So cool to see the cover of my first novel, Anna of Byzantium, on your site! Just wanted to make sure everyone knew that this is a modern imagining (by a talented artist named David Bowers) of what she might have looked like and isn't to be taken as a likeness. And yes, she was a fireball of awesome!

Julia Kristeva wrote a novel about her called Murder in Byzantium, which is on my list. Maybe over the holidays.

Congratulations on a most excellent use of 'barbarian'.

David Mitchell is such a dreamboat.

Men who are philosophical

Uncanny! He's the white Snoop even more than Adrian Brody!

I'll just leave this here. Sigh.

My vote. All of my votes. Every vote from now until the end of time, and I'll write him in for president too.