Month: January 2007

All week. Guest bloggery, interview, discussion, podcast. Should be a good time. Click the banner to go to the place:

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• First, and this is important, get Vince Liaguno, the guy who knows slashers so well that he managed to somehow trap one on the page in The Literary Six, to have written just a supercool Demon Theory review over at Unspeakable Horror, then, moments after that,
• find out that Ellen Datlow, she who more than anybody else is probably responsible for you being a writer — her OMNI fiction being your first experience with fiction that was doing something, that was more than just wo

Benson: only the good die young
Cheers: have a good life
“You oughtta know”: grammies
bball–23 sick and scoring 55 or whatever
challenger (jfk/towers)
rockford: 50 people tell you you’re drink, maybe you oughtta lie down
uncle jesse: only one way to go down a hill. STRAIGHT down.
tasha yar: going back
chrissy to jack: save air in elevator, one nostril

pop-up video: bob seger, Screentime
seeing myself on tv: scott, rabies

also: ROCKFORD wins best op…

• “Father, Son, Holy Rabbit” will be in Cemetery Dance 57, looks like — with an excellent/cool illustration ( then “Hell on the Homefront” in #58 )
• “Code,” out in Grasslimbs before too long
• “The Parable of the Gun,” in Clackamas Literary Review
• “The Talk,” in the debut issue of Yellow Medicine Review
• “The Sadness of Two People Meeting in a Bar,” Red Rock Review
• and “Vanity of Open Sp

Everytime I search Amazon, I always end up falling into this maze of lists, each opening to more and more. And I find some cool stuff in there, thought I’d take a stab at a couple myself.

• Slasher 101
• Horror-Comedy

And yeah, that Slasher 101 one really should be a ‘guide,’ but I clicked on making one of those and, man, they’re set up to let somebody write a real and true article. Which, for someone addicted to lists, isn’t nearly as fun. Granted, you d…

Man, turns out Only Revolutions, at 360 pages, was an easy read, yeah? I mean, as compared to three million pages. But it is Richard Grossman, so maybe three million pages is just the right amount [ see below ]. As some of y’all know, I’m always pushing that seventy-page sentence fragment from his The Book of Lazarus as maybe the most beautiful piece of prose in the English language (like I know any other languages — it just sounds ‘grand’ to quali…

Looks like Amazon has me having a hand in a couple of books I only wish I’d had a hand in:

Don’t guess I’ll be getting any checks for them, though. Anyway, just to clarify, this Stephen Jones, he’s pretty much an institution in the horror world, not just some hunger artist like me, trying to see over the fence. Really, he’s the reason I u…

. . . you could never^*say :

• No, please, no — my book would make a terrible movie.
• Actually, I never thought about if this book would outlive me or not.
• Well, I mean, that book’s obviously better than mine. That’s the only reason it’s on the best seller list.
• Of course I would only ever talk bad about a book I’ve read.
• Man, if the reader doesn’t get it, that’s just all my fault.
• Really, I think my publisher may have even spent too much on mar

[ the title and the whole piece here may not make much sense–it may not anyway–without cueing into TheValve.org, which, it looks like, may have the original Marcus article in PDF ]

Just what is experimental fiction, then?

The easiest definition for experimental or innovative or non-conventional fiction is fiction that, both at armslength and upon closer inspection, doesn’t look or read at all like standard, mainstream, commercial fiction. A more …