Texas community newspaper The Good Life has a solid piece on Howard Waldrop that’s worth reading. The bibliography the accompanies it is a bit spotty, but you get that. Speaking of Howard, I just got an early look at his next story, “The Wolfman of Alcatraz”, which Ellen Datlow will be publishing at SciFiction on September 22. It’s a very solid Waldrop short that I’ll post more about a little later (I want to re-read it), which I think may mark a change in his work. As always, I’m up to my ears in other reading. I just received the new Terry Pratchett, Stephen Donaldson, and Jon Courtenay Grimwood books. I’m obliged to read the Donaldson, but the others look really good. I’m also tearing through as much short fiction as I can before I head off to the States. It’s beginning to feel like those year’s bests are due in about 20 minutes.