
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..
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Gothicka
Where else can Vijay Mishra’s The Gothic Sublime trade shadows with Stephanie Meyer’s vampires and Guillermo ...
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Compulsory Games
Robert Aickman’s Compulsory Games, edited and with an introduction by Victoria Nelson, was featured in Bookmarks/LitHub’s..
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A 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
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Wild California
Victoria Nelson’s stories, set in her native California, link natural settings with characters caught up in events ..
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On 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...
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My Time in Hawaii
Some of my time in Hawaii coincided with Victoria Nelson’s time there. Wonderfully intelligent, hers is the...
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Letters, 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