New Look and New Link

In my continuing efforts to thoroughly confuse my faithful and constant readers, this blog is moving again. My new site will have sections about my books and will function as a more comprehensive personal website, not just a blog. Adjust your bookmarks accordingly and hope to see you there.

Strange Paths

Regular readers of my various blogs will know of my high regard for the works of Jorge Luis Borges. Here are some random bits of trivia about this singular writer:

1. In later life he tried to buy up all the copies of his earliest works because he believed them to be inferior and embarrassing to his reputation.

2. He loved westerns.

3. He bumped his head quite severely in 1938. It was only after this injury that he began writing the surreal works for which he became famous.

4. His first introduction to the English speaking literary world was with a story translated by Anthony Boucher and published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Yup, a pulp magazine. I love that.