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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Hugo Balls Tagebauchaufzeichnungen aus den Jahren 1914 bis 1921 sind nicht nur Zeugnis der Zürcher …
Ball gives some time to building up Kandinsky as the artistic genius of the age, then says, “It was inevitable that we should meet each other.” In case you were worried about Ball’s self-confidence.
Hugo Balls Tagebauchaufzeichnungen aus den Jahren 1914 bis 1921 sind nicht nur Zeugnis der Zürcher …
Orgiastic devotion to the opposite of everything that is serviceable and useful.
Hugo Balls Tagebauchaufzeichnungen aus den Jahren 1914 bis 1921 sind nicht nur Zeugnis der Zürcher …
Hugo Ball was daDa’s enemy before, while, and after he founded dAda. Nothing could be more DadA.
A masterful translation of one of the great novels of the 20th century
Nothing in the whole of literature …
Hugo Balls Tagebauchaufzeichnungen aus den Jahren 1914 bis 1921 sind nicht nur Zeugnis der Zürcher Dada-Bewegung, sondern auch eines deutschen …
I don’t use stars or numeric ratings in my reviews. I disagree with the author’s interpretations of Blake on many, many points. Often this book made me indignant or provoked incredulous laughter. But sometimes it moved me to tears, sometimes it gave me chills. It never bored me.
In the latest from Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DEVIL TAKES …
I don’t use stars or numeric ratings in my reviews. House of Bone and Rain is brilliant and brutal and moving, Stephen King meets H.P. Lovecraft meets Jacobean revenge tragedy by way of the Puerto Rican experience. The characters are complex and well drawn, as are the moral issues they face.
I don’t use stars or numeric ratings in my reviews. House of Bone and Rain is brilliant and brutal and moving, Stephen King meets H.P. Lovecraft meets Jacobean revenge tragedy by way of the Puerto Rican experience. The characters are complex and well drawn, as are the moral issues they face.
In the latest from Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME, a group of …
Formally and linguistically inventive, emotionally complex, socially engaged. I didn’t always understand the structure, but I always felt the author did: nothing here seems arbitrary. A poetry book I will reread.
An illuminating exploration of 31 incredible women—across art, architecture, dance, literature, and more—whose culture-defining contributions …
Fascinating content, badly written. Some factual errors.
Lori Zimmer, Maria Krasinski: I’m Not Your Muse (Hardcover, 2025, Running Press)
An illuminating exploration of 31 incredible women—across art, architecture, dance, literature, and more—whose culture-defining contributions have, until now, been overshadowed …
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