Monthly Archives: October 2011

Magpie Monday

Happy Hallowe’en! Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Why not celebrate Hallowe’en with some old-fashioned horror-film viewing? If you need suggestions, my friend Andy sent me a link to Slant Magazine‘s list of The 25 … Continue reading

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Star*Line 34.3

My poem “Sealskins” appears in the July-September 2011 issue of Star*Line, the Journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Check it out!

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Catherynne M. Valente’s The Orphan Tales, Vol. 1

I realized, after I had begun reading Catherynne M. Valente‘s The Orphan’s Tales Volume 1: In the Night Garden (Bantam Spectra, 2006; all quotations are taken from this edition), that discussing both volumes of The Orphan’s Tales might be a … Continue reading

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Magpie Monday

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ This week’s recommendation for All Hallow’s Read is Dark Dance by Tanith Lee. The first in a trilogy, Dark Dance is a fine gothic piece, and Lee’s elegant and … Continue reading

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Zoran Zivkovic’s Twelve Collections & The Teashop

Zoran Zivkovic was another new author to me, and I’m happy to have discovered him. His Twelve Collections and The Teashop, translated from the original Serbian by Alice Copple-Tosic (PS Publishing, 2007; all quotations are taken from this text), not … Continue reading

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