The Misread City

On Saturday I led a panel at UCLA with three writers who work in what we might call slipstream, literary fantasy, conceptual fiction, surrea...

THIS Saturday I am quite honored to be moderating a panel with three very fine novelists of my generation at the LA Times Festival of Books....

WHEN i agreed to hang out with novelist salman rushdie in and around hollywood for a few hours, i would not have been surprised to find mys...

TODAY one of the most innovative and intriguing writers in the english language marks her 80th birthday. there aren't many novelists wh...

ONE of the key impulses of my generation -- what we used to call generation x -- has been the move away from old-school psychological realis...

SOMEHOW, without quite knowing it, i wrote two brief pieces on ursula le guin, and both have recently gone up. the first is mostly an exten...