Reactor has published my essay “Poetry from the Plague Pit: The Early Stories of Clive Barker and Joel Lane”, which explores the work of two of my favorite writers of horror/weird short fiction within the context of Thatcherism and the AIDS crisis. This essay is the product of a year […]
I’ve been working on a secret project: a new book. From 2018 to 2024, I wrote a blog called Finite Eyes (the title comes from a poem by Emily Dickinson), where I explored ideas about education, teaching, learning, academic publishing, and open access resources. It was closely tied to my work […]
Today, my latest book is released: Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, with a foreword by Kelly Link. The book collects 19 of Carol Emshwiller’s 150 stories, strange tales of aliens, animals, and humans, stories of war and apocalypse, of ordinary life made extraordinary, of beauty and ugliness interwoven […]
This summer, I have mostly stayed away from writing and instead focused on replenishing myself with reading — and, to further that replenishment, letting go of any feeling of obligation that I write about that reading. So I’m not even going to mention it here! But a couple of pieces […]
I have made my story “Where’s the Rest of Me?” available on this site, and there are ePub and PDF files of it to download for anyone who prefers reading that way. The story was first published in my collection Blood: Stories (Black Lawrence Press, 2016) and was reprinted in Wilde […]
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. […]