Of Elsewhere
My two favorite fantasy authors, Diana Wynne Jones and C.S. Lewis, both sometimes write about what happens when (often frustrating) “normal” people are pulled unwillingly into fantastical worlds or situations, and how they cope, or, often, fail to; it’s almost a revenge fantasy, though with hope for redemption (hello to Eustace Scrubb, who almost deserved […]
Today brings three very different book announcements of different kinds. First, Apocryphile Press is bringing out an audiobook of The Falling Tower on Audible, with an AI reader** (one imitating a British woman, to get Charles Williams’ accent in the right general part of the world)! I’m a written-word-preferring human myself, but I know audiobooks […]
This year, as I edit Out of Tales, I’m finally getting around to two old bookstore finds: The World Is Round by Gertrude Stein and HERmione by H.D. The first is a children’s book. I would have said “ostensibly” a children’s book, because it’s written in very strange, Steinian, Cubist-inspired prose, the plot and characters […]
Wow, it has once again been a while! The advantage of this? I have a lot (a lot) of material to catch up on. I’m going to touch briefly on a lot of things in this first post, and hope to expand on some (perhaps even all) of them in future weeks. First off, I […]
I recently received the advice (simple but not something I have ever done in a deliberate way outside of classes) to actively study books that do what I’m trying to do with mine. Alas, right now, I do not happen to be reading numinous fantasy. However, I am reading Nietzsche. I’ve written a titch about […]
I miss this blog. I have, as you have seen, found it hard to keep up my momentum, because I’m usually working on so many projects at once: ever-shifting pieces of writing and art, of course, and also a newcomer pursuit: coding. Yes, I’ve taught myself to program using mostly free resources and I am […]
…there are souls so infirm and so accustomed to busying themselves with outside affairs that nothing can be done for them, and it seems as though they are incapable of entering within themselves at all. Teresa of Ávila, Interior Castle, translated and edited by E. Allison Peers What do the following four reads — Allie […]
The last time I blogged about outsider art, author and blogger Maranda Russell introduced herself as an outsider artist. Since then, I’ve come to enjoy her WordPress and Instagram, where she posts visual art, poetry, and stories from her life. Since I just brought out my own book of poetry and self-taught visual art, I […]
I think — I am not sure, but I think — Wallace Stevens is one of my favorite poets, up there with Blake and Dickinson (a various lot!). Perhaps it is silly to have a favorite poet I can often understand only with help (when I get the help, though, it’s so exciting). And this […]
I’m back, ish. I fell behind on my reading and even further behind on my writing about it during quarantine (I got absorbed in fiction projects again). Still, I’ve read some good books, both virtuous and fun, and I hope to write a bit about what I’ve read as well as my projects. I left […]
Of Elsewhere 