In June 2019, I traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio for the International Virginia Woolf Conference, which that year had a theme of Woolf and social justice. I delivered a paper titled, “Time Passes: What Do We Do with Woolf’s Offenses?” The paper was going to appear in an academic collection, but […]
A new interview with me has just been published by the Open Book Collective (which I just typed as Open Book Coolective — also true!). My friend Livy Snyder of punctum books conducted it, inspired by the conversation I had with punctum’s Eileen Fradenburg Joy last month about open access publishing and […]
My dear friend Chris Barzak and I were lucky enough to have our first novellas published within about a month of each other: his A Voice Calling (Psychopomp) and my Changes in the Land (Lethe Press). We thought it would be fun to talk about the novella form and our own particular […]
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of leading a discussion with Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy, co-director of punctum books and editor of my punctum book, About That Life: Barry Lopez and the Art of Community. This was part of my regular academic work, as it was a program I set up via […]
Uncanny magazine has now posted a collection of remembrances of the wonderful Richard Bowes written by Christopher Barzak, Sam J. Miller, Matthew Kressel, and myself. Rick was someone I knew first as a writer, then as a person, and he became a friend and mentor. My story “Killing Fairies” was […]
I have a new story available online at The Dark magazine, “Rare Bindings”. This is a story I wrote this fall for a Halloween office party at my place of work, which happens to be a library. A good opportunity, I thought, to write about how magical I think libraries and […]
I thought I might share some thoughts on my new story “The Testament of a Puppeteer”, which I posted to my website yesterday. Today seems the perfect day to do so, as it is Edgar Allan Poe’s 215th birthday, and Poe’s spirit plays a small part in the story’s end. […]
On my website, I’ve now posted a new horror story, “The Testament of the Puppeteer”, a grotesque revenge comedy (though without many laughs). It’s available both as a webpage and as a downloadable ePub file for eReaders. In the winter of 2021, I posted a previously-unpublished story on the site […]
Ends and beginnings. I have no sense of 2023 as a particular thing, and I expect in the future that I will think back to various events and items of the year and not remember that 2023 was their year. Perhaps this is a post-2020 effect. The years feel indistinguishable. […]
In April 2024, Lethe Press will publish a new horror novella I wrote, Changes in the Land. The paperback is now available for pre-order from Lethe, and the Kindle version can be pre-ordered from Amazon. The wonderful cover and a really thoughtful interior design was created by Jeremy Parker, one […]
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 website. Chet always has a great sense of what I will happily write about, and the topic of horror movies is one of my favorites, […]
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 than a year on the festival circuit and a theatrical release in Europe. It was written and directed by Steven Michael Hayes and stars Tom […]
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