I had the pleasure today of seeing and hearing acclaimed and award-winning author Jeffrey Ford not once today, but twice!

A prolific author in Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Mystery, Jeffrey Ford has written novels, such as The Shadow Year: A Novel, The Girl in the Glass : A Novel, and The Portrait …

Above is a boar located at the excellent Boar’s Head Inn in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Below is a potpouri of reading links. This week includes a space shuttle launch, someone fighting shadows with a sword, how to make a pan flute, and lots of recommended science fiction, fantasy, and horror books …

The temperatures this week here in Virginia dipped down into the 20s (F), but around us signs of spring poke through the cold.

This week we’ve got a full selection of reading and viewing links, including a podcast with Elizabeth Hand, a lost Bruce Lee interview, lost Thomas Jefferson books, …