Author: Alex Irvine
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Logorrhea Podcast and Promotion
John Klima, esteemed editor of this swell anthology, has cooked up a most ingenious and engaging bit of publicity. The way it works is that each writer in the book reprints the bit of Jeff VanderMeer’s story that deals with his or her word (Jeff having written a story, “Appogiatura,” that uses all of the…
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News, Sort of
So there’s a new story, “Mystery Hill,” out in the January F&SF, and I’ve just finished a little something for Marvel, and am currently buried in a much bigger something for DC, but the real reason I had to post was: Nerdgasm! Man, I can’t wait.
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You Have Time for This
That’s the title of a spiffy new flash-fiction anthology from Ooligan Press. I mention it, of course, because it happens to include a story of mine, as well as contributions from Steve Almond, Aimee Bender, Robert Boswell, Bruce Holland Rogers, and a whole pile of other interesting writers. Ooligan is a cool endeavor on the…
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They Write Letters
Fan letters are great, but in some ways a really outraged letter is even better. A correspondent unimpressed by my treatment of the Dark Knight writes: Here’s an idea for your next Batman book – try writing about Batman. I’m on page 214 and stopped caring about Enfer ages ago. I thought the purpose of…
Crooked House Fictions 