The swell of my belly increases with each new dawn, my joints all filled with useless fluid, hindering movement and completion of daily tasks. I abhor my present state, but […]
Sub-Genre Slam! Two Ways Of Looking At Hauntings Edition
“‘This house is haunted,’ Claire says. ‘I know if is,’ the babysitter says. ‘I used to live here.’” – Kelly Link, “The Specialist’s Hat” First of all, Brendan and I […]
Sub-Genre Slam! Two Ways Of Looking At Monsters Edition
“In infinite variety, living things appear, and change, and reach the land, leaving a record of their coming, of their struggle to survive, and of their eventual end.” – opening […]
TEASER: Behind With Knife
“The morning they found the body…the bus was quiet.” – Brendan Johnson and Chris Corlew, ‘Behind With Knife’ In the two years since Brendan and I launched Lazy & Entitled, […]
Sub-subgenre Slam! Monsters Who Act Like Slashers Edition
“That’s not all! Because if one of those things gets down here, then that will be all!” – Ripley, ‘Aliens’ Right away, you should be warned that there won’t be […]
Subgenre Slam! Slashers Edition
“It’s almost October, though, and horror is my religion.” – Stephen Graham Jones, ‘My Heart Is A Chainsaw’ Welcome to Subgenre Slam!, a column series I will start today, break […]
11 Chicago Books You Should Read
“I say I’m from Chicago and / folks get excited. I mean, they / light up like they got gossip to tell.” – Taylor Byas, “You from ‘Chi-raq?’” First off, […]
11 Monster Books You Should Read
“If you’re not a beautiful monster, then you’re a villager.” – Stephen Graham Jones, ‘Mongrels’ Not sure what’s come over me, but the urge has struck me to write some […]
Does Your Book Have Buildings and Trees?
“and the days rummaging his eyes / and the nights flickering through a slit / of narrow bars. hips. thighs.” – from ‘does Your House have Lions?’ by Sonia Sanchez […]
No Matter How Bad Things Get, I’m Still Better At Life Than Elon Musk And Jeff Bezos
“fuck it, Dude, let’s go bowling” – Walter, ‘The Big Lebowski’ This has been the hardest column to begin since I started this blog. Usually, when people say that, it’s […]