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We Don’t Need The Onion Anymore…
I read things like this NYT description of Faerie Magazine and just…well… scratch my head in wonder… ‘‘Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,’’ wrote W.B. Yeats, ‘‘for I would ride with you upon the wind.’’ Had Yeats read an issue of Faerie Magazine, he might have found what he was yearning for: Continue reading
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Feelin’ Gaststättenneueröffnungsuntergangsgewissheit…
It’s become kind of a cliché to say “Oh, the Germans probably have a word for it.” But as Ian Crouch (reviewing Ben Schott’s new book, Schottenfreude: German Words for the Human Condition, among others) points out, more often than not, they do: Leertretung Stepping down heavily on a stair that isn’t there. Void-Stepping Tageslichtspielschock Continue reading
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Free Fiction Weekend: The Race by Jacke Wilson
His wife once called him “a fifth-rate husband, a shoddy human being, and a washed-up Judas.” Now he’s running again. And he needs her support. Readers! A free excerpt of The Race: A Novella by Jacke Wilson is below. Want to read the whole thing? Like free stuff? I also have some free review copies available. I’m happy Continue reading
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