My latest column for BB is all about our fave superheroes of information: Librarians! Here’s a taste:Go ahead, laugh. But think about it; what is the most crucial commodity in the world today? Information. Even if you’re not quizzing Number Six, you are still bound to be wading through tons of information every day even…
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Signing: Eastline Books May 30
Just a reminder for local people that I will be signing copies of Unikirja at Eastline Books in Clifton Park, NY on Saturday May 30th, beginning at noon. I will bring one of my kanteles to play and if there’s any interest, maybe read a little. Author Lyn Miller-Lachmann will also be there signing her…
Signing: Eastline Books
Just a quick note to let you know that I will be doing a signing for Unikirja May 30th at Eastline Books in Clifton Park, NY. The fabulous Robyn Ringler hosts many events at her independent book store and it’s a great place to browse — in fact, she’ll be having a big sale that…
Review: King Kong Theory
See my brief review of Virginie Despentes’ King Kong Theory over at BitchBuzz. Be sure to check out all the other fun pieces at the mag, too. I’d like to write a longer and more thoughtful review of the book, which it deserves. Despentes comes to the topic of women today from very disparate experiences:…
Friday’s Forgotten Books: Shrieks at Midnight
Shrieks at Midnight: Macabre Poems, Eerie and HumorousSelected by Sara and John E. BrewtonDrawings by Ellen Raskin Here is my Rosetta Stone. Its garish orange cover depicts a ghoulishly grinning dinner party with a horse and skeleton at the feast. The feast? Human flesh. An angular woman with a tabby perched on her shoulder sends…
Get Your Zombie On!
The fabulous Elena Steier illustrates a wild zombie adventure written by Andrew Steier (hmmmm, wonder if they’re related?).
Publication: Review of Deleuze and Horror
I have a new publication out that will interest many of you: a review of Deleuze and Horror by Anna Powell. It’s in the latest edition of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (19.1), pages 119-122. Unfortunately, the “current issue” listed on their website is not the actual current one, so there’s no…
Trubba Not
In a tweet last night I used the word “trufax” and was pleasantly surprised to get a response of “trubba not” from a fellow tweeter, someone I know only from the internet, but who has proved to have a wealth of overlapping interests with me, including studying hagiography in grad school. When you find someone…
Figuring things out
I’ve been skimming through Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. In the midst of the chapter “The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 2” suddenly so much seems plain, particularly when I look at the way people behave in academia. Despite all my years spent in that realm, I retain an uneasy feeling of having one foot in and one…
A Slight Hitch
My reading at East Line Books will have to be postponed — Unikirja won’t be available as early as we’d hoped, so it will have to be scheduled for some time in November. I’ll let you know as soon as I know. I will still be at Albacon (or All-Bacon, as some people have suggested…