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Voices from the Street
Here’s a Los Angeles Times review of Philip K. Dick’s Voices from the Street, which I encountered briefly while doing dissertation research on PKD at Cal State-Fullerton. Sadly, I had to focus on other things (there’s a couple of chapters of a never-pursued sequel to The Man in the High Castle there, by the way),…
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Vandermeer on Aylett
The estimable Jeff VanderMeer has written about the estimable Steve Aylett, whose work you should all be reading (Jeff’s too). Let us all join the Aylett Literary Parade.
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Of Zombie Brides and Silver Bullets
Saw the Serpenteens last night at Trash Bar. Man, are they a blast. Any of you who are into monsters or music (which is all of you, right?) should check them out. Afterward came karaoke…
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"Days of Glory"?
So L and I went to see this French movie the other night at the Alliance Francaise somewhere in the wilds of the not-quite-upper West Side (or whatever you call 59th and Madison). Indigenes, by Rachid Bouchareb, tells the story of Algerian and other African soldiers fighting in the French Army in World War II.…
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Art and Aphorism
Maurizio Manzieri notes in his blog that his cover illustration for my 2003 F&SF story “Pictures from an Expedition” (also, as you’ve probably figured out, the title story in my recent collection) has enjoyed a productive life after its birth as an F&SF cover. Maurizio also lets the cat out of the bag regarding a…
Crooked House Fictions 