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The September issue of The Big Click is live, and this time our theme is The New Black. We have debut fiction from Joseph Tomaras and a new story from a newish writer—Marc E. Fitch. Fitch is an old MFA...
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Saturday stuff
I normally say I'm new at taiji and pushing hands. I've been doing it for five years. I think I should tell people I just started yesterday, because today at push-hands club someone I was playing with...
View ArticleCon Creeper Follies, Vol. XXVIV
Some anonymous dope, IP addy at 24.79.17.77 writes:I have held back from commenting upon the incredible ignorance of people discussing this issue, but have hit my limit of disgust. I challenge you all...
View ArticleTwo quickies
Another interview with me by someone who has not read Bullettime, though some of the questions about my reading habits are interesting:Book you've faked reading.Books my friends write.Speaking of...
View ArticleOther Change of Hobbit sale
Berkeley specialty store The Other Change of Hobbit is having a "back rent inventory closeout" sale—which doesn't sound very promising for its future, though I've been hearing that the store was going...
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Every Love Story is a Ghost Story
I was concerned when I started reading Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, as it begins with the birth of its subject. Not with a telling extended anecdotal lede, not...
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My mom told me to paint you a Great Old One
So, la_nausicaa teaches at a special school for kids with Asperger's Syndrome and other spectrum disorders. She concentrates on life skills for the workplace and interpersonal relationships, with an...
View ArticleHappy to
I'm happy that I have enough disposable income so that I can quickly paypal friends, acquaintances, and even the occasional stranger in need a few dollars for medical and sudden veterinary expenses,...
View ArticleEveryone's grandmother got together and started an online literary magazine.
The submission guidelines to Wisdom Crieth Without read, in part:We are looking for traditional poetry. That means it must either rhyme, have meter, or (preferably) both. Free verse is not the focus of...
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Tom Piccirilli
"Two c's, one r, two l's." I used to chant that to myself whenever typing his name. But he always answers to Pic anyway, to make it easier for everyone. When I entered the horror field in the early...
View ArticleTuesday quick notes
A note from Michelle Scalise, re; Tom Piccirilli:I'm here in the ICU. Tom made it through the five hour surgery tonight. He's talking, joking and looking great considering all he's been through. He'll...
View ArticleIndustrial Workers of the World Book Review explodes!
I bet you probably didn't even know that the Industrial Workers of the World was still around, much less that it launched a book review. It's a good idea, in theory. But oh that gap between theory and...
View ArticleThe opposite of Imposter Syndrome...
is to feel consistently underappreciated. In this case, underappreciated as a cowardly, lazy ironist, but...The Steampunk Victorian Empire is unaffected by sexism, racism, homophobia or class-division....
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Amon Tobin
So, last night we went to Amon Tobin at the Greek Theater, a wonderful ampitheater with a secret side entrance for people in the know, of which my wife is one. Ha ha, line-waiters! We got out pick of...
View ArticleMonday quick links
Capclave is this weekend. It's a "a small relaxed literary convention with a program that usually focuses on the short fiction form" in the Washington DC area. I'm the editorial guest of honor. John...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
“Realism is perpetually hungry,” Wood writes, and here I don’t think he could be more wrong. Realism seems wholly sated, lardy, and ready to be worshipped, spouting out its shitty kids and petting them...
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Capclave so far...
I'm the editorial guest of honor at Capclave this year, and it's been nice so far. Of course, I have five hours of workshops and panels and such coming up this afternoon and evening, so...Let's see,...
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Capclave continued...
So, Capclave guest-of-honordom continued to go very well. The concom provided me with blackberry brandy to kill my cold (it worked!) and I was interviewed by Fast Forward TV in front of a live audience...
View ArticleOne last Capclave thing...
At SF conventions, the program books often include appreciations of the guest of honor written by one of their colleagues or fans. I've written some—one for Peter Straub for the Readercon guide, and...
View ArticleHaikasoru Goes Hollywood
At Capclave, I was happy to promote and give away copies of Belka, Why Don't You Bark?, a secret history of the Cold War involving the space race, Mexican drug dealers, psychic yakuza girls, and of...
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