It will be a very short column this week.
At Lit Hub, Joe R. Lansdale thinks back about the Hap and Leonard series and how Leonard came into being. He updates the column with memories of Michael K. Williams, who played Leonard in the series.
Maria Dahvana Headley’s translation of Beowulf took the Harold Morton Landon translation award.
FIYAHCon 2021 has made some of its panels available at no cost. (Thanks to File770.)
Logan, aka Wolverine, comes out of retirement yet again in a new series of stories. I’m “ho-hum” about it except for that artwork!
In case you somehow missed the Foundation trailer, enjoy the featurette.
This article has a few more tidbits.
In antiquarian books, it’s not unusual to find old parchments glued into old books, but this discovery in Bristol two years ago introduced a new story about Arthur and Merlin.
Hey, I warned you it would be short.
Aren't smart, feisty, sarcastic protagonists pretty much the default in genre fiction nowadays? From that baseline you move up to…
COMMENT My highest recommendation!
that's what I was thinking. It looks like an intriguing story, seriously.
COMMENT Ha! That's funny! Doing the ol' invisible box shtick, right?
I mean, he looks scared, but he could also be an apprentice mime.