There Are Reasons For This possesses a strange beauty. It tells a sad yet joyous love story amid ecological apocalypse and global economic collapse. Continue reading Espresso Shots: There Are Reasons For This: A Novel, by Nini Berndt
Dances with Wolves was a terrible movie. Continue reading Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 2: Personal Taste(s)
Form follows destruction. Continue reading How to Detonate the Novel: A Rough Guide to the Later Fiction of Louis Armand
Living Things is a socioeconomic critique of industrial agriculture, but can also be read as Cronenberg-style body horror. Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: Living Things, by Munir Hachemi
The short novel shifts between comedy and horror, commentary and meta-commentary, wetware and meatspace. Continue reading Espresso Shots: 404 Error: memoir of a nobody, by RG Vasicek & Zak Ferguson
Body horror collides with a kind of digital mysticism. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Desert Tiles by Mike Corrao
Pop culture, politics, science fiction, and everyday surrealism combine into tiny literary confections. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Roses are Red, Violets are stealing loose change from my pockets while I sleep, by David S. Atkinson
CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK: SOME THOUGHTS ON DUNE (2021) Neither a “hot take” nor a full-blown movie review, this essay is more inchoate and formless. More a chance to ruminate on the current blockbuster. Media analysis at its most impressionistic; less a … Continue reading CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK: SOME THOUGHTS ON DUNE (2021)
I have’t posted in six months. What gives? Continue reading BLOG UPDATE: END OF HIATUS, AN EXPLANATION
“Accessible, challenging, and fun by turns, Speculative Los Angeles possesses everything a fan could want.” Continue reading Speculative Los Angeles, by Denise Hamilton @ nyjb
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