Today was a good day. I got the last bits of information (and some other things I’m not at liberty to discuss yet) that I needed for my upcoming lecture on Robert Jordan, and so was able to put the finishing touches on my notes for the talk. I’m thrilled …
I’m giving a public lecture at the Charleston Library Society on Thursday night. The talk, entitled “An American Tolkien: Robert Jordan and the Roots of Fantasy,” is now complete with the exception of one short “show and tell” bit for which I’m awaiting a single piece of information from Jordan’s …
At the Codex Writer’s Workshop this summer, the esteemed James Maxey gave a short talk on spicing up prose with nouns. The right noun can convey an extraordinary amount of information, he pointed out, and he then drove home the point by having us collect nouns on little piece of …
I’ve been asked to open the lecture season at the Charleston Library Society with a talk on Robert Jordan and his literary impact. Thus, on 18 September, at 7pm, I’ll be presenting “An American Tolkien: Robert Jordan and the Roots of Fantasy.” Work on writing it will commence today.
A clip of Benjamin Bagby reciting the opening of Beowulf in Old English with his own Anglo-Saxon harp accompaniment. (This one’s for you, Ken!)