Tag: writers
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Next at CoRK / Jax by Jax
Happening in Jacksonville, FL From Folio Weekly: Hurley Winkler is good at far too many things. Her CV includes helping produce Swamp Radio and Perversion magazine, and she’s just finished her master of fine arts in creative writing at Lesley University. Jim Draper is primarily known as a visual artist whose work has been seen…
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Contemporary Reviews of Bram Stoker’s Dracula
I’ve been perusing and enjoying The Bela Lugosi Blog all afternoon. I just discovered it today and highly recommend it to anyone interested in Bela Lugosi, Dracula, horror films, or film and television in general. Here are some reviews written about Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, when it was first published in the UK in 1897…
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Interview With Steve Aylett
This interview first appeared on Literary Kicks, May 26, 2006 Postmodern novelist Steve Aylett was born in 1967 in the Bromley Borough of London, England. His first book, The Crime Studio, was published in 1994, and his later works include Bigot Hall, Slaughtermatic and his most recent tour de force, Lint. Aylett’s work has been…
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Magical Night at Chamblin’s Uptown: My Favorite Bookstore Turns 40
To use an old cliche, a good time was had by all at Chamblin’s Uptown, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the opening of legendary bookstore Chamblin Bookmine. There was food, drinks, readings, celebration, and camaraderie, all surrounded by books of every kind, both new and used, on shelves, walls, countertops, and in people’s hands. I…
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Rupert Holmes Discusses The History of The Mystery of Edwin Drood Musical
Back in the 80s, I took a college course called Victorian Detective Literature. One of the assignments was to write an ending to The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the novel that Charles Dickens was working on when he died, leaving the book unfinished. I’m sure college students all over the country have received the…
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You CAN go Home Again
The small town of Hansburg in my novel, Tamper, is based on the town of Christiansburg, Virginia, where I was born and raised. In the book I call the town Hansburg because back in 1790, Christiansburg was known as “Hans Meadow.” On a recent visit to my mother and brother, who still live in Christiansburg, I had the good…
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From Xanadu to the Interzone
From The Lazarus Corporation, Paul Hawkins talks with Michael Stevens about his book, The Road to the Interzone: Reading William S. Burroughs Reading. Paul Hawkins: This supposition that JL Lowes had regarding his work on Coleridge began to resonate with you Mike and you cover that in your essay The Bladerunner and The…
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Weird Fiction is Thriving on the Vine
Great good news! Ann and Jeff VanderMeer have launched a very promising online journal dedicated to the examination and enjoyment of outré literature, called Weird Fiction Review. Not only does the first issue contain an interview with Neil Gaiman, I see on GalleyCat that “the journal will maintain a ‘symbiotic relationship’ with S.T. Joshi’s print journal, The Weird Fiction Review.”…
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Souls on Paper: Nikolai Gogol on Bogus Financial Schemes
Some images in the above collage were taken from The Overcoat & Selected Stories, Special Edition, published by Special Edition Books, and Dead Souls, the Yale Edition Gogol’s Dead Souls is a perfect analogy for today’s economy. Instead of buying junk bonds, the main character in Dead Souls purchases the names of peasants who have died but…