Monthly Archives: June 2011

I bought two artworks at the Lakefront Festival of the Arts this year, and only after getting them home did I realize that both of them appealed to me because they looked as if they came out of books. The … Continue reading →

The quote is from “Being in Being: the collected works of a master Haida mythteller, Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighaway,” translated by Robert Bringhurst. The stories were transcribed phonetically in 1900, in what were then called the Queen Charlotte Islands … Continue reading →

Fantasy writers often pay lip service to the difficulties readers can encounter when entering a new mythology (our own), but it’s easy to forget just how opaque an unfamiliar genre can be. In my own work, I count on familiarity … Continue reading →