Category: Books

• Returning from VoidCon 3

  Oct 12

  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… more ›

• The Horror, It’s Visceral

  Jun 5

  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… more ›

• Sentient Cities vs. Mummer Crimelords

  May 7

  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… more ›

• fifty book recommendations for small business saturday

  Dec 1

  I took a cue from Maris Kreizman and Drew Broussard earlier today and offered one book recommendation per “like” on a Bluesky thread. For posterity, here are the 50 books… more ›

• A Digression I’m almost certainly cutting from a review of Tara Isabella Burton’s “Here in Avalon”

  Nov 29

  As the subject suggests: (Digression: Caleb is the worst. There’s an Achewood strip from 2003 wherein one character describes himself as follows: “I feel like I should be in some… more ›

• Reading “Super-Cannes”

  Sep 22

  I picked up J.G. Ballard’s Super-Cannes to read for a book club run by Archestratus Books that I couldn’t actually attend. (Head, meet desk.) Still: good lord, what a novel.… more ›

• On the Road Again

  Sep 19

  Drove down to Bethesda yesterday for an event at the Writer’s Center, with whom I’d done a virtual conversation earlier this year. (One of the enjoyable parts of this trip… more ›

• Basement Tapes

  Sep 15

  Had a go at recording an audio version of In the Sight this weekend. It was, much like the book itself, a very DIY work. After finishing the process I… more ›

• Theatergoing: “Titanic” at City Center

  Jun 21

  So: last week I went to City Center to see their concert staging of the musical Titanic. I’d seen the original Broadway production over 25 years earlier, and I remember… more ›

• Book Tour Dispatch 006: Detroit, MI/Amherst, OH

  Feb 18

  And that’s a wrap on the book tour. I’m currently in a rest stop on the Ohio Turnpike, catching up on some freelancing and drinking coffee. There’s going to be… more ›