Tag: Books

• Quick Thoughts on a Jazz Trio (of Books)

  Mar 9

  I’m back from this year’s AWP, which was an excellent time. And I have brief thoughts on three books with one big element in common. William Melvin Kelley, A Drop… more ›

• Watching “A Cure for Wellness” With Politics on the Brain

  Mar 5

  A few weeks ago I ventured out to a local multiplex and watched the Gore Verbinski-directed Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. I liked it a lot – possibly more… more ›

• Three Steps Beyond: Thoughts on a trio of somewhat recent books

  Feb 6

  tk I heard you like capsule reviews? Here are some capsule reviews. The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett Years ago, I picked up an early novel by Robert Jackson… more ›

• Milemarker 76: A Weird Yuletide Story

  Dec 25

  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… more ›

• 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 ›