Fiction Terrifies People

Book jacket for my forthcoming book            Note: If you wish to receive, via e-mail, (1) my weekly newsletter or (2) daily copies of these posts, write to me at rrbates1951@gmail.com. Comments may also be sent to this address. I promise not to share your e-mail with anyone. To unsubscribe, write here as well.WednesdayI recently completed proofreading the galleys (if that’s what they’re still called) of my forthcoming book, which of course is tremendously exciting. Then I had the slightly ...

Gabriel Smith Writes Like He Has Nothing Left to Lose

The most exciting thing to encounter in the world of publishing is a writer who doesn’t sound like anyone else. I first read Gabriel Smith at the Drift, where our then fiction editor spied his story, "The Complete," in the slush, so it’s been a thrill to help bring out his debut novel, Brat, in my other role as an editor at Penguin Press. Brat is sharp, wickedly funny, moving, unusual, spooky, haunted, textually layered—the adjectives sort of flow endlessly. It’s a book you’ll keep turning ov...

Containing Russia

Alexander Kluge, Russia Container, trans. Alexander Booth (Chicago: Seagull Books, 2022). 392pp., £27.50 hb., 978 1 80309 065 8Russia Container is not a book about Russia. It’s about the images and stories that East Germans had of Soviet Russia before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and after. Alexander Kluge wrote it ‘on commission’ by his sister Alexandra Kluge, who, unlike her brother, lived in the German Democratic Republic after the separation of their parents. There Alexandra learnt...

Vivisystem

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Vivisystem (idea) See all of Vivisystem, no other writeups in this node. (idea) by PureDoxyk Thu Dec 21 2000 at 18:05:26 A phrase coined, as far as I can tell, by Kevin Kelly in his book "Out of Control", copyright 1994. He uses "vivisystem" to describe the melding of mechanical and natual systems; things that are man-made, but instilled with Life's Laws. He believes this to be the eventual direction humanity is heading for: One...

The Prydain Chronicles (thing) by PaladinZ - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Prydain Chronicles (thing) See all of The Prydain Chronicles, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by PaladinZ Mon Dec 17 2001 at 22:02:15 The Prydain Chronicles is a children's fantasy book series written by Lloyd Alexander. Originally published in a 5-year span (1964-1968), the series was heavily inspired by Welsh mythology and legends. Though the setting is more Arthurian than Welsh, the influence comes from The Mabino...

In Search of Adventure and Meaning

On the Road is a 1957 novel that follows two friends, Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, as they travel across the United States in search of adventure and meaning. The novel is loosely based on Kerouac’s own experiences, and it captures the spirit of the Beat Generation, a group of writers and artists who rejected traditional values and sought new ways of living. The novel begins with Sal, a young man from New York City, travelling to Denver to meet Dean, a charismatic and restless man who is a...

Five Surreal Works of Fiction You Probably Haven’t Read… and Slaughterhouse-Five ‹ Literary Hub

Clip source: Five Surreal Works of Fiction You Probably Haven’t Read… and Slaughterhouse-Five ‹ Literary Hub Five Surreal Works of Fiction You Probably Haven’t Read… and Slaughterhouse-Five Isabel Waidner Recommends Megan Milks, Jess Arndt, Kurt Vonnegut, and MoreBy Isabel Waidner February 13, 2023 My novel, Sterling Karat Gold, performs the real-life effects of governmental control and state violence on marginalized people—and it does so by recruiting time travel and fleets of UFOs into it...

Essays on meaning in cinema

Translated from French: -zasDescription of the work: Essays on meaning in cinema by Christian Metz (1931-1993) constitute a fundamental work in the history of reflection on cinematography. The first part of the book (published in one volume in 1968) marks a first step in Christian Metz's effort to found a semiological approach to fact-cinema: he then signs the first encounter between modes of thought inspired by modern linguistics and the aesthetic tradition of reflections on the notion of...

Telluria

Vladimir SorokinTranslated by Max LawtonNew York Review Books ($18.95) by Garin Cycholl They say that those who live by the nail will probably die by the nail—that is, unless the nail is made of tellurium, set by a member of a guild of highly skilled technicians, and driven into one’s skull in a ritual that identifies the exact fold of the brain where the sharp, rare metal can awaken insight. That insight is the rub of Max Lawton’s newly released translation of Vladimir Sorokin’s 2013 n...

Hells Heroes or - The Three Godfathers

The original version of this tale was a short story, "Broncho Billy and the Baby",  which appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1910 and was the basis for an Essanay short film of the same name. The short story  is credited as the basis for Kyne’s later novel ‘The Three Godfathers’ in 1913; an online version is dated 1916 and would seem no longer than the original story. Set in Arizona, the basic plot has a gang of bank robbers stumble on a covered wagon where a dying woman entrusts her ba...

Interacting with Print

Book Title: Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print SaturationAbout this ebook A thorough rethinking of a field deserves to take a shape that is in itself new. Interacting with Printdelivers on this premise, reworking the history of print through a unique effort in authorial collaboration. The book itself is not a typical monograph—rather, it is a "multigraph," the collective work of twenty-two scholars who together have assembled an alphabetically arranged tour of ...

Twentieth Century British Supernatural Novel - 1958

New on Archive.org to borrow, The Twentieth Century British Supernatural Novel (1958). Includes an early positive appreciation of Tolkien as a supernatural writer. And by someone who had actually read The Lord of the Rings (most critics of the time didn’t, something which is obvious from their reviews and comments). The text also has some discussion of Lovecraft.

Post-War Novel and the Death of the Author - The

Arya Aryan's The Post-War Novel and the Death of the Author (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) not only discloses and examines different functions and concepts of authorship in fiction and theory from the 1950s and 1960s to the present but it also reveals, at least implicitly, a trajectory of some of the modes and functions of the novel as a genre in the last few decades. It argues that the explicit terms of much of the theoretical and philosophical debate surrounding the concept of authorship in the...

19 NINETEEN - Gods Signature in Nature and Scripture

19 NINETEEN - Gods Signature in Nature and ScriptureSourceURL: https://smile.amazon.com/19-NINETEEN-Signature-Nature-Scripture/dp/0979671590/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1H803O9FZL1ZA&keywords=Nineteen+gods+signature&qid=1671676761&sprefix=nineteen+gods+signature%2Caps%2C66&sr=8-1 19 NINETEEN: God's Signature in Nature and Scripture: Yuksel, Edip: 9780979671593: AmazonSmile: Books by Learn more https://smile.amazon.com/19-NINETEEN-Signature-Nature-Scripture/dp/0979671590/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1H803O9FZL1ZA&keyw...

Masters of the Lamp

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Masters of the Lamp (review) See all of Masters of the Lamp, no other writeups in this node. (review) by Glowing Fish Fri Nov 05 2021 at 19:58:08 "Masters of the Lamp" is a 1970 novel by Robert Lorry, published as one half of an Ace Double, with the other side being "A Harvest of Hoodwinks", a short short story collection by the same author. "Masters of the Lamp" is a more conventional novel, following a single story for about 130 ...

Typographic Firsts: Adventures in Early Printing, a new book from John Boardley

Typographic Firsts: Adventures in Early Printing ( attr(href) ) How were the first fonts made? Who invented italics? When did we work out how to print in color? John Boardley’s ( attr(href) ) award-winning book, Typographic Firsts, charts the formative early history of the printed or typographic book. Many of the standard features of the printed book were designed by pioneering typographers and printers in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Although Johannes Gutenberg is credited wi...

Fomenko’s New Chronology – Ctruth

Fomenko’s New Chronology Links The History: https://ctruth.today/2019/05/26/the-history-of-fomenkos-new-chronology/ The Bibliography: https://ctruth.today/2019/02/03/bibliography-of-fomenkos-new-chronology/ The Examination: https://ctruth.today/2020/10/01/examining-fomenkos-new-chronology/ Horoscopes: https://ctruth.today/2019/01/18/new-chronology-zodiac-list/ Critiques: https://ctruth.today/2020/01/23/arguments-against-fomenkos-new-chronology/ Miscellaneous: https:...

Wanting - The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

Hilda and the Troll: Book 1 (Hildafolk) Luke Pearson Hilda is...

Hilda and the Troll: Book 1 (Hildafolk)Luke PearsonHilda is coming to Netflix in fall 2018!This brand new paperback edition of Hilda and the Troll offers a fresh chance to read the very first outing in Luke Pearson’s ever-popular series of magical Hilda adventures.Hilda can never sit still for long without setting off on another adventure. She can’t resist exploring her enchanting world—a place where trolls walk, crows speak, and mountains move. The magic and folklore of the wild, windswept No...

Karl Ove Knausgaard

With his new novel "The Morning Star," Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard takes a marked shift away from the autofiction which made him a literary superstar, and propelled the six volumes of his autobiographical novel "My Struggle" onto bestseller lists around the world. The new novel is limited to two days in late summer, incorporates speculative and horror elements, and is written from a number of points of view. This is still very much a Knausgaard novel, though, which is welcome ne...

Indexes, Newsletters, Potatoes, Gold!

Lucy Dallas and Michael Caines are joined by Dennis Duncan, the author of ‘Index, A History of the’, to discuss how we navigate the contents between books' covers, taking in alphabets, concordances, ancient search engines and much more; What is Substack: a publishing start-up or a reboot of a nineteenth-century literary idea?; and the writer and translator Miranda France discusses a new book by the famed psychogeographer Iain Sinclair, which takes us to Peru, in the footsteps of his great-gra...

The Wrecks of Time (review) by Glowing Fish - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Wrecks of Time (review) See all of The Wrecks of Time, no other writeups in this node. (review) by Glowing Fish Sat Aug 28 2021 at 21:22:06 "The Wrecks of Time" is a 1966 novel by Michael Moorcock, published as half of an Ace Double. It was apparently also released in an unedited version, several years later, but I have only read the Ace version. Michael Moorcock is most famous for the Elric saga, a sprawling sword and sorce...

Time and Mr. Bass (thing) by Glowing Fish - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Time and Mr. Bass (thing) See all of Time and Mr. Bass, no other writeups in this node. Return to Time and Mr. Bass (thing) [1967] was a very different year than [1954]. Even when authors or artists were not explicitly trying to [make a statement], the cultural difference creeps into everything, even whimsical [children's book]s. The [mushroom planet] books started in 1954 when [Eleanor Cameron] wrote [The Wonderful flight to the Mushroom ...

Alien III by William Gibson

What happens when you cross a popular SF movie franchise with a popular SF writer? That's the question here when William Gibson was handed the writing reins of the second sequel--a version ultimately abandoned by the moviemakers. Apparently, Gibson gave this two runs, styling each draft after the first and second movies. Neither accepted..  It was floating around the Internet for decades and you can still find it. The popularity of both writer and franchise has created the unusual pheno...

Timeline: The History of Public Broadcasting in the U.S. | Current

Timeline: The History of Public Broadcasting in the U.S. | CurrentSourceURL: https://current.org/timeline-the-history-of-public-broadcasting-in-the-u-s/?wallit_nosession=1 Timeline: The History of Public Broadcasting in the U.S. Public broadcasting in the U.S. has grown from local and regional roots at schools and universities into a nationally known source of news and entertainment for milli...