Observance for the day. Couldn’t put this better than Teresa Nielsen Hayden, consulting editor for New York-based Tor Books where she goes to work: Some of the stories getting told now are the ones people couldn’t bear to tell or to hear told last fall. They lodge in the mind. I’ll never be able to… Continue reading

Thought for the day: Just sold my first short story since…well, longer than I’d like to admit. Other writers have commented on the comparative ease of getting non-fiction published compared to fiction. I agree. And it is much worse now than it was ten or twenty years ago. And yet, I’ve also noticed that the… Continue reading

Martin Peretz’s excellent piece in this week’s New Republic deserves more notice. Peretz has always been a big supporter of Al Gore, and he came under some fire over the past couple of years for using his magazine to boost Gore during the presidential campaign. Indeed, to the point of firing at least one editor… Continue reading

Are DVDs the wave of the future for independent filmmakers? Chris Gore at Filmthreat thinks so. And his piece in the newsletter this week is worth quoting in depth: Independent film is currently at a crossroads. The former titans of the indie film world, the Miramaxes and the Artisans, have all but stopped taking risks.… Continue reading

John Ellis has a great piece touting netflix.com, one of the true success stories of the over-hyped dot.com era. Meanwhile at The New Republic, John Judis explains why Major League baseball won’t be much better off, even if the Players and Owners avoid a strike this Friday….