Fahrenheit channel 451
In an article in LA Weekly, Ray Bradbury claims that his intent with Fahrenheit 451 has been misinterpreted— that it “is in fact, a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature.” I know that Bradbury has been on the anti-TV bandwagon for a long time. When I saw him in the mid-90s, he [...]
Meeting Michael Connelly
I went down to Houston last night to our local indy mystery bookstore, Murder By the Book. Great store, and they get all the big name authors in for readings or signing events. Last night it was Michael Connelly, author of the Harry Bosch mysteries, one of my favorites.
There are a ton of authors [...]
11 prefectures in five days
I’m back on the eastern side of the international date line, but I’m not sure exactly which side my brain is on. Four days later, I’m still experiencing jetlag, manifested by prolonged waking periods in the middle of the night for no good reason. I was really tired when I went to bed last night, [...]
Notes from an elevator in Tachikawa
It was the end of the second day of meetings at the Haijima factory. A dozen of us went out to dinner at an Italian restaurant near the hotel. Restaurant’s name was Kahari, which doesn’t sound Italian, but they served grappa, so it must have been an Italian restaurant. The fact that they insisted on [...]
Sunrise, sunset and CSI spoilers. Grey’s Anatomy, too.
This time tomorrow I’ll be somewhere over the Pacific, in the process of acquiring a monumental case of jet lag. Tokyo is the destination. I leave late tomorrow morning and get into Narita on Sunday afternoon. Thirteen hour flight and fourteen hour time difference. Woo-hee. On my return next Friday, I get back home two [...]
What could I do but laugh and go?
Apropos of nothing:
I meant to do my work today,
But a brown bird sang in the apple tree,
And a butterfly flitted across the field,
And all the leaves were calling me.
And the wind went sighing over the land,
Tossing the grasses to and fro,
And a rainbow held out its shining hand,
So what could I do but laugh and [...]
Jeri-gone
CBS confirmed today that Jericho is history. Blast. (pun quasi-intended)
It was good to see Robert Wagner on the finale of 2-½ Men. He’s just as cool and suave as ever. They should have pretended he was Jonathan Hart, all these years later.
I spent a lot of time preparing submissions this morning and managed to only [...]
Jeri-go
No, I’m not commenting about Falwell—just read a rumor that Jericho won’t be back in the fall. Shoot. That’s like canceling The Lord of the Rings just when they’re getting ready for the battle of Helm’s Deep.
Picked up a copy of Rue Morgue #67 today for my first glimpse of my first article with them. [...]
To do and done
My to-do list for the weekend had seven items on it, which was a little on the ambitious side, but I managed to make a dent in it and cross off five of the items completely.
First, I had to write my installment of a round-robin short story I’m participating in. First, I had to get [...]
Dreamlands
Just back from the post office, having delivered the package containing six copies of “Beyond All Doubt” into the hands of the USPS. The deadline for submissions to the Mystery Writers of America anthology is next Tuesday, so I’m comfortably under the wire. Five copies are distributed to a group of judges, who winnow the [...]
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Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
