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Garden, Quarry, Veldt

I had the chance to read Kyle E. Miller's The Idiot's Garden before publication, and it was great. You can sort of read what I thought on the Dumbo Press page for the title. I brought up Harrison's Kefahuchi Tract novels, and then shortly after, of course, I read The Pastel City. With weird megafauna and metal salt marshes, the world of the Viriconium series would might be the obvious fit for the world of Miller's novel—but I think the animating energy is nearer Nova Swing!
I'm facilitating a monthlong workshop for Literary Cleveland, called "Quarry" Before You Query: Using and Keeping Commonplace Books. Registration is open, and the workshop runs remote on Tuesday nights in November.
I also had the chance to read The Veldt Institute by Samuel M. Moss, the remarkably supportive editor at ergot., and a wonderful writer. I'll have more to say about the novel soon, but for now, I'll just point you to Double Negative catalog page.

"The mascot's head" went up at minor literature[s].
They put up another mascot's head, just down the road; separately, I found the tee with the mascot's head cabossed, charged on the Loony Tunes gurges.
Horrorshow is on air for the summer season, Wednesdays at 1700EDT on WOBC-FM.

"The Horse's hand" appeared in Propagule 6.
Sagittaries, a papercut illustration, was the cover of Centaur 8.
Broadcast recordings from the brief January season of horrorshow are available in the radio section.

"A Sponge for Philip Guston's Tears" appeared in ergot. on 6 December 2024.
All broadcast recordings for this fall's season of Horrorshow are compiled in the radio section, excepting a dismal, double-booked Halloween special; during interim broadcasting in January, Horrorshow will air Tuesdays at 1700EST.

...of horrorshow—which airs Wednesdays at 2200EST, through to about the end of the year—are available under radio.

. . . is a short work out in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 48, which is a dream house for any story, and particularly this one! You can pick up the single issue from Small Beer, or take out a subscription—if you do, I unreservedly recommend Chocolate City!

On 1 April 2024, Calamari Archive, Ink. published The psychic surgeon assists. You can get the book directly from Calamari, or from Asterism. So many thanks to Derek White (who also did wonderful illustrations and layout for this edition) and Garielle Lutz at Calamari—also to Joe Koch and Laura Ellen Joyce for spending time with the text!

An excerpt from my short novel The psychic surgeon assists made it into Sleepingfish XX, alongside company I just can't believe (Sofia Samatar)! You can pick up a copy directly from Calamari Archive, Ink., or from Asterism Books.

Airs on Wednesdays at 1800 EST on 91.5 WOBC FM Oberlin, or online at wobc-fm.org. Sound effects, film soundtracks, library music, heavy metal atmospherics, novelty recordings, electronic props, thrilling chilling sounds, guts-being-mangled.mp3 . . .

"Object markers; or, My death, an irratiocination" was published by Calamari Archive, Ink. in Sleepingfish 2020+.

Ulrich Baer is running his Science Fiction Writing Workshop, beginning in May. It's perfect, and the book list is: Dhalgren.
Rhinoceros—and William Gibson, as William Gibson—in Wild Palms (1993).
In re: rhinoceros, Peter Grudzien's The unicorn (1974)—which Ulrich sent me years ago.

Shirley Collins—and hooden horses—in "Death and the lady", the video released for Lodestar (Domino, 2016).
Jennifer Lopez riding across the desert to Deadvlei, while the Master Musicians play—the opening sequence of The cell (2000).
Gabrielle Wittkop; Anthems in Eden (Harvest, 1969)—cf. Anthems in Eden (Castle Music, 2006); Boy soprano (Non-Standard, 1985); Derek Bailey playing with the radio on Domestic jungle (scatterArchive, 2022); Joyce Mansour's Cris; Peter Lorre in Arsenic and old lace (1944); the magazine Bourbon Penn.

Ulrich Baer runs the workshop The Poiesis of the Wastes this fall: enroll to read Delany's Stars in My Pocket [...] and Anna Kavan's Ice—and, for the sake of yr spec. this workshop is tentatively set for any time now, I think; Ulrich is an incredible teacher, facilitator, collaborator, mentor...!
Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit, April is the Cruellest Month (Blank Forms, 2019): as says Eliot, "My Friend, Blood Shaking My Heart"—when this line makes my book, it's all Takayanagi.
Transversals is reading for Issue #5 Dead Futures: this is the Deleuzian zine, and it's gorgeous always.
The Cardigans, First Band on the Moon (Stockholm Mercury, 1996): entries in hauntology "Happy Meal II" and "Heartbreaker"—the latter with bizarre Black Sabbath quotations.