The Mumpsimus

Eric Rosenfield has very kindly posted the video from my interview with Carol Emshwiller on April 18. Thanks to Susan Emshwiller for jumping in as camera operator. The interview was preceded by a magic show , which explains my first, awkward question. I'll embed the video below the jump. The Carol Emshwiller Project , by the way, is still alive. Now that I've got a copy of The Collected Stories, vol. 1 , I hope to post at least a little something about it over there, but I'm not going to have time to do so for a week or two, I expect.

Blogging here has been light-to-nonexistent recently because I've been swamped with work, much of it delightful, including creating a very special blog: The Carol Emshwiller Project . Carol Emshwiller turns 90 on April 12, and there are lots of celebrations going on. We'll be posting all sorts of things to the blog, especially on the 12th itself, and anyone is welcome to contribute, either by writing on your own site or submitting something to me via email . Anything celebratory is welcome, from long and insightful considerations of Mrs. Emshwiller's oeuvre  to a few sentences of joyful best wishes. Write a song, make a video, create fanfic! To learn more about Carol Emshwiller and her work, check out the site. And be sure to stop by on the 12th to share your joy in our cause.

A book I am looking forward to with more excitement than I can possibly express without exploding or somehow otherwise embarrassing myself is The Collected Short Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Volume 1 , forthcoming from Nonstop Press. You'll be hearing a lot more about it and Carol Emshwiller here in the coming weeks, but for now I wanted to note that the table of contents for the book has now been posted . Wow! For the moment, that's the most eloquent response I can summon.