Saturday, March 14, I’ll be at the Leipzig Book Fair for a special reading marking Alice Sheldon’s 100th year, organized by my fab German publisher, Septime Verlag. More info at www.leipziger-buchmesse.de.

In honor of grammar nerds everywhere I’ve put together what I could find about Mustapha Ourrad, the copy editor at Charlie Hebdo.

Is Charlie Hebdo racist? I’ve been getting into discussions and wanted to say something about what I think is a deep European-American divide.

Thanks to the organizers of Elstercon and my German publisher, Septime Verlag in Vienna, for bringing me to Leipzig to talk about James Tiptree, Jr. …

“Why are things as they are? Must they be as they are? What might they be like if they were otherwise? To ask these questions is to admit the contingency of reality, or at least to allow that our perception of reality may be incomplete… There really is nothing to fear in fantasy unless you are afraid of the freedom of uncertainty.” —Ursula K. Le Guin

September 19-21 I’ll be appearing in Leipzig at Elstercon 2014, talking about James Tiptree, Jr., with my award-winning German translator, Margo Jane Warnken. Appropriately enough, considering Tiptree’s work, the theme of the con is “Crime Scene: The Future.”  

Saturday, Aug. 30, at 3 pm at the American Book Center in Amsterdam, I’ll be interviewing Corinne Duyvis, author of the widely praised YA fantasy Otherbound. She’s a young Amsterdam novelist and artist who writes and publishes in English. Her debut is a gripping read with an original approach to themes of disability, diversity, and […]

My German translator, Margo Jane Warnken, has won the Kurd Laßwitz Preis 2014 for best science fiction translation for James Tiptree Jr. – Das Doppelleben der Alice B. Sheldon (Septime Verlag, 2013). Congratulations, Margo, and many thanks to Septime Verlag, who are in the process of publishing the complete works of James Tiptree, Jr., in […]

Welcome to my new website! I’ve put together a selection of my recent articles and posted them here: on Toni Morrison and Michael Chabon, A.S. Byatt and Patti Smith, the art of the love letter, the Lost Continent of Mu, a Turkish writer in Amsterdam, and “Mrs. Dalloway” in the 21st century. Taken together they […]

My first job in New York was as an editorial assistant at Pantheon Books, where André Schiffrin was publisher. After he was fired, I was one of the employees who walked out in protest. He wore left-wing corduroy jackets and a benign look; he was too busy to take much notice of us assistants, but […]