Devil’s Wake

Interview: Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes

This past June I got the pleasant experience to meet and work with one of my favorite authors – Tananarive Due. Later that same week I got double the experience when she invited her husband, Steven Barnes, to talk with us about sexuality, race, slavery in a seminar. Both are authors I greatly admire and [….]

Devil’s Wake Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes Atria Books ISBN-10: 1451617003 — ♦ — I’m going to say this right from the start – I am not a fan of zombies. They scare the you-know-what out of me! Of the three big supernatural monsters (Vampires, Werewolves, & Zombies) the latter scare the most because I can actually [….]

Birthdays

On this day, May 29, in 1905, author T.H. White was born in what was then known as Bombay, British India. Best known for his series of stories about fabled King Arthur, published together under the title The Once and Future King (along with the short story which was to become part of Arthurian lore, “The Sword in the Stone”), he also wrote novels in the science fiction and fantasy genre, even penning nonfiction works such as The Goshawk, an accounting of the time when he “reverted to a feral state”, engaging in hunting, fishing and falconry while living in a workman’s cottage. He died at sea of a heart attack while returning from a book tour; he was 57.

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