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New Traveler's Companion: Tropic of Kimber
Olympia Press has just published, as New Traveler’s Companion #144, my 376-page Tropic of Kimber, which comprises all three volumes of my House of Dreams trilogy that Blue Moon Books put out 200… more →
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New Traveler's Companion: Tropic of Kimber
mhemmingson wrote 1 week ago: Olympia Press has just published, as New Traveler’s Companion #144, my 376-page Tropic of Kimb … more →
The Dress Reprinted
mhemmingson wrote 2 weeks ago: Originally published in 2002 by Blue Moon Books and included in my omnibus collection, The Garden of … more →
SF Studies Issue on Sex and Science-Fiction
mhemmingson wrote 2 weeks ago: The recent issue of SF Studies (Vol. 36.3, whole #109), with the theme “Sex and Science Fictio … more →
Indignation
profmike wrote 2 weeks ago: At the age of seventy-six Philip Roth remains as prolific as ever – perhaps even more so, as i … more →
NaNoWriMo: Post-Crime Noir and A Bra Full of Bullets, Yo
mhemmingson wrote 3 weeks ago: Every year I try to do the National Novel Writing Month thang, aka NaNoWriMo, but I always get side- … more →
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story
profmike wrote 4 weeks ago: Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story by Paul Auster is so short that it feels like something of a che … more →
Victorian Hijinx: Fellowship of Amorous Gentlemen
mhemmingson wrote 1 month ago: A novella of Victorian-style romps, this Fellowship of Amorous Gentlemen, is now available in print … more →
Black Lawrence Press Collection Up for Pre-Order!
mhemmingson wrote 1 month ago: Pictures of Houses with Water Damage (Black Lawrence Press, Summer 2010) is now up on Amazon here. … more →
Review of Native Speaker (Paperback)
psoriasisnaturaltreatment wrote 1 month ago: If you read a great deal, you recognize that only a few books are truly profound and will be regarde … more →
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
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Guy A. Savage wrote 1 month ago: I haven’t watched every film ever made by Alfred Hitchcock, but of the ones I’ve seen, m … more →
The State of American Fiction - Clancy Martin on Bookworm
bythefirelight wrote 1 month ago: Bookworm had an excellent discussion about American Fiction and culture recently. Ostensively, the s … more →
Raymond Federman is Gone
mhemmingson wrote 1 month ago: Raymond Federman, famed post-modernist surfictionist, creator of critifiction, died Tuesday, October … more →
Walter Benn Michaels - 'Going Boom': Bad Economy, Better Books
jetpakjezy wrote 1 month ago: In 1987, the year Beloved appeared, the top tenth of the American population made about 38 percent o … more →
The Round-Bed Chick
mhemmingson wrote 2 months ago: The Round-Bed Chick is a novella in the crime noir/sleazecore vein, published exclsuively as an e-bo … more →
Story on Take the Handle
mhemmingson wrote 2 months ago: Take the Handle is a cool, well-designed e-zine. My story, “Hold Me Please and Say This is Lo … more →
Review of Cormac McCarthy's The Road
John Walsh wrote 2 months ago: Many if not most readers will be familiar with at least the basic premise of Cormac McCarthy’s … more →
A Disclaimer, an Apology and a Calibration
pulitzerquest wrote 2 months ago: Writing this blog has been an interesting experience, in that part of me thinks, “Who am I to … more →
The Art Fair by David Lipsky
Guy A. Savage wrote 3 months ago: Whenever I read a book on the subject of childhood and families, I think of the opening line in Tols … more →
Cover for Pictures of Houses with Water Damage
mhemmingson wrote 3 months ago: Mock-up of what the cover of my Black Lawrence Press collection, Pictures of Houses with Water Damag … more →
