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Eric Schaller
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Lost and found. Plant molecular biologist. Greenhouse adjacent. Writer of disturbing fictions. Published by Lethe Press.
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zine!
SOFT TEETH #3 out, next month, along with a reprint of #2.
dreams, poetry, art, whatnots.
November 28, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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What a cracking review of issue 11 of ParSec Magazine! Especially pleasing to see @ruthejbooth.bsky.social's brilliant immigration parable The Invitation getting the plaudits it deserves.
November 28, 2024 at 6:02 PM
I don’t know about you, but I’m afraid to throw out, bury, burn, or dismember dolls, all because of horror movies.
November 20, 2024 at 1:58 AM
I drew this cartoon of my brother and me (as their ratty avatars) back when I was in grad school in Wisconsin and he was in grad school in Arizona. It was a gift for my mom and she had it on her office wall in Connecticut for years. Recently unearthed, and I’ve put it up on my office wall at work.
November 20, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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My cartoon for this week’s Guardian books…
November 16, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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Wow. Full two-page spread for Absolution and my profile in the New York Times Book Review today. Amazing.
November 17, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Best heading yet about my lab’s recent research publication on the corpse flower!
Why this US horror fiction writer just spent three nights with an elephant-sized piece of flesh that smells like death
Professor G. Eric Schaller, a horror fiction writer and molecular biologist, was one of a team of scientists on a mission to find out more about the putrid scent of titan arum – the corpse flower.
www.discoverwildlife.com
November 14, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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My six-part lecture series on Cormac McCarthy’s BLOOD MERIDIAN is available for free on YouTube and starts here:
youtu.be/8IF4_F1GslQ?...
Lecture on Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian: Part 1
YouTube video by The Road to Cormac McCarthy
youtu.be
November 12, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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Love this. There are lots of ways progressive people can build community outside of the legislative world. (Marginalized folks have been doing it for centuries.) Fewer policy wonks, more mutual aid.
Here’s my pitch: the Democrats should take a few million dollars and fund free childcare centers and bowling nights in swing districts resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/the-party-...
The Party Should Throw Them a Party
A proposal for how to build a more durable Democratic coalition
resnikoff.beehiiv.com
November 11, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Mira Ptacin for Atavist on the rural Maine residents who ran their Neo-Nazi out of town. magazine.atavist.com/the-crash-of...
How Concerned Citizens Ran a Neo-Nazi Out of Rural Maine
Before he promoted lies about Haitians eating pets in Ohio, Christopher Pohlhaus tried to build a fascist compound in America's whitest state. His neighbors had other plans.
magazine.atavist.com
November 11, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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New - and ever more crucial report - on carceral AI, a growing class of algorithmic and data-driven practices designed to police, incarcerate, surveil, and control people.

Recommendations, report, and beautiful artwork too!
www.carceral-ai.com Spearheaded by @dashapruss.bsky.social
begin | Carceral AI
www.carceral-ai.com
November 11, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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Some thoughts on the new film The Substance, the 2022 Norwegian film Sick of Myself, beauty, bodies, horror...

matthewcheney.net/blog/body-ho...
Body Horror, Beauty Horror
The Substance ends with voices calling out: So beautiful! We love you! You’re irreplaceable! These words are what everyone who seeks fame and attention wants to hear and can never hear enough of. Narc...
matthewcheney.net
November 11, 2024 at 10:53 PM