photo by Jerry Bauer
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 01:38PM Blackstone Audiobooks will be releasing audio books of Earthseed, Farseed, and Seed Seeker, all read by Amy Rubinate, who has a lovely voice well suited to these novels of mine.
Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 07:39AM in a trade paperback this September, and can be ordered now from Barnes & Noble. But if you can, buy it from a local independent bookstore.
UPDATE (September 1, 2011): Also available from Powell's, although their page does not show the actual cover art.
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 07:07AM Because the ban on hydrofracking has been lifted just as the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the agency that will have to monitor this controversial natural gas drilling technique, is slated to lose another 321 jobs. All while the New York Times is being attacked for pointing out that people in the gas industry are calling shale gas extraction a "giant Ponzi scheme."
Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 08:38AM Marital equality is now the law in New York state, and for once I can be proud that I live in Albany!
Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 11:17AM V.S. Naipaul is also a great writer, and one whose fiction and nonfiction I have read and reread over the years. A great human being? Not so much, and does that matter? Ta-Nehisi Coates posted a comment by "Hilzoy" on the writer and the man:
"It would be a mistake not to read Naipaul. He's a gorgeous, gorgeous writer. . . he's also one of the best examples around of someone who is (imho) deeply worth reading, but whose treatment of both women and blacks (esp. blacks outside Africa) is just horrific."
Read the whole post, which sums up my own views.