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SSW: Delmore Schwartz: "Screeno"; Donald Barthelme: "Great Days", PARTISAN...
Can be read hereThe continuing reorganization of the house turns up items I haven't looked at for some years, including this issue of Partisan Review, which boasts of two short stories ahead of any...
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FFB: A WRITER PREPARES by Lawrence Block (LB Productions 2021)
This is a rather belated acknowledgement and review of this fine memoir, by one of the best writers of crime fiction we have had, and one who is (like his colleague and contemporary and mostly sf and...
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Short Story Wednesday: the preliminary TOC for a Best Suspense Stories...
Almost eleven years ago now, I mentioned here, in a review of notable mostly suspense-fiction anthologies having had a promising nibble from a small press publisher, an anthology I'd been mulling...
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SSW: SUPERHORROR (aka THE FAR REACHES OF FEAR) edited by Ramsey Campbell; THE...
Mooning covers...Superhorror, published by W.H. Allen in 1976, as the slim anthology was titled in that original UK edition and its US reprint (the 1980 UK paperback takes the variant title), includes...
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FFB: WORLDS TO COME edited by Damon Knight (Harper & Row 1967); FOURTEEN FOR...
Dutch Uncles: Two Anthologies for Younger Readers:Worlds to Come edited by Damon Knight (Harper & Row, LCC# AC 67-10130, 1967, $4.95, xii +337pp, hc)ix · Introduction · Damon Knight · in1 · The...
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Knoxville newspaper, in 1940, bemused by fantasy and sf magazines:
By J. Zollie Howard, then reporter, eventually editor. From his induction in the Tennessee journalism Hall of Fame.Courtesy Rusty Burke and Bobby Derie.
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A MYSTERY, CRIME & NOIR NOTEBOOK by Gary Lovisi (Stark House 2023/forthcoming...
A collection of short essays from Paperback Parade editor/publisher Gary Lovisi, a companion to his 2022 A Sherlock Holmes Notebook, also from Stark House, in their Reference line. Most of the...
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SSW/P: New MacArthur Fellow Manuel Muñoz quotes lines from Rita Dove's poem...
Renee Shea: The epigraph to this collection is five lines from a poem, “Fantasy and Science Fiction,” by Rita Dove, but I’m not sure how they speak to you about what you’re doing in these...
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20th Anniversary Issues: THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION October...
this issue can be read hereThe Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1969(View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)Editor: Edward L. FermanDate: 1969-10-00Publisher: Mercury Press, Inc.Price:...
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SSW: "Dead Women" by Allie Mariano, PHILADELPHIA STORIES, Fall 2020; Fiction...
Can be read here: https://philadelphiastories.org/article/the-dead-women-second-place-winner-of-the-marguerite-mcglinn-prize-for-fiction/The FictionMags discussion list had a bit of a discussion of...
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SSW: "The Dead Women" by Marguerite Young, AMERICAN PREFACES, V.8 #3, 1943...
stories by Herbert Gold (March 9, 1924-November 19, 2023) and Marguerite Young (August 26, 1908-November 17, 1995)One of Wilbur Schramm's last issues before going into military service at the end of...
View ArticleSome 1949-1958 US television Xmas/related programming of sorts!
US commercial television syndication: THE CHRISTMAS CAROL (sic), as narrated by Vincent Price, and commissioned by television manufacturer Magnavox in 1949 and fed to 22 stations in its first run. One...
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SSW: "A Game of Vlet" by Joanna Russ (the final Alyx story) THE MAGAZINE OF...
Joanna Russ was perhaps less prolific than she hoped to be, afflicted as she was with distractingly painful back problems in the last decades of her life (she noted she could only write comfortably...
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SSW: Fritz Leiber's novella YOU'RE ALL ALONE; WHAT DID MISS DARRINGTON SEE?...
YOU'RE ALL ALONE by Fritz Leiber (also published as THE SINFUL ONES) (and a consideration of other 1950 magazine fantastic-fiction)You're All Alone is the second of Fritz Leiber's three (essentially)...
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SSW: stories by Joyce Carol Oates, A. M. Homes, Richard Matheson, John Varley...
A pair of anthologies from the "turned up in my resettling the flooding/roof collapse survivors", the vast majority of my library, and as one bedroom used mostly for storage becomes Alice's office. I...
View Article1959 Jazz Albums and the Grammys: Saturday Music Club
1959: The Year That Changed JazzThe 1959 ProjectFrom Wikipedia: Grammys for 1959 releasesRecord of the YearBobby Darin for "Mack the Knife"Album of the YearFrank Sinatra for Come Dance with Me!Song of...
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SSW: Jeff Segal and Todd Mason on David Drake, 24 September 1945-10 December...
Drake's portrait on his website;his blog/newslettersThe Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series V ed. Gerald W. Page (DAW, July 1977, 0-87997-311-0, $1.50, 237pp, pb)7 · Introduction · Gerald W. Page · in9...
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Guest SSW: Paul Di Filippo on SPACE SCIENCE FICTION magazine, September 1952,...
It took me months to work my way thru this 'zine at a page or two per night. If I seem hazy on the earlier stories in the TOC, that might be why! But I think I have given good valuations of them all....
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