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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…
Is this my house?
ByJSB
It has been such a long time since I’ve checked in, that even my own blog doesn’t recognize me. Apologies for the absence. A tough month of personal loss. Hard to make sense of the universe right now. In “Emma Zunz,” Borges writes that after getting news of the death of her father, Emma realized…

How to write a novel in 90 days: t = -7
ByJSB
How to write a novel in 90 days? This is me, reporting for preliminary duty, hot coffee and cold pizza on hand. Excited to be starting. To be writing and planning and about to enter this 90 Day vortex of the soul. No time to explain, because fact is I only have two hours before…
Very excited…book party tomorrow.
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Went by and checked out the venue with a friend, who gave it three thumbs up. Yay! Still haven’t heard back about the nibbles, oh well. We may just have to order pizza. I’m looking forward to chilling with nearest and dearest, and I can honestly say, maybe for the first time in a while,…
Shitty Vampire
ByJSB
I came across this the other day. My poem Shitty Vampire in Trunk Books Vol II: Blood. This is a cool little book, full of great art and text. The beautiful image next to my poem is by senVoodoo. The launch was awesome. Very shmancy, the shmanciest I’ve been to. But strange, too. A huge…
NY Journal of Books Reviews Collision.
ByJSB
Townsend Walker over at NY Journal Of Books had this drop today – 15 February EST, the day Collision: Stories is unleashed on the world. Needless to say, I’m honored, stoked and you know, overwhelmed. “J. S. Breukelaar is a writer of obvious talent, demonstrated over and over in this collection.” The 12 stories in…