Espresso Shots: Lungfish, by Louis Armand
Lungfish is a weird and wonderful novel, like its fishy namesake, a bizarre hybrid thing, swimming in water and breathing air. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Lungfish, by Louis Armand
Category: science fiction
Commonplace Book: Dune’s Warning About Thinking Machines
“It burned a hatred and fear of thinking machines so deeply into the human psyche that one wonders if that would has yet completely healed.” Continue reading Commonplace Book: Dune’s Warning About Thinking Machines
Espresso Shots: There Are Reasons For This: A Novel, by Nini Berndt
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
Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 2: Personal Taste(s)
Dances with Wolves was a terrible movie. Continue reading Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 2: Personal Taste(s)
How to Detonate the Novel: A Rough Guide to the Later Fiction of Louis Armand
Form follows destruction. Continue reading How to Detonate the Novel: A Rough Guide to the Later Fiction of Louis Armand
Translation Tuesdays: Living Things, by Munir Hachemi
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
Espresso Shots: 404 Error: memoir of a nobody, by RG Vasicek & Zak Ferguson
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
Espresso Shots: Desert Tiles by Mike Corrao
Body horror collides with a kind of digital mysticism. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Desert Tiles by Mike Corrao
Espresso Shots: Roses are Red, Violets are stealing loose change from my pockets while I sleep, by David S. Atkinson
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)
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)
