1959 is a novel by Thulani Davis that was published in 2001 by Grove Press. It is a first-person coming-of-age narrative that chronicles a young black girl named Willie Tarrant coping with adolescence and tensions over desegregation in Turner, Virginia. It’s also a fictional chronicle of how Willie’s community is transformed by the civil rights movement. I was interested to read the novel because it speaks […]
My story “A Hero of Grünjord” was published today in Outland Entertainment’s new anthology Hath No Fury. The book was edited by Melanie R. Meadors and features a foreword by Robin Hobb and an introduction by Margaret Weis. My story is an epic Lovecraftian science fantasy adventure. Nicolás R. Giacondino created a great illustration for it that you can see […]
My forthcoming collection Garden of Eldritch Delights went live on Amazon in late July. According to my publisher, pre-orders were brisk. But then, on August 8th, I noticed that Amazon had changed the book to “not available”. I contacted my publisher and they immediately logged a trouble ticket with Amazon to try to get the […]
Nightscape Press is running a Kickstarter to support their forthcoming anthology Ashes and Entropy. You can back their campaign until noon on Friday, August 31st. The book will contain cosmic horror and noir/neo-noir stories by Laird Barron, Damien Angelica Walters, John Langan, Kristi DeMeester, Jon Padgett, Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, Tim Waggoner, Jessica McHugh, Paul Michael Anderson, Max […]
My new collection Garden of Eldritch Delights will be released by Raw Dog Screaming Press on October 18th. Right now, you can order it direct from the distributor or via Amazon or Barnes & Noble. This is my third collection with RDSP. The first two, While the Black Stars Burn and Soft Apocalypses, both won […]
Recitatif is the French word for recitative, which is a type of spoken performance that’s a combination of regular speech and singing, similar to the German term Sprechgesang. It’s typically used in narrative interludes during operas, for instance. “Recitatif” is Toni Morrison’s one and only published short story; you can read an annotated version online […]
Pnin is a short novel by Vladimir Nabokov originally published in 1957. It was Nabokov’s 13th novel and the 4th one he wrote in English. It tells the story of Timofey Pavlovich Pnin, a fifty-something Russian professor living and teaching in exile in the U.S. Pnin’s life is narrated through the eyes of V. V., another […]
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation: Vol. 1: The Pox Party tells the story of Octavian, a young slave boy who’s a living experiment conducted by the Novanglian College of Lucidity. Octavian’s life as an experiment began when the head of the College (Mr. Gitney) purchased Octavian’s pregnant, teenaged mother Cassiopeia at […]
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor tells the story of a black farming family attempting to cope with racism in Mississippi during the Great Depression. The viewpoint character is Cassie Logan, a 9-year-old schoolgirl who is just starting to realize the depth of the bigotry in her community and how dangerous it […]
