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Once more, I’ve written a strange seasonal yarn for Jon Solomon’s 25-Hour Holiday Radio Show. Here we were, 76 miles from the end of the Parkway. A clear night on Christmas Eve. Washburn told me it was important to look for them at the right time. “If no one was watching, they’d come out on
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Spend much of the weekend in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania at the third installment of VoidCon. I had very little sense of what to expect going in, other than the involvement of some indie presses whose recent output has left me impressed. The idea of going to central PA (to my dad’s alma mater, even) for a
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You can tell a story set in the distant future or in a fantasy world using virtually any medium imaginable, but prose has one advantage over many of its compatriots: writers don’t have to worry about disappointing visual effects. There’s a point in the 1968 occult thriller The Devil Rides Out where the film’s heroes
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This might be the beginning of a recurring feature where I write about, well, recent cultural experiences I’ve had. Octet at Hudson Valley Shakespeare I probably have an essay in me on my conflicted relationship with musicals. For a long time, that translated into me being Not a Musicals Guy. That wall has gradually broken
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Sometimes, by complete coincidence, you end up watching two different movies set after the end of the world. Sometimes those two movies, though stylistically very different, are weirdly complementary. And so you’re left with little choice but to write about them. A positive review from Bilge Ebiri piqued my interest in In the Lost Lands,
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thoughts on two very unsettling books featuring many, many bugs Joe Koch, Invaginies Some years ago, during a point in time when I was listening to a lot of The Soft Boys, I suggested that some ambitious editor should commission a horror anthology based on the band’s music. Mostly, I had their song “Kingdom of
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Trying to write a bit more about older books I read, so: quick thoughts on two SF novels that could be described as cult classics that I finally got around to reading in recent months. John Shirley, City Come A-Walkin’ I’m not sure I’ve read anything by John Shirley since my teenage years, when I
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In the last two weeks, I saw three films on the big screen that all left me very impressed. I haven’t done a year-end movie list in a while; still, I’m pretty sure these three will be at or near the top of it. So here are some quick thoughts on all three. SINNERS; written
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This one’s going to require some context. Earlier this week I went to a 1994-themed writing event where among the prompts was one by the esteemed Nicole Haroutunian. The prompt involved using lyrics from a beloved song in a longer work. This is not the thing I wrote that night, but I gave it another
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