George "The Animal" Steele
I first saw professional wrestling thanks to a religious obligation—Good Friday's midnight liturgy. To stay up for the trip to church, my sister and I had the TV on and clicked around the channels till...
View ArticleForty-Five
Well, today I am forty-five. Clearly I should have thought of a better name for my blog back when I was twenty-nine.As it is my birthday, let me encourage you, as I do annually, to buy yourself a a...
View ArticleAnother Thing to Celebrate!
Statement: After careful consideration @simonschuster and its @threshold_books have cancelled publication of Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos— (((Adam Rothberg))) (@AdamRothberg) February 20,...
View ArticleAttention Illiterates!
I Am Providenceis now a two-narrator audiobook on Audible.com. So if you like books but dislike reading, get to clicking.
View ArticleThe Graps
Did you know that Legacy.com commissions original feature essays? I didn't either, till last week, when they commissioned me to discuss the deaths of George "The Animal" Steele, Ivan Koloff, and Chavo...
View ArticleThe Lovecraftian Literature StoryBundle is live!
Like ebooks? Like Lovecraft? Check out the Lovecraftian Literature Story Bundle, featuring anthologies and novels by Cody Goodfellow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Scott R. Jones, li'l ol' me, and many more....
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The True Meaning of Saint Patrick's Day
Remember that Saint Patrick was not Irish; he was Anglo-Roman, who brought enlightenment to the island and defeated the pagan darkness at great risk to himself. He also chose the shamrock as a way to...
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Florida
I spent the last week in Florida, and it was all right. In Tampa, I visited with my uncle, who watches MSNBC on his TV while double-checking with CNN on his phone, and my poor grandmother who in her...
View ArticleHonestly, I've never read a ToS before and I am not going to start now...
I don't blog much anymore. (Twitter's where the fun stuff is: @Nmamatas.) When I do need to blog, or share a link to publications, I probably will use this space anyway. Come and get me, Putin!
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Over at Legacy.com, I write about Don Rickles, the Man Who Insulted His Way to Belovedness.
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Book Review: <i>I Am Providence</i>, by Nick Mamatas
Originally posted by inverarity at Book Review: <i>I Am Providence</i>, by Nick MamatasA murder mystery at a Lovecraft convention. Or: Bimbos of the Death Sun for a new generation.Night...
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Are you prepared for life in the darkest timeline?
You need to be.Check out my new Noir Story Bundle. Fourteen ebooks for fifteen bucks. Can't go wrong!
View ArticleI AM PROVIDENCE ebook supercheap
$1.99 on AmazonAnd also NOOKAnd via Google BooksApple iBooksEven Kobo!
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Where I've Been
This weekend I gave a speech on human rights at the UN.Really!But first, a stop at the Republic of Korea's permanent mission, with a lobby installation by one of my favorite video artists:Then off to...
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Noir StoryBundle almost gone!
The Noir StoryBundle vanishes in two days! Fourteen books, including the bundle-exclusive The Collected Big Click for a mere fifteen bucks. Classics, contemporary, underground crime fiction. Check it out!
View ArticleLittle Dayjob Ebook Sale
The first volume of the epic Japanese milsf/space opera, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, v1: Dawn is now a $2.99 ebook. A good way to get started on the series! (Link leads to Kindle, but NOOK etc....
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New Story
Amazon has copies early and tomorrow everyone—well, every electronic one—will have copies of Hard Sentences, a crime fiction anthology of Alcatraz-themed stories.My story is "Being Whitey", which is...
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Advance copy of MIXED UP in the house!
Hardcover! Ribbon bookmark! Check it! Pre-order!With cocktail recipes from around the world by Molly Tanzer, and new flash fiction by Jeff VanderMeer, Benjamin Percy, Cara Hoffman, Elizabeth Hand, and...
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