Monday, June 9, 2025

258. “Flame,” Sula, & etc. } for Melinda M.

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10/19/1993  Of all the heavens of the Earth, I had to choose this one, the Earth spelled with a small “yes.”  10/26/1993  Tiffany’s work-stu...
Sunday, January 5, 2025

257. Another glossary } of haunting.

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 ——from Handbook of Autoethnography , eds. Jones, Adams, & Ellis: “A Glossary of Haunting” by Eve Tuck & C. Ree. An artist’s stateme...
Sunday, November 17, 2024

256. Bill Knott } is a terrible poet.

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On the back of Nights of Naomi (Barn Dream, 1971), a quote—attributed to “Bill Knott (1940 – 1966)” —declares: “I consider ‘Nights’ my firs...
Friday, August 9, 2024

255. Great horror stories? } & Necronomicon.

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  What is Betty M. Owen’s 11 Great Horror Stories ? Did human beings write the two Amazon reviews of this anthology? (“Eleven very good shor...
Saturday, July 6, 2024

254. Readercon } Horror into the Classics.

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 “…pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like the wilful travellers of Lapland, who refuse to wear colored gl...
Monday, May 6, 2024

253. Libraries & } un-encampment.

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  [04–27–24] Leave the Richards Memorial Library b/c a woman, w/ a recent issue of  Rolling Stone magazine, sits glowering & wheezing b...
Thursday, April 25, 2024

252. Eye & } encampment.

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Red “X” over “The First Baptist Meeting House”—& a red, crying eye over its spire. Tired & jittery. Walk through Brown University en...