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SSW/FFB: some August 1968 magazines, including memorials (intentional and...
William Anthony Parker White, aka Anthony Boucher, among other pennames. But most of his associates called him "Tony"...August 21, 1911 – April 29, 1968...a lot done in 56 years and change.review of...
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"Thanksgiving" by Joyce Carol Oates (OMNI, November 1993, fiction editor...
"Thanksgiving" by Joyce Carol Oates, as reprinted in her collection Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (Dutton 1994) and newly offered in her Substack blog, "Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal"(the...
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Books Received: COLLECTING MYSELF: THE UNCOLLECTED STORIES OF BARRY N....
Three of my favorite new stories in 1978, not quite a half-century ago but not far from it, the year I started reading fiction magazines regularly and probably more passionately than before or since,...
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"*true confessions*" by Vivian Fumiko Chin, BOSTON REVIEW, October/November...
Courtesy LinkedInVivian Chin, as she signs herself to apparently her first published story, "*true confessions*", in 2003 in the Boston Review, as perhaps the first of a series of stories chosen for...
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"She's Not There" (composed by Rod Argent) as recorded by The Zombies and...
The Zombies: "She's Not There" Maeve Lander: "She's Not There" (for Brass Quintet) Santana: Neko Case and Nick Cave: Ola and the Janglers: System: The Cleverlys: "She Ain't There" Dirty Martha: The...
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Short Story Wednesday: Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini: FINAL WAR AND...
Barry N. Malzberg, July 24, 1939-December 19, 2024.Two sorts of retrospective, the kind of fine work Stark House continues to do...from two writers whose work I've been reading for nearly my whole...
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Wednesday/Xmas Short Stories: reviews and more: 25/27 December 2024
John Boston: Amazing Stories, January 1970, edited by Ted WhiteBen Boulden: Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates; The Stark House Anthology edited by Rick Ollerman and...
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Polar Frost (among other Polar sodas) v. Sparkling Ice v. Cascade Ice v....
I'm a Type 2 diabetic (it runs in both lines of the family...I'm the lucky one thus in my nuclear fam), and I definitely love a good soda (to a fault). Hence, low/no-sugar soda beverages will tend to...
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Fotheringay, featuring Sandy Denny: "Banks of the Nile" from Fotheringay (Island Records, 1970) Brian Arnold: Wonder Woman Season 1 opening creditsJayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos...
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Fairbanks, Alaska flood, August 1967
Cushman Street turned into a waterway during the 1967 flood, with people traveling by canoe and motorboat in waters 3 or 4 feet deep. (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Collection)A few days after my third...
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2024: THE STARK HOUSE ANTHOLOGY edited by Rick Ollerman and Gregory Shepard...
Gregory Shepard's Stark House, which has mostly specialized in bringing vintage novels and collections of hardboiled/noir and other crime-fiction classics and "forgotten" (including previously...
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SSW: Robert Bloch: "The Movie People" THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE...
Bloch: can be read gratis from the paperback edition of his collection Cold Chills at this site.Borges: can be read gratis at this teacher's aid site, from the US Bantam paperback edition of the Borges...
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SSW: "Mosaic" by Mariah Rigg, BALTIMORE REVIEW Winter 2022, edited by Barbara...
these can be read gratis at these links:"Mosaic" by Mariah Rigg "Gershwin's Ghost" by Jerome Charyn"Simone de Beauvoir is Living on Mars" by Mary Grimm(sadly, the two AQR pieces at this hour have...
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SSW: John D. MacDonald: "The Accomplice" (a previously unpublished short...
From the FictionMags Index (with page numbers, etc., added):The Strand Magazine [Issue LXXIV, (December) 2024] ed. Andrew F. Gulli (The Strand Magazine, $8.95 US/$10.95 Canadian), 56pp + covers,...
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Barry N. Malzberg 1939-2024: short fiction and other reviews; obituary from...
Syracuse University classmates Barry Malzberg and Joyce Carol Oates at lunch in a New Jersey diner, the Coach House, in 2022; among the items discussed was an issue of a mid-'60s SU literary magazine...
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Short Story Wednesday: the links to the reviews and more: 26 February--with...
The Penny Press fiction magazine group, which PP had purchased along with sibling puzzle magazines and a few others from Dell Magazines--Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery...
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SSW: Bill Pronzini: new HITCHCOCK'S and QUEEN'S mystery magazine...
Today, after hearing last night the high whine and self-congratulation of our highest elected fictioneer go on at tedious, mendacious length and manage to alienate even his closest counterpart in...
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Short Story Wednesday: the links to 4 March and further reviews
Brian Busby: The Contrast and Other Stories by Elinor GlynJerry House: "Wanderers in Time" by John Benyon Harris (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, best known for his later work signed John...
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March Music: What Jazz Records Would You Recommend to Those Who Haven't Been...
Prompted by query on another social medium:John Boston suggests: the John Coltrane Quartet: Crescent...andTommy Flanagan (piano); George Mraz (bass): Ballads & Blues...andSun Ra Arkestra: Nothing...
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SSW: Spring 1992: US fantasy fiction magazines: CONJUNCTIONS (Spring), THE...
33 years ago. It seems odd that I gathered all these a third of a century ago. More specific comments to follow...indexing the Conjunctions issue was more time-consuming than I expected, to say the...
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SSW: "The Frenzy" by Joyce Carol Oates, THE NEW YORKER, 24 March 2025; "The...
"The Frenzy" can be read online here."The Crack of Doom" was reprinted in Pronzini's collection Small Felonies 2, which can be had in print form from publishers Stark House for $7 a copy. (George...
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FFB Redux: LIVING IN FEAR: A HISTORY OF HORROR IN THE MASS MEDIA by Les...
from a 1995 interview with Daniels for Tabula Rasa:Kyla Ward for TR: Just touching on the other non-fiction book, Fear--Les Daniels: AKA Living in Fear--TR: "A History of Horror in the Mass Media."LD:...
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Wednesday's Short Stories: FANTASY MAGAZINE, March 1953, edited by Lester del...
from the FictionMags Index:Fantasy Magazine [v1 #1, March 1953] (35¢, 160pp+, digest, cover by Hannes Bok) []Given as February 1953 in the Table of Contents.2 · Things That Go Foomp · Lester del Rey ·...
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AMERICAN SHORT STORIES: 1820 TO THE PRESENT, edited by Eugene Current-Garcia...
American Short Stories: 1820 to the Present edited by Eugene Current-Garcia and Walton R. Patrick (first edition--of many), Scott, Foresman, and Co. 1952; lii + 633pp. Can be read here at the Internet...
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George Edward Barr, January 30, 1937-April 19, 2025.
Steve Fahnestalk is with Tim Kirk.oSpsndrtoe516lt4lig0il347i1gt05thig7mgclgu3fgglfh3u7860h064t · It is my sad duty to report that my friend, the fantasy and science fiction artist George Barr, died...
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