UK) are helping to keep ‘mainstream’ fiction honest: “Literary fiction in the U.K. became very concerned with literary theory, critical theory, to the extent that the notion of narrative almost became a dirty word. That’s slowly started to change… Continue reading

William Safire on the importance of Israel’s upcoming election: So I’m rooting for Arik to win his party’s nomination this week and for Likud to win seats from Labor and from Shas, the fading religious party, in January. Then I’d like to see Bibi take the finance ministry and be given a free hand to… Continue reading

My book Digital Movies With QuickTime Pro has been listed in the Author’s Corner section of this week’s QuickTime newsletter from Apple.

Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for the tip off to this article, in today’s Guardian by one Hugo Young. It should be read in full by all Catholics—even if you don’t agree with all of his points. For one sample: [The Church] demands a tolerance for past error, and an exemption from the rules of civil… Continue reading

I’m interviewed today in the new QuickTime support site run by Clifford VanMeter.