Some more linkage, this time for Lewis Shiner. Nice to see Lew gettin' some dap over at boing² recently, as they might actually drive some traffic to his site. Altho I can't match Cory D's 10x readings of Glimpses, I have read Slam 3x which makes it one of the few books I've read more than once in my adult life -- the only other one that comes to mind is Kitchen Confidential. Not to get all name-droppy but Lew was part of the XDU wrrld music groop for a few years and he's probably the only person in this century to drop some Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons on the XDU listening audience. Meeting Lew was definitely in the top 2 most serendipitous things that have happened to me cos of being at XDU.
Altho not so much recently, I have perpetrated a fair amount of short fiction in my time and have been toying with the idea of adding a section for it in the oft-contemplated redesign of this site. I guess one of the things stopping me was some inarticulate and not-fully-formed concern about the market. But, as Lew points out, there is effectively no market any more. No sense then in holding onto storied until some certified content provider agrees to publish them. Better to get them online and out to the audience that way. Sure, it's not exactly a business model. But neither is YouTube. Yet.