“City magic is liminal. It likes the hidden stories, the perceptual-conceptual shifts, the space between metaphor and reality.” – N.K. Jemisin, ‘The World We Make’ Hello from Baltimore! Or maybe […]
Friday Links: Cities Are Great Edition
“Bronca likes this view, though, because it makes clear that New York is a city of people, not its businesses and landmarks…they all gotta eat, educate their kids, sleep, and […]
Friday Links: Start The Year With Malarkey
“With everything that happened, she now fully believed Charlie’s story. She shivered, as the reality of everything agitated her that much more deeply.” – Lauren Bolger, ‘The Barre Incidents’ What […]
Sub-Genre Slam! Horror Comedy Edition
“Yes she was in a great deal of pain but then we cut off her head and put a stake through her heart and she found peace” – Dr. Van […]
Sub-Genre Slam! Body Horror Edition
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 […]
Friday Links: What Even Is Control Edition
“’The fish rots from the head.’ Fish rotted all over, cell corruption being nonhierarchical and not caste-driven, but point taken.” – Jeff VanderMeer, ‘Authority’ Second week of October—how spooked are […]
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 […]
Friday Links: Annihilation Edition
“The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?” – Jeff VanderMeer, ‘Annihilation’ […]
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, […]