"Democracy Dies in Darkeness," says the Washington Post who turned the lights off on Ann's laudable work. This prize belongs to her, not the Post which refused to publish this illustrated reporting. I will never regret cancelling my subscription when I did.

I dream of day when Robert Galbraith's inane memes are thing of the past. Until then, like her books, happily ignoring them.

It's great to have fantôma fanboys. Future plot device, no?

One in common. The Sheltering Sky is radiantly terrifying (terrifyingly radiant).
Galway Kinnell
Paul Bowles
Joy Harjo
Joan Didion
Adrienne Rich

Love these. Somewhere between the state fair sideshow midway posters of my youth ("Awe to the Giant Jungle Rats-Savengers of the Battlefield!") and the Grand Guignol. You can actually commission an artist from Ghana to paint one. The Occultists...just sayin'.

Some more: In the Birds and Night of the Living Dead, you focus on individual/community responses to the unexplained threat. More terrifying. It doesn't have to be "Uh-oh, you disrupted ancient burial grounds." An argument can be made that a moral lesson is the province of Sci-Fi. Imperative even.