Writer and software engineer in the US Midwest. I enjoy poetry, horror, some f/sf, some mystery, some literary fiction (but not the kind where the main character is a professor and nothing happens).
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In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, activist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe …
Queer Little Nightmares is a collection of stories and poems for the monsters in all of us (especially the queer ones). Diverse in style and content, these works are deliciously weird and grounded in emotional truth. Standouts for me include the stories "The Vetala's Song" by Anuja Varghese and "Strange Case" by Eddy Boudel Tan, and the poems "Godzilla, Silhouette Against City" by Ryan Dzelzkalns and "Cryptid Cruising" by Avra Margariti. But they're all worth reading.
A collection of essays surveying the horror genre in English and American literature from the 18th century to today. Sometimes the style is over-academic, but the content is interesting throughout. Every chapter ends with a list of references and a “What to Read Next” section, making it a useful book to keep on hand.
If on a winter's night a traveler (Italian: Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore) is …
Calvino wrote works with more emotional weight, but this book is a cerebral delight for bookworms. It’s about someone trying to read a novel, specifically Italo Calvino’s If In a Winter’s Night a Traveler.
If on a winter's night a traveler (Italian: Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore) is a 1979 novel by the …
I’m about 1/3 of the way through this collection of essays. So far, the quality varies. Some of the authors are too academic for my taste, wandering into irrelevant minutiae and believing that a sentence with two independent and five subordinate clauses makes a banger ending for a subsection. Others write with unpretentious verve. But even the professorial pieces have fascinating passages.
Habegger’s stubborn insistence that Emily Dickinson was straight isn’t the only reason to doubt the soundness of his scholarship in this book. A tedious read that fails to bring the poet to life.
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular …
Primarily science fiction poetry with some horror elements. Plenty of humor and anger and playfulness and pain and thought. Some of the standouts for me: “Perish and Live Forever,” “The Payphone,” “Last Act of a Doomed Man,” “The Things That Killed Us: A History through Art,” and the title poem.
(New in 2025, no star ratings on my reviews. Two of the reasons: 1. numerical ratings are simplistic quantifications of the experiential; 2. I’ve realized my own x/5 ratings have reflected my mood of the moment more than my evaluation of the work.)
