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November 14, 2023

Harry Houdini began his 1924 book A Magician Among the Spirits (likely written for him by his assistant Oscar Teale) with a confession: From my early

November 1, 2023

This is the text of a paper I presented at the Modernist Studies Association annual conference, which this year took place in Brooklyn, New York,

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

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

October 16, 2023

I felt guilty packing a bunch of gay male novels and story collections from the 1980s and early 1990s into a couple boxes and putting

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

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

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

September 20, 2023

“The good thing about the novel is that it can really be anything.”—Robert Glück, Paris Review interview (Art of Fiction no. 260), Fall 2023 Novels

Matthew Cheney