It Is Always So Simple,

I Don't Care What Is Written," Meyer Landsman Says. "i Don't Care What Supposedly Got Promised To Some Sandal-wearing Idiot Whose Claim To Fame Is That He Was Ready To Cut His Own Son's Throat For The Sake Of A Hare-brained Idea. I Don't Care About Red Heifers And Patriarchs And Locusts. A Bunch Of Old Bones In The Sand. My Homeland Is In My Hat. It's In My Ex-wife's Tote Bag.

So It Was Scary, But That's How It Goes. To My Great Delight, I Discovered That It Did All Belong.

I Hate To See Great Works Of Literature Ghettoized, Whereas Others That Conform To The Rules, Conventions, And Procedures Of The Genre We Call Literary Fiction Get Accorded Greater Esteem And Privilege. I Also Have A Problem With How Books Are Marketed, With Certain Cover Designs And Typefaces. They're Often Stamped With An Identity That Has Nothing To Do With Their Effect On The Reader.

There's Something Inherently More Appealing About The Idea That You Could Reveal And Tell Stories About Characters Over The Course Of A Tv Season - 13 Or 26 Episodes, Whatever It Might Be - Than In The Course Of One Two-hour Movie. You Can Do So Many More Novelistic Kinds Of Things On A Tv Show - With Time, With Gradual Development Of Relationships, And So On - Than You Could Possibly Do In A Movie. And That Is Very Appealing.

I Do Have A Collection Of Mid-century, Small-press Science Fiction And Fantasy Hardcovers That Is My Most Focused And Dedicated Collection. Everything Else I Tend More To Acquire Or Amass Than Collect. I Have Vinyl Records I Listen To All The Time When I Work. But I Don’t Collect Records. I Just Buy Records Where The Price Seems Right And It’s Music I Actually Listen To.