Chilling conversations! Scalding coffee! Room-temperature Catholicism! Find all this and more in my new short story "Violet," available now in the latest issue of The Genre Society.
Happy Halloween! #writers #writingcommunity #speculativefiction #booksky
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The Genre Society: Issue 6
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October 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Chilling conversations! Scalding coffee! Room-temperature Catholicism! Find all this and more in my new short story "Violet," available now in the latest issue of The Genre Society.
Happy Halloween! #writers #writingcommunity #speculativefiction #booksky
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Happy Halloween! #writers #writingcommunity #speculativefiction #booksky
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Beloved (Toni Morrison, 1987). The best ghost stories have always underscored the blurred lines between the past and present. They force these mutually exclusive states into uncomfortable proximity, and the resulting perversion of our subconscious
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November 11, 2024 at 3:29 AM
The Reformatory (Tananarive Due, 2023). The tag on this book lists it as “horror,” but that doesn't seem quite right. Sure, there is the abject horror of the Jim Crow South, and of course there is the horror of children with absented parents.
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#books #booksky #reading #thereformatory
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#books #booksky #reading #thereformatory
December 16, 2024 at 7:53 PM
The Reformatory (Tananarive Due, 2023). The tag on this book lists it as “horror,” but that doesn't seem quite right. Sure, there is the abject horror of the Jim Crow South, and of course there is the horror of children with absented parents.
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#books #booksky #reading #thereformatory
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#books #booksky #reading #thereformatory
Long Bright River (Liz Moore, 2020). A literary thriller that leans a little more to the thriller side than literary, this book is very readable. The protagonist is a Philadelphia cop who is searching for her drug-abusing sister.
#books #booksky #reading #longbrightriver #lizmoore
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#books #booksky #reading #longbrightriver #lizmoore
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December 6, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Long Bright River (Liz Moore, 2020). A literary thriller that leans a little more to the thriller side than literary, this book is very readable. The protagonist is a Philadelphia cop who is searching for her drug-abusing sister.
#books #booksky #reading #longbrightriver #lizmoore
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#books #booksky #reading #longbrightriver #lizmoore
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Presidential turkey pardoned. Still awaiting word on their crimes from the 1970s are the nation’s jive turkeys.
#turkey #turkeypardon #pardon
#turkey #turkeypardon #pardon
November 26, 2024 at 3:33 AM
Presidential turkey pardoned. Still awaiting word on their crimes from the 1970s are the nation’s jive turkeys.
#turkey #turkeypardon #pardon
#turkey #turkeypardon #pardon
The God of the Woods (Liz Moore, 2024). This is the book you’ve been waiting for. There’s a mystery, but don’t expect the thin parameters of genre here. This is a robust world-building novel.
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November 23, 2024 at 1:46 AM
The God of the Woods (Liz Moore, 2024). This is the book you’ve been waiting for. There’s a mystery, but don’t expect the thin parameters of genre here. This is a robust world-building novel.
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#books #booksky #reading #thegodofthewoods
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#books #booksky #reading #thegodofthewoods
Calypso (David Sedaris, 2018). David Sedaris can perhaps best be described using words like eccentric, peculiar, odd, fey, outré, curious, and, more often than not, hilarious. Forty years ago he would have just been dismissed as a nut (or worse). I rather like him.
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November 20, 2024 at 2:00 PM
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum, 1900). Since my son was born, I’ve looked forward to the time when we’d share chapter books for bedtime reading, and that time has arrived. I’ve primed the pump a bit by telling him stories of Odysseus and Ali Baba, and he’s
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November 20, 2024 at 2:55 AM
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President Biden assures Americans that, this time, the T-Rex containment unit is completely reliable.
November 18, 2024 at 9:18 PM
President Biden assures Americans that, this time, the T-Rex containment unit is completely reliable.
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The Dead Zone (Stephen King, 1979). This was my first time rereading this book since sometime in the mid-1980s. It has aged pretty well, and I rather zipped through it. For a book about a psychic to prove so downright prescient is (and there’s no better word for it)
#books #booksky #readng
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November 14, 2024 at 2:46 PM
A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene 1989-1999 (Tom Maxwell, 2024). They’ve got a Himalayan Bistro where the Hardback Café used to be. The previous spot of the Cat’s Cradle became a typical Franklin Street bar and grille.
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November 14, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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Speaking of the utterly broken Twitter search (RIP), here are instructions for searching on Bluesky. It requires a little more from you, but once you know the prefixes, I've found the search works just fine. bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Tips and Tricks for Bluesky Search - Bluesky
Let’s dive into all the tips and tricks for advanced Bluesky search!
bsky.social
November 11, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Speaking of the utterly broken Twitter search (RIP), here are instructions for searching on Bluesky. It requires a little more from you, but once you know the prefixes, I've found the search works just fine. bsky.social/about/blog/0...
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I'm still stuck beneath a cat and the OTR station that's running (horror-theatre.com) is playing an episode of Inner Sanctum that I've heard maybe twenty times. Luckily it's a Richard Widmark episode and he's the #1 hysterical freakout guy in OTR. He gets pretty goddamn hysterical in this one.
November 12, 2024 at 6:49 AM
I'm still stuck beneath a cat and the OTR station that's running (horror-theatre.com) is playing an episode of Inner Sanctum that I've heard maybe twenty times. Luckily it's a Richard Widmark episode and he's the #1 hysterical freakout guy in OTR. He gets pretty goddamn hysterical in this one.
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850). The last time I read (and, at the time, loathed) this time-honored American classic was in my high school English class. I’ve found, however, that as I’ve matured as a reader, I’ve developed a taste,
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November 11, 2024 at 4:13 PM
The Sisters Brothers (Patrick deWitt, 2011). Sometimes you can become only peripherally aware of a thing, yet already be pretty sure that it will be right up your alley before you dive fully into it. I didn’t know much about this book before reading it,
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November 11, 2024 at 4:09 PM
The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America (Tommy Tomlinson, 2019). I don’t personally know Tommy Tomlinson, but like many folks who lived in Charlotte over the past few decades and read his columns in The Charlotte Observer,
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November 11, 2024 at 3:47 PM
A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles, 2016). Written in an elegant, mannered hand evocative of Kazuo Ishiguru’s best prose, this novel crossed my reading desk at just the right time to help quell the feelings of disassociation and ennui which had become
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November 11, 2024 at 3:41 PM
