In our morning reading: thoughts on Pavement, remembering Fredric Jameson, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Kristen Arnett on Book Clubs, Literary Dublin, Xueting C. Ni on Horror, and More
In our afternoon reading: advice from Kristen Arnett, a literary visit to Dublin, and more.
VCO: Chapter 38
Chapter 38
I went back to the cabin. As I approached it in the transference toward the evening when the sky was split blue and pink, I recognized it’s importance. Why no roads lead to this place.
One must be chosen. One must be led.
There are few sanctuaries left on Earth. Few solitudes. Ones that will endure forever, and those who take refuge in them survive through the ages of terror and excitement.
Morning Bites: Stephen Graham Jones Fiction, Christine Sneed on Writing, Revisiting Liz Phair, and More
In our morning reading: fiction by Stephen Graham Jones and Bijan Stephen, revisiting the music of Liz Phair, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Juliet Grames’s Latest, Colson Whitehead on Screen, National Book Awards Finalists, and More
In our afternoon reading: thoughts on Juliet Grames’s new novel, the National Book Award finalists, and more.
The Genesis of “Afro-Centered Futurisms”
Afro-Centered Futurisms: A vibrant and approachable book by award-winning authors of black speculative fiction
an essay by Eugen Bacon
It started with a read: Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek (eds), published by Ohio State University Press. I put down this book and contemplated it.
Morning Bites: Nathan Knapp Interviewed, Big Other Book Awards, Zito Madu Nonfiction, and More
In our morning reading: an interview with Nathan Knapp, new nonfiction from Zito Madu and Scaachi Koul, and more.
Sunday Stories: “Catharsis”
Catharsis
by Daniel Seifert
“That hurts,” whined the old man as she brushed his thick white hair.
She sighed and stroked it through the wisps even more gently.
Still he complained. “Too hard. Too loud. Too fast.”