I was sad to learn via Boing Boing today that, after limping along for the past three years, Cody’s Bookstore has finally closed forever. Gone is the great, original store on Telegraph Avenue; gone is the trendy satellite store on Fourth Street; gone is the misbegotten San Francisco store; gone is the last-ditch, hanging-on-by-our-fingernails store [...]

Wow, the bulldog edition of The Chronicle arrives even earlier these days. My latest science fiction column, not slated to run in print until Sunday, is already available in the online edition at SFGate.com. I wouldn’t even have known had I not seen Matt Staggs’ list of links over at Ectstatic Days.
It’s odd working in [...]