I have just learned that my series of four posts on Big Other last summer, Blogging the Hugos: Decline, has…
Dante 2020-3: Cleansing as Carnival, Tree as Anchor.
Twice in recent days, I’ve posted stages in a developing idea about Dante’s Divine Comedy. The work is coming up…
Reminder: Reading of C is Underway!
Hey, y’all. I’m about halfway through C by Tom McCarthy, our January book club selection, if you don’t recall. You…
When is the modern?
I am engaging (I think that is the right word, at least if you think in terms of a military…
There and then
Many years ago, when I was in my early to mid-teens, I was for a while addicted to the novels…
Notes on Sequins
Sequins is one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon. Sequins is as well a quality discoverable in…
R.I.P. Trish Keenan (of Broadcast)
I just read that Trish Keenan, of the English band Broadcast, passed away this morning, from pneumonia (she was 42).…
Hello.
Hi, I’m Elaine Castillo. Usually I write over at the PANK blog and my personal one; now it seems I’ll…
SMALL PRESS SHOWCASE
Thursday, February 3rd 7:30-9:30pm at The Fridge 516 8th Street, SE Washington DC http://www.thefridgedc.com FEATURING: Charles Alexander (Chax Press) Amy…