Wuthering Heights Wins by a Knock-Out
Wuthering Heights v Southpaw. Wins by a knock out.
HOLY SHIT: LAZY FASCIST STORY BUNDLE OF THE CENTURY.
Go here now, if you want nine of the best weird books you’ll ever read. Ever. Here is a list, with selected reviews, and don’t forget, you can get these, all of these, thanks to the good folks at Lazy Fascist Press, and Story Bundle, and PAY WHATEVER YOU WANT, yeah that, at Story Bundle….
2.5 less on the pile: North American Lake Monsters, Zero Saints, and Innocents and Others.
I read North American Lake Monsters once before, or most of it, but maybe I didn’t have time to absorb itit exactly, or all of it, but this time I did. I could get into the language and the way Balingrud twists up the tension, especially, in a story like Way Station, with the transitions….
A great list but not perfect.
I09 lists 18 killer stories.
This is Horror interviews Stephen Graham Jones
I’ve been reading, and more recently teaching this writer for ever. Most recently I used this piece in, strangely, my novel class, mmmm. To be reminded that a novel is just, not just, but just up-sized, an expansion and contraction, or crystalline refraction of random human moments, countless, like this: Truth is a Bearded Lady…
Alfred Kubin’s illustration for Der Orchardeengartin
Another illustration from Der Orchareengarten by the great Alfred Kubin, who wrote the surrealist novel, The Other Side (Die Andere Seite) in 1908, which he also illustrated (below) adapting some of the drawings he’d prepared for Gustav Meyrink’s Der Golem when Meyrink hit a snag. Kind of like when the money for the Halo movie…
Scott McClanahan’s Collected Works Vol 1.
I want to say Carver’s style with Dennis LeHane’s heart but McClanahan’s stories mess with both.
Going OFF!
American Monster has been picked up by a West Coast publisher who I cannot name right now, but it is one I am indescribably proud to be associated with. Biggest hangover ever. The Box came out on Juked; the folks at Doghorn never cease to amaze me with their generosity and professionalism. And always always…
Writers on the Web: Philip K Dick, Neil Gaiman, William Gibson…
What I think is really interesting is that Dick described himself as a ‘fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.’ Which is so Platonic it’s not funny. Western philosophers have been fictionalizing since forever. Plato made shit up. Or rather he made shit up about Socrates making shit up.
Moby Dick and me
Hacktastic Herman and magnified mice.