Category: Books

• Book Tour Dispatch 001: Somerset, PA / Columbus, OH

  Feb 6

  Hello! I’m touring again. Solo, this time. The last time I did anything on this scale it was 2017 and duncan b. barlow and I got in his manual transmission… more ›

• A Cover & An Interview

  Oct 19

  A while back, I mentioned that Transitory is being reissued with some extra stories (think of it as the CD version of an LP and a 7″) by 7.13 Books… more ›

• Festival Life

  Oct 2

  I don’t think I’d realized how much I missed the Brooklyn Book Festival until yesterday. That has something to do with the fact that there was an iteration of the… more ›

• A Brief Update on Some Books

  Aug 18

  In case anyone’s been wondering… Just finished some edits and tweaks to the new edition of Transitory that 7.13 Books will be publishing in the coming months. I’m told that… more ›

• Getting Gothic With Jeff Noon

  Jul 12

  In 2020, I did a deep dive into Jeff Noon’s fiction for Tor.com. (Evidence the pandemic has destroyed my sense of time: that sentence initially began with the words “last… more ›

• A Pleasant Surprise

  Jun 26

  Was pleasantly surprised to learn that my novel Ex-Members is one of the finalists for this year’s Big Other Book Award for Fiction. The book’s in great company, alongside work… more ›

• Read Wolfe Read

  Feb 20

  Ages ago I picked Gene Wolfe’s Free Live Free for a book group I was in at the time and then utterly failed to read the book when it came… more ›

• Taught a course this week.

  Feb 3

  This week I made my way to Frenchtown, NJ to teach a class at Frenchtown Bookshop. I’m eternally grateful to the store’s owner and the attendees for being understanding when… more ›

• Patrick Leigh Fermor, But Occult

  Dec 27

  “A few days after he had sent the Cuxa postcard, he read her some chapters from the autobiography of Michael Ashman, a minor travel writer who had walked across Europe… more ›