Wm Henry Morris
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gently painting genre (and sometimes lit fic) into a corner; he/him
[also: music on bandcamp as Will Esplin]
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[also: music on bandcamp as Will Esplin]
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@arrantpedantry.com I curated this from Tumblr for you.
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
@arrantpedantry.com I curated this from Tumblr for you.
Great interview, but be careful: there’s a link in there that comes across as unassuming but leads to an academic paper that you may feel compelled to read/hoard w/all your other academic pdfs.
Vajra often puts traps in his texts.
Vajra often puts traps in his texts.
I have a new interview about RAKESFALL up at Reactor! In which I am quite verbose reactormag.com/author-inter...
A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor
"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"
reactormag.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Great interview, but be careful: there’s a link in there that comes across as unassuming but leads to an academic paper that you may feel compelled to read/hoard w/all your other academic pdfs.
Vajra often puts traps in his texts.
Vajra often puts traps in his texts.
I’m not going to title my next story collection “morbid symptoms,” but that’s a heck of a working title for it.
If anyone is looking for something to recommend for any awards you might be associated with, "Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism" by Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social deserves all the awards. Essential reading.
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/r...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/r...
Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism
Zachary Gillan I have been thinking, for obvious reasons, about living in a world of reactionary politics, and about the political valences of the irreal, and about ARB’s insistence upon the radica…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I’m not going to title my next story collection “morbid symptoms,” but that’s a heck of a working title for it.
Ya’ll thought that switching your love from Pride & Prejudice to
Possession is the ultimate form for the matured Austen reader to take.
Not so.
This is the final level (now all we need is an aggressively interesting film adaptation):
Possession is the ultimate form for the matured Austen reader to take.
Not so.
This is the final level (now all we need is an aggressively interesting film adaptation):
Ok ok Northanger Abbey is a masterpiece. I have abandoned my previous condescension towards this novel. I was a sad little shatter-brained creature before but now I have had a change of feelings and spirits and am in perfect felicity.
I am going through it finishing re-reading Northanger Abbey today to teach it this week (for the first time, mind you). I had just had enough of this silly business but now the romance is over, I’m crying and laughing on literally each page. The writer you are Jane Austen.
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Ya’ll thought that switching your love from Pride & Prejudice to
Possession is the ultimate form for the matured Austen reader to take.
Not so.
This is the final level (now all we need is an aggressively interesting film adaptation):
Possession is the ultimate form for the matured Austen reader to take.
Not so.
This is the final level (now all we need is an aggressively interesting film adaptation):
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Ah, yes, early November where if you dress warmly, you're too warm. If you don't dress warmly, you're too cold. And if you try to end up in between, you'll likely just be cold and then warm and then cold and then warm.
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Ah, yes, early November where if you dress warmly, you're too warm. If you don't dress warmly, you're too cold. And if you try to end up in between, you'll likely just be cold and then warm and then cold and then warm.
This starts out fascinating and by the end seems urgent.
Resist the Monoform!
Resist the Monoform!
NEW WRITING: I was curious, so I watched La Commune, Paris 1871 his final film. I was curious, and now I am so deeply sad.
On the democratic modernism of Peter Watkins.
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On the democratic modernism of Peter Watkins.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This starts out fascinating and by the end seems urgent.
Resist the Monoform!
Resist the Monoform!
My story collection Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, which contains some stories, imo, that do things I haven't seen other SF&F stories do: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
My story collection Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, which contains some stories, imo, that do things I haven't seen other SF&F stories do: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
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silence, the silence that can be interrupted by a thought or even a whisper, as a luxury, a necessity, a refusal, a denial, a statement, a protest, a scream, a shrinking from, a standing up, an ambiguity that seeks to lance the boil of all the false meaning being thrust into the world
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
silence, the silence that can be interrupted by a thought or even a whisper, as a luxury, a necessity, a refusal, a denial, a statement, a protest, a scream, a shrinking from, a standing up, an ambiguity that seeks to lance the boil of all the false meaning being thrust into the world
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Never recovering from this page
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Never recovering from this page
Ah, yes, early November where if you dress warmly, you're too warm. If you don't dress warmly, you're too cold. And if you try to end up in between, you'll likely just be cold and then warm and then cold and then warm.
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Ah, yes, early November where if you dress warmly, you're too warm. If you don't dress warmly, you're too cold. And if you try to end up in between, you'll likely just be cold and then warm and then cold and then warm.
I have stalled out for the day, which is a bummer b/c I wanted to get this one section completely finished, but I am now half-way through the first draft & I'm pretty sure this thing is going to work.
November 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I have stalled out for the day, which is a bummer b/c I wanted to get this one section completely finished, but I am now half-way through the first draft & I'm pretty sure this thing is going to work.
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A reading of Percival Everett’s novel James in the context of Jameson’s postmodern pastiche: orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
Post-Black, Post-Huck, and Postmodern: The Dialogic Complexity of Percival Everett’s <em>James </em>(2024)
This article reads Percival Everett’s novel James (2024) within the context of several other works of “post-Huck” fiction that have responded directly to Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. It finds that, ...
orbit.openlibhums.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A reading of Percival Everett’s novel James in the context of Jameson’s postmodern pastiche: orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
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I read the Booker Prize shortlist (again). Rum do, this year - but not uninterestingly.
On the bourgeois novel:
On the bourgeois novel:
The Booker Prize 2025
Many awards shortlists make a statement. Whether by accident or design, the clutch of books from which a given work is granted a particular gong are to one extent clear about – or at least re…
thestoryandthetruth.wordpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I read the Booker Prize shortlist (again). Rum do, this year - but not uninterestingly.
On the bourgeois novel:
On the bourgeois novel:
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This guy gets it
A relic of a time before the Oracle, before the exodus from Oakland. I applaud the audacity of just having a big yellow circle. Is it the sun? Is it a basketball? Is it the 3I/atlas comet? What orb is this? (cc: @oaklandreviewofbooks.org) A dream of Chris Mullin’s flat-top, a Golden State. 10/x
November 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This guy gets it
I was going to say that the weird sad libertarians is the name of my dark ambient project, but really, each is implied by the other
Set an alert for @tressiemcphd.bsky.social columns. Then walk away. You do not have to read the Abundance bros or the weird sad libertarians.
November 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I was going to say that the weird sad libertarians is the name of my dark ambient project, but really, each is implied by the other
I'm not sure I fully understood it (b/c I don't engage much with horror and don't have much grounding in philosophy or theology) or agree with it, but this is the most interesting, thought-provoking thing I've read this week:
Some thoughts on horror, materialism, pessimism, enlightenment. The usual.
matthewcheney.net/blog/the-mat...
matthewcheney.net/blog/the-mat...
The Matter of Horror
If you read a lot of horror literature because you like to be scared, then you’re probably a normal, healthy person. If you read horror literature to fulfill some deeply personal predisposition, be as...
matthewcheney.net
November 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I'm not sure I fully understood it (b/c I don't engage much with horror and don't have much grounding in philosophy or theology) or agree with it, but this is the most interesting, thought-provoking thing I've read this week:
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For anybody interested in Poe, this is a thorough overview of David F. Gaylin's exhaustive study of what is an can be known of Poe's death. I read Gaylin's book a month or two ago and was impressed, but it's ... very detailed. This review does a nice job of sythesizing.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - The Many Deaths of Edgar Allan Poe
muse.jhu.edu
November 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
For anybody interested in Poe, this is a thorough overview of David F. Gaylin's exhaustive study of what is an can be known of Poe's death. I read Gaylin's book a month or two ago and was impressed, but it's ... very detailed. This review does a nice job of sythesizing.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
silence, the silence that can be interrupted by a thought or even a whisper, as a luxury, a necessity, a refusal, a denial, a statement, a protest, a scream, a shrinking from, a standing up, an ambiguity that seeks to lance the boil of all the false meaning being thrust into the world
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
silence, the silence that can be interrupted by a thought or even a whisper, as a luxury, a necessity, a refusal, a denial, a statement, a protest, a scream, a shrinking from, a standing up, an ambiguity that seeks to lance the boil of all the false meaning being thrust into the world
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My new post on Haldór Laxness's remarkable INDEPENDENT PEOPLE, about a poor farmer's obsession with independence at the cost of his family. By turns comic & tragic, and filled with sheep, ghosts & blizzards, this is an atmospheric & riveting novel.
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/i...
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/i...
November 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
My new post on Haldór Laxness's remarkable INDEPENDENT PEOPLE, about a poor farmer's obsession with independence at the cost of his family. By turns comic & tragic, and filled with sheep, ghosts & blizzards, this is an atmospheric & riveting novel.
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/i...
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/i...
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WRYTE
WEIRDE
BOOKES
WEIRDE
BOOKES
November 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
WRYTE
WEIRDE
BOOKES
WEIRDE
BOOKES
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It is a crying shame that Shepard is so obscure.
(Not sure if it's still in print, but the Fantasy Masterworks series in the UK has a collection of all but one -- I think -- of his Dragon Griaule series that's well worth your time.)
(Not sure if it's still in print, but the Fantasy Masterworks series in the UK has a collection of all but one -- I think -- of his Dragon Griaule series that's well worth your time.)
A piece by me on Lucius Shepard's stories of brutal, hallucinatory war in Latin America.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/07/l...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/07/l...
The Forgotten Visionary of U.S. War in Latin America
Lucius Shepard’s hallucinogenic stories anticipated Trump’s war fantasies.
foreignpolicy.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It is a crying shame that Shepard is so obscure.
(Not sure if it's still in print, but the Fantasy Masterworks series in the UK has a collection of all but one -- I think -- of his Dragon Griaule series that's well worth your time.)
(Not sure if it's still in print, but the Fantasy Masterworks series in the UK has a collection of all but one -- I think -- of his Dragon Griaule series that's well worth your time.)
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My take on THE THOUSAND YEAR BEACH by Tobi Hirotaka (tr from the Japanese by Matt Treyvaud), from Haikasoru:
#SFinTranslation
www.sfintranslation.com?p=15552
#SFinTranslation
www.sfintranslation.com?p=15552
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
My take on THE THOUSAND YEAR BEACH by Tobi Hirotaka (tr from the Japanese by Matt Treyvaud), from Haikasoru:
#SFinTranslation
www.sfintranslation.com?p=15552
#SFinTranslation
www.sfintranslation.com?p=15552
A reading of Percival Everett’s novel James in the context of Jameson’s postmodern pastiche: orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
Post-Black, Post-Huck, and Postmodern: The Dialogic Complexity of Percival Everett’s <em>James </em>(2024)
This article reads Percival Everett’s novel James (2024) within the context of several other works of “post-Huck” fiction that have responded directly to Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. It finds that, ...
orbit.openlibhums.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A reading of Percival Everett’s novel James in the context of Jameson’s postmodern pastiche: orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
Me interacting with any ecommerce site/app these days:
I DID THAT ON PURPOSE, YOU JOKERS
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Me interacting with any ecommerce site/app these days:
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It's not AI killing jobs but data center investments
It's not AI killing jobs but data center investments
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
www.wired.com/story/data-c...
It's not AI killing jobs but data center investments
It's not AI killing jobs but data center investments