Monthly Archives: June 2012

Good things are happening over at Fiddleblack. They will be redeveloping Clive Barker’s novella Cabal, with the participation of Barker himself and essays and appreciations from a range of writers and editors. And later this year they’ll publish Apparitional Experience, … Continue reading →

“Go Go Girl” appeared on the first and only album by the New Wave band Nervus Rex.

I was happy to see that ShortList Magazine selected A Cultural Dictionary of Punk (which Publishers Weekly called “a personal investigation into the significance of punk rock, an attempt to inject critical studies with ‘a big dose of chaos and anarchy’ and … Continue reading →

Metaphysical quicksand, here:

The latest issue of Lowestoft Chronicle contains a fascinating interview with Randal S. Brandt about his discovery of a lost manuscript by the author David Dodge, whose 1952 novel To Catch a Thief was made into a film by Hitchcock … Continue reading →

“And that is where I found myself now, across the slate table from a man with such a deep and long scar down the left side of his face that he looked permanently creased.” From “The Evelyn Variant,” a new … Continue reading →