The Secret Life of Puppets`
The Secret Life of Puppets is one of the most important and inspiring books I’ve read in many years. Ranging widely in the imagination..
Read moreGothicka
Where else can Vijay Mishra’s The Gothic Sublime trade shadows with Stephanie Meyer’s vampires and Guillermo ...
Read moreCompulsory Games
Robert Aickman’s Compulsory Games, edited and with an introduction by Victoria Nelson, was featured in Bookmarks/LitHub’s..
Read moreA Bestiary of My Heart
King Cobra. Draculess. Son of the Pope. Black leather cats. Panther-parrots. A wild child. An eighty-year-old woman eight months pregnan
Read moreWild California
Victoria Nelson’s stories, set in her native California, link natural settings with characters caught up in events ..
Read moreOn Writer’s Block
It’s a pleasure to recommend Victoria Nelson’s now classic little book . . . which has so much to inspire interest the unblocked writer as well...
Read moreMy Time in Hawaii
Some of my time in Hawaii coincided with Victoria Nelson’s time there. Wonderfully intelligent, hers is the...
Read moreLetters, Drawings and Essays of Bruno Schulz
Schulz in his fiction everywhere strives to physicalize sensation, rendering atmospheres into ”plasmas,” showing skies to be weighty accumulations...
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Blogs & Writings
“Gold in the Gullet,” review of Vladimir Sorokin’s Telluria, Times Literary Supplement, August 6, 2022
August 6, 2022