I was recently introduced to a terrific new magazine, based out of Toronto and Chicago: The Coming Envelope. It’s conservative in…
A Review of Josh Davis’s Review of Robert Lopez’s Asunder
After reading a two-hundred-and-sixty-or-so-word review, that is, Josh Davis’s review of Robert Lopez’s Asunder, a review which amounts to little…
Where Do Our Desires Come From? (Want as Tradition)
I’ve been thinking about comments that darby and Mike Meginnis made on Amber’s recent post “I Don’t Like Crap Games.”…
A Relative Century
I have just finished reading A Terrible Beauty by Peter Watson, a book I’ve been working my way slowly through…
Living Art Backwards
Johannes’s comment here reminded me of something I was mulling over this morning. Often one comes to a work of…
Organized Efforts at Book Banning Are On the Rise
If I believed in hell, people who ban books would occupy a very special place in it. They’d have to…
Style as Imitation
1. My father, who once trained as a baker, taught me when I was a kid how to bake an…
I Don’t Like Crap Games
When I get a form rejection from a magazine, (unless it’s the New Yorker or Paris Review or something like…
some nonpublicity for a nonbook published by nonpress
nonpress, the nonpeople who gave us P. H. Madore’s Here Lies an American Dreamer & xTx’s Nobody Trusts a…
Steve Himmer’s THE BEE-LOUD GLADE
Just something to look forward to: Steve Himmer’s novel THE BEE-LOUD GLADE is forthcoming from Atticus Books. Go here to…