Horror Movie Playlist for Third Man
October 26, 2023
After my October 7 post about horror movies, my editor at Third Man Books, Chet Weise, asked if I might adapt it for the Third Man
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Jill: A Film of “Blood”
October 23, 2023
Jill, a film based on my short story “Blood”, is now streaming in the US for free (with ads) on Tubi and the Roku Channel after more
A Lost Post: “Reading Raymond Carver Now”
October 15, 2023
In 2018, I wrote a post at The Mumpsimus about Raymond Carver, inspired by Brian Evenson’s little book about Carver’s What We Talk About When
13 Streaming Horrors of October
October 7, 2023
October is the best month. Though, as the month of my birthday, it is one of the more expensive months of the year for me
Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
October 1, 2023
Dad is an inventor. In 1912 his submarine had the world’s record for staying under water. Running as it did by means of a gasoline
Attending a Tale: More Joy in Heaven by Sylvia Townsend Warner
September 13, 2023
I’m going to write a bit here first about a book you are unlikely to read. This of course poses a problem for you as
The Trick of Teaching: Magic and the Classroom
September 9, 2023
Since the title of my recent book is The Last Vanishing Man (and the title story includes historically-accurate descriptions of stage illusions), it shouldn’t be
Telemarketers
August 31, 2023
I expect the title of the new HBO documentary mini-series Telemarketers may limit its audience. Not that the title is inaccurate. This is a documentary about
He Gave Us Each Other: In Memory of Jeffrey Pratt Beedy
June 4, 2023
Today, I gathered with friends, colleagues, acquaintances, former students, former teachers, and former staff members at the New Hampton School, the high school I graduated
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