Out of Ambit
Current events
A farewell: Steve Jobs
I started suspecting some weeks back that we might be close to losing Steve Jobs. I never suspected we were this close, though. This morning’s news comes as a shock, and is a source of great sadness. From the time I first got my hands on an Apple product some three decades ago — I [...]
Thinking about Long Island
Thinking about it quite hard. All of you who’re in the NY area at the moment… please be safe. Storms of this intensity that have hit the Island in the past have changed its terrain. (See this sequence of images for details and this description of the 1938 storm.) Don’t play around with this one. [...]
The Women at DC Comics kurfuffle: a note from over here
I’ve loved comics all my life. I don’t even remember when the first one fell into my world, or what it was: comics simply seem to have been around me from the beginning. I do remember that the first ones I really loved were the Superman and Superboy comics, especially when that strand of the [...]
He Whom I’m Getting Tired Of Seeing Named
…Not Voldemort, of course. I harbor a certain sneaking affection for a villain who manages to get so much done without a nose, and who has exploited for his benefit a folkloric trope* that the Lone Power (and many another otherworldly archvillain) has used before him: of being one who shouldn’t be named, because [...]
Whatever would the Dean say…
…about what’s going on at the moment. I mean of course Jonathan Swift, the Dean of Christchurch Cathedral in Dublin — that perfect raconteur, columnist, satirist without peer, and celebrated man of letters of his busy century. He would, I bet, have serious words to say about the last week’s news. Maybe the political establishment [...]
About the blogger
30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
Loading ...
Affiliated websites
© 2012 Out of Ambit. All Rights Reserved.
Powered by WordPress. Designed by 