Cadet Joseph C. Collins, an upstanding Chemistry major from New York who will join the Navy after graduation, wrote a research paper for me last spring as a freshman (or “knob,” as we call the poor folks hereabouts). This Chemistry major’s topic? Shakespeare’s Othello, by golly. Joseph is a terrific …
As most site readers are aware, the novel I’m in the midst of writing — the first one I think I’ll try to sell — is largely set during those stormy years in which the Roman Republic dissolved and the Roman Empire was established in its place. As the one-line …
Last night, in the Riverview Room here at The Citadel, James Oliver Rigney, Jr. (known to readers by many names, including Robert Jordan) was posthumously inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. As I told many of the other attendees of the induction ceremony, I would have been happy …
FANTASY AND THE LITERARY LEGACY OF ROBERT JORDAN A speech written for the occasion of the induction of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. into the South Carolina Academy of Authors on 8 March 2008. (A write-up of the event can be found here .) Listen: [audio:jordan.mp3] Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum, …
There is rain sheeting against my window. There are three — no, four piles of work on my desk in need of grading. Yet I’m happy. Why? Well, Dave Truesdale has published his “2007 SF & Fantasy Recommended Reading List” via Black Gate Magazine. I generally ignore these lists, but …