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Short Story Wednesday +: Links to the reviews and more: Juneteenth 2024
Patricia Abbott's regular weekly linksAmbrose Bierce: "A Baffled Ambuscade" and "Two Military Excursions"Ben Boulden: Three Strikes--You're Dead!: 14 Great Sports Mysteries edited by Donna Andrews,...
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Short Story Wednesday: WEIRD TALES, March 1943, edited by Dororthy...
A while back, I did a quick survey of the two U. S. newsstand fantasy fiction magazines, F&SF and Fantastic, that had produced 20th Anniversary issues in 1969 and 1972, respectively. Both...
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SSW: DARK AT HEART edited by Karen and Joe R. Lansdale (Dark Harvest 1992);...
Two gray books. Or, at least, two gray jackets. Lord John Ten ed. Dennis Etchison (Lord John Press 0-935716-43-2, 1988, $25.00, 240pp, hc) Largely original anthology of 35 stories, poems, articles, and...
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FFB: THE STORY OF STORY MAGAZINE by Martha Foley (assembled and notes added...
A redux post, sparked by Jay Neugeboren's new essay in The American Scholar (Summer 2024) about his helping the granddaughters of Martha Foley finally meet each other, as the children of her long-dead...
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New Jersey federal ballot so far, Statewide/1st Congressional District
How things are going in NJ politics...Courtesy BALLOTPEDIA: *indicates Will win in NJ and/or NJ 1st CongressionalFEDERALPresident of the United States (aside from, so far as we can guess, *Kamala...
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SSW: WORLD LITERATURE TODAY July 2024: International Horror in Translation,...
Table of Contents (and links to WLT online):Editor’s Noteby Daniel SimonInternational Horror in TranslationESSAYIntroduction: International Horror Fiction in Translationby Rachel CordascoFICTION"Death...
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Short Story Wednesday plus: links to the reviews: week of 7 August 2024
Patricia Abbott: a reading of W. Somerset Maugham's "A Friend in Need" from Cosmopolitan April 1925, as "The Man Who Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly"Frank Babics: "Passengers" by Robert SIlverberg, from Orbit 4...
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SSW: "She-Bear" by Janet Fox, a "lost"/unreprinted Arcana story, FANTASTIC...
The FictionMags Index entry for this issue:Fantastic Stories [v23 #2, January 1974] (60¢, 132pp, digest, cover by Esteban Maroto) 6 · The Earth of Nenkunal · Howard L. Myers · na; given as by Howard L....
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Short Story Wednesday+: links to the reviews for the week of 14 August 2024
Short Story Wednesday:Patricia Abbott: "How to Talk to Your Mother" by Lorrie Moore, first published in her collection Self Help (1985). The story can be read here.Jerry House: "Gynecologia" by Gilbert...
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Short Story Wednesday: "Angels and Saints" by Bobbi A. Chukran (Undertaker...
"Angels and Saints" is one of the first stories to be offered, as a free download, from an upcoming sequel ebook/bound paper anthology to the Undertaker Books anthology Stories to Take to Your Grave,...
View ArticleLaurie Kilmartin: Stand Up At THE TALK (CBS 11 October 2024)
A good short set!Philadelphians and visitors can see Laurie Kilmartin at Helium 2 November...and Maria Bamford on several days in late October in the same club. And, with luck, you won't be seated next...
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Short Story (and Novella) Wednesday: Fritz Leiber: SWORDS AND DEVILTRY (Ace...
The 1973 second edition, the version I've had for some decades:Swords and Deviltry collects, in terms of narrative or internal chronology, the first three fantasy stories of the swordsmen, thieves and...
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Wednesday's Short Stories (and related fiction): Abbott Vacation Edition: 30...
John Boston: Amazing Stories, November 1969, edited by Ted WhiteJerry House: Astounding Science Fiction, October 1949, edited by John W. Campbeli, Jr. (a birthday post); Miss Pickerell short...
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Wednesday Short Stories (on Thursday, due to recounts): Avram Davidson,...
A redux post from 31 July 2009. Comments can be seen here.Cover painting by Leo and Diane Dillon. This issue can be read here.From the F&SF index--not a perfect tool, as one of the mistakes in...
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Guest Post: Kate Jackson: "Top Ten Tips for Private Eyes"
Ms. Jackson's informed and engaging blog, Cross-Examining Crime, is a regular stop for me, and she is having a bit of blog tour in support of her latest book,How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel (The...
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Jorge Luis Borges, Karen Joy Fowler, Clarice Lispector, Thom Jones: Short...
Outsiders"Doctor Brodie's Report" by Jorge Luis Borges (as translated by Norman Thomas DiGiovanni and Borges, originally <<El informe de Brodie>>), The Atlantic Monthly, January 1971,...
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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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