Currently owned by Edward Norton, the Stevens House (1968) began as an impossible demand: a five bedroom luxury house on a 90’ by 30’ plot with no solid walls on two sides so that the ocean and mountains could be viewed. Six architects turned it down and then John Lautner- to whom crazy challenges were […]
Read more "The Stevens Residence"Just invented the Pennyblade. It’s very simple: Tall glass with ice25 ml absintheTop with half lemonade/half cranberry juice. Add a lemon slice. As many of you will already know, it’s named after my grimdark fantasy novel and tastes exactly like the main character’s personality. Find out more here: jamesworrad.com/february-2022-…
Read more "Introducing The Pennyblade Cocktail!"No one takes the Rome-never-happened person seriously on account of her being so ludicrous and thin-skinned. But it’ll only take someone charismatic and superficially reasonable to jump her grift and I’ll be spending my final years being mocked by midwits for believing Ovid wasn’t Stephanie Harris or Zack Snyder or whatever. And it’ll be my […]
Read more "History (increasingly) belongs to the bullshitters"Here’s a link to a post I wrote for Risingshadow.net in which I look at vulgarity, cursing and general lewdness in the fantasy genre. It’s an issue of interest to me given how Pennyblade has been received. It was also a lot of fun to write.
Read more "Fantasy And Vulgarity"Happiness is like a flock of butterflies, fragile and ignorant to your beck and call. But satisfaction? That’s something you’ve power over, can make grow by working on things that truly fire you. Satisfaction is a field of flowers and flowers attract butterflies from time to time.
Read more "How To Be Happy"Honestly? Aside from two magazine articles I’ve never read any Gore Vidal. I can rain neither mana nor venom upon his historical novels, whatever worth they possess. But what I can say– and will die upon any hill you choose saying- is that as far as building a writer’s nest goes, Mr Vidal absolutely nailed […]
Read more "The Absolute Writer-Porn Of Gore Vidal’s Cliffside Villa"
J.L. Worrad 