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2020 in books and music

The less said about this year the better (at the moment and in this space, at least). My current total of books read for the year stands at 136 and I’m sure I’ll finish a few more before year’s end, though they probably won’t make this list, so I’m posting it earlier than usual. I […]

tree of many trunks

A Set of Lines ebook edition

At long last the ebook edition of my novel A Set of Lines is available. The book can be downloaded—free for a limited time—in a reader’s choice of all the usual formats. Many thanks to GPA archivist-technician Nathan Grover for his amiable tenacity in making this happen. For more information on A Set of Lines, […]

the sleek ones

In a new post on the Ghost Paper Archives site, three GPA archivists collaboratively ruminate on the arrival of ‘the sleek ones’.

midnight special [film review]

[Second in a series of ekphrastic responses to the films of Jeff Nichols. First.] Opens on unlikely trio in motel room. Two well-armed men. A young boy sits on floor wearing swimming goggles and industrial earmuffs. Wide open Texas sky at dawn. A speeding Chevelle. On the run. Agents descend upon a cult. They want […]

newly discovered story by bruno schulz

Dull sleep rolled over me like a heavy wagon, laden with the dust of darkness, covering me with its gloom. Then the winter night began to wall itself in with black bricks of nothingness. Infinite expanses condensed into deaf, blind rock: a heavy, impenetrable mass growing into the space between things. The world congealed into […]

‘zones without people’

The title track from Oneohtrix Point Never’s 2009 album Zones Without People—perhaps the ultimate soundtrack for 2020, with other tracks to include ‘Learning to Control Myself’, ‘Disconnecting Entirely’, and ‘Emil Cioran’.

an interview with fustus

Now introducing…Fustus!

review of a set of lines

A Set of Lines has received its first review outside of Goodreads. This perceptive review comes by way of long-time comrade-in-letters and master lipogramist Daniel Williams, aka awildslimalien.

The Immaculate

Over at the Ghost Paper Archives site, the tenacious archivists have accosted an intriguing individual known only as The Immaculate for the purpose of a brief interview session. Methinks Mac could have strolled—coattails flapping—straight out from the pages of a Angela Carter novel…