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I’m not sure I can recommend Raymond Roussel’s Impressions of Africa, as much as I love the book myself.

Richard Crashaw (1613 – 1649) has always been considered the Metaphysical Poets’ resident odd-ball.

Over the course of his life Edgar Lee Masters published, according to wiki, twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels, and six biographies. The Spoon River Anthology (1915) is the only thin...

Many people wonder why the death of Jesus is symbolized by a giant rabbit that goes around tossing chocolate eggs into the underbrush.

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Here’s an interesting fact about John Milton.

I sometimes feel I am neglecting the contemporary horror/sci-fi/speculative scene on this blog.

Horror, Horrible, or Another Bret Easton Ellis Novel?

The promise and pitfalls of using AI tools to boost my capabilities as a scientist

A Story by Me

We’ve been studying it for over 35 years and still don’t really understand it

My wife and I have been together nearly three decades.

My wife and I have been together nearly three decades.

This week I am going to write about three books that don’t have much in common outside of the fact that the writer (sometimes abetted by their publisher) played a kind of bait-&-switch in order to get...

When I went to University in the 1980s, if you took (or were forced to take) a CanLit course, you would be assigned a book of short-stories by Alice Munro. For me it was Who Do You Think You Are? Even...

ICE agents were seen using long-range weapons in a face-off against peaceful protesters in Minneapolis as the Trump administration's crack down in the city continues

Raymond Roussel was one of the early 20th centuries great eccentrics, and perhaps one of its most important writers, or maybe just an interesting kook.

Yeah, I know it isn’t a book, but…

This isn’t a book review.

Haggard's Last Hurrah, Almost

This was originally published on my Substack, Spoilers Ahead!  You can read it there .  It could use the views.  But Substack in my experie...

You’d think it should.

I’ve been thinking about Atlantis quite a bit lately, partly because I just read Francis Stevens’ novel Claimed!

Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.

Maher said he made a “great choice” to stop doing comedy tours, because he could “get shot” in the current political climate from anyone.

Calcidius On Demons

The Rise and Fall of Homo Pampeanus

Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft.  He carefully hedges the probability that it is a spacecraft ...

Just a quick life update.   As some of my readers may know,   I have published short stories here and there over the decades, and have been...

Gertrude Barrows Bennett (Francis Stevens)

I was reading The Conversions (1962) by Harry Mathews a few weeks back, and wondering about Surrealism as a genre. I mean, you’d think that Surrealist expression, which is sometimes conceived of as me...

As an author, Robert Graves did a bit of everything.

The Politics of Outer Space