These are are notes I made for a more elaborate essay that never really gelled.  It's still a decent starting point for a look at found,...

Caleb Whitefoord, 1773 or 74.  Sir Joshua Reynolds Over the years, I've come across several essays about how some of the earliest novels...

Here are three books:  "Sci-fi" or "SF" or "Science Fiction" or "Speculative Fiction" or "3 dog...

I wrote about Matthew Cissell back in July . Matt had given a shout out to LoS  in advance of a lecture he gave for International Pynchon W...

Possible photo of Ducasse; provenance: Dazet family   Portrait imaginaire  de Lautréamont par  Félix Vallotton ,  1898 L'Enigme d'I...

A few days ago, at the venerable and genteel Chatauqua Institution  in upstate New York, Anglo/American, Indian-born author Salman Rushdie w...