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It’s live over at LitReactor. And it’s in keeping with that write-up I did over at Fantasy Matters a bit ago. And I guess I also kind of winged off the same stuff in my reviews of Freedom and The Last Werewolf. And, hopefully it’s not in any working against my first write-up dealing with all this, “On Genre,” at The Cult. And, I could have even been talking about some of this stuff (though running it through ‘fiction’ and ‘nonfi…
a podcast interview from MileHiCon 2011′ up at Machine Readable. was fun; I’m always kind of awed, talking to DJs who know what they’re doing, who can keep a conversation going, who have done actual research beforehand, all that. or, to say better: I’m the most useless keep-aliver of a conversation ever (unless we’re talking specific years of trucks, or violence I’ve seen done to animals, or books of any kind, or horror movies), so, ha…
Of all the novels and stories I’ve written, only two of them really stand out as an experience. Not at all saying the rest were a chore or a race or a slog or forgettable, any of that. Every novel you write, it’s different, and wonderful, and terrible, and worth it. But the title story from Bleed Into Me, say: one morning I woke with a fever, was standing at the medicine cabinet about to dose myself with all the usual experiments, when I remembered a fight my cousin Stacy had got in once. …
and, it’s from me: “State,” over at the new Quarterly West.…
I know — best journal title ever, right? My “Neither Heads Nor Tails” is up there now.
Also, thanks to a heads-up from Gordon Highland, I just clicked through all the story links over to the right, here. Turns out a few of them were dead:
- “The Complete Absence of Cats is Another Definition for Silence,” from Literal Latte (though I think I ran it through BOMB or somewhere as well — some B-place, anyway).
- the title story from Bleed Into Me, th
first is a bookstore window here in Boulder (Innisfree), second a friend shot to me from Virginia, I think.…