The Mumpsimus

For the Advanced Prose Workshop class that I'm teaching at Plymouth State University this term, I had the students create and manage a blog. They've been playing with it for a little while now, testing out templates and figuring out how to post different types of things. We opened it up to the world today. I'm pretty much letting them do what they want with it, hoping that having a real audience for their work will be both educational and encouraging. With that in mind, I encourage you to take a glance and leave a comment, particularly if something they've written especially interests you. For many of these students, this is the first audience they've ever had beyond friends, family, and teachers. They're really just getting started with posting, but there should be a steady stream of material over the next few weeks. (And as I've warned before, my own blogging here is likely to be light through December.)

Strange Horizons has just posted a review by T.S. Miller of the new edition of Samuel Delany's Starboard Wine , for which I wrote an introduction . It's a generally thoughtful and well-informed review; inevitably, I have quibbles with it, but they aren't important — what's important is that, as Miller notes, the book is now available to a wider audience than ever before.