Fellow ghost story aficionados, I need your help. I read a short story years ago that I *believe* dates to the very early 20th c about a skeptic who goes to a seance and ends up being haunted by an invisible entity that feels like a hairless animal and has a musky smell. I can't find it anywhere.
1. During a meeting held on Friday (17), members of Sri Lanka's state run Arts Council & State Literary Sub-Panel refrained from stating their opinion on the decision made in late march by Customs Dept. to detain 360 copies of 5 books written by acclaimed Tamil writer Theepachelvan Piratheepan. 🧵
Four years in the making, my grand plan is realized at last: you can now technically eat a complete breakfast with the covers of my horror novels.
ICYMI pre-orders are LIVE for the audiobook of The Wingspan of Severed Hands!
just read a couple stories and I'm hooked on the style. this author might become an auto-buy.
it seems something about the written word is just sufficiently alienating to make it feel like a whole different thing
also "this isn't art, I could do this!"
but that would go the other way, right? people who *only* like first-person narratives and find anything else too "distancing"
always wondered if this (uncommon but not rare) tendency is about inexperienced readers (usually that goes the other way around, though) or readers with a particular turn of mind (similar to the whole thing about aphantasia and the different degrees to which people can visualize in their mind's eye)
“Witherspoon said she was with 10 women at a book club this week. “I said to the 10 of them, ‘How many of you guys use AI?’ And only three of them used AI.” Well done the other seven!
authors are saying they 'ardly know 'er spoon
Ironically, this is a good description of model collapse, which makes the described argument yet another example (c.f. "stochastic parrot" &c.) of clankwank that willfully projects the failures of their technology inward as diminishments of the human.
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I missed this announcement how?!
if you are somehow not aware, Kuzhali Manickavel is one of the best and weirdest writers of our age, and, without even having read it, I guarantee that her first novel will be incredible and renew your faith in the human capacity to art. Preorder instantly pls 👇🏾
The fact that a company can pivot from shoes to AI shows just how bullshit AI is
Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair in conversation (in Alan's living room) about Long London youtu.be/Ccyy42oR4mk?...
I am still assuming it is
… thus inventing modernity
what ties these disparate headlines together is Anatoli Bugorski, who in 1978 had a high-energy proton beam zapped through his head, burning out parts of his brain, giving him seizures, facial paralysis, and tinnitus, but surprisingly, neither killing him nor preventing him from going back to work
Cancel Reply Forbidden Jay Bluesky is made with Al, the engineers and even some non-engineers use Claude code Can you ask them to stop?
Asking the forbidden question
something something dragging the sacred through the darkness and filth
hopepunk/squeecore finally went mainstream and they called it something else www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Screenshot of Lord of the Rings. The main character says "All right, then. Keep your secrets."
I was MADE FOR THIS QUESTION!!!
@vajra.me's SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS is a brilliant deconstruction of Chosen Ones and trauma imparted to us by our parents.
Someone else mentioned @marthawells.com but let me tell you, the Rising World (two books out) is some of the best epic fantasy I've ever read.
Sour Cherry is a Locus Award finalist! 🍒 Thank you to everyone who voted and massive congrats to all fellow finalists!
Congrats Locus finalists!!!! 🔥
If I were to pick the best 2 books I've read in the past 5 yrs, it would be these. @vajra.me @sapphomancer.bsky.social 🌈📚
Where 'best' = has something meaningful to say and does it with interesting and unconventional prose and structure.
Both of these books had me wondering...(1/2)
Against a red background, cover art for THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by Vajra Chandrasekera and METAL FROM HEAVEN by August Clarke.
We're delighted to see two Solaris books - @vajra.me 's THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS and @sapphomancer.bsky.social 's METAL FROM HEAVEN included in the Goodreads Editors' Top Fantasy Picks of the Past 5 years!
www.goodreads.com/blog/show/3089
What are everyone's favorite books/papers of lit theory/narratology/rhetoric/poetics/etc? Asking for a friend who's an autodidact in this area and in a rut and running up against the limits of his knowledge and in constant danger of reinventing the wheel.
