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This is where I will be posting public content from my professional life as well as aspects of my personal life and hobbies. After 30 years of developing products and software systems for the Internet, I am finally starting to put a bit more public information on the Internet. As with nearly everything else on the Internet, this is very much a work in progress.

Latest blog post

The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners, ed. by Amor Towles

tl;dr: An above-average collection whose overall narrative arc I was unable to detect...

Both of the short story anthologies I read every year, the O. Henry Prize Winners stories and the Best American Short Stories, use a guest editor to make the final selection of which stories to include. Sometimes those guest editors overtly warp the selections to satisfy their own political, ideological, genre, or identity biases...

A book cover with the title and editor's name in a white block in the upper left corner with the remainder being a geometric pattern of gold four-pointed stars on a background of lavender


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