If you are receiving email replies from me from several months ago, do not be alarmed. I’m simply very thorough about the email backlog. Many replies still forthcoming.

New York Post: “Ike ‘Beats’ Tina to Death.”

Terry Pratchett has early onset Alzheimer’s. (via Bill Peshel)

Orson Welles has made appearances in four dreams I’ve had over the past week. And I don’t know why. Either old-time radio is very much on the mind or Mr. Welles’s spirit has found a way to collect residuals from Morpheus.

Sorry, eNotes, but any list of ball-busting women writers without Dorothy Parker, who had the glorious effrontery to tell Norman Mailer, “So you’re the young man who can’t spell ‘fuck,'” is woefully inadequate.