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Dare I Read?, the booklog of Glenn Ingersoll
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Being the booklog of Glenn Ingersoll, poet, hunger manager, and cloud watcher, in which he returns via hoarded documents to a lot of old books he barely remembers and tries to figure out what they did to him.
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Jonathan London
For twenty years I’ve remembered two things about the Anthology of Magazine Verse 1980 -- that there’s a poem in it that uses imagery from The Wizard of Oz, and that there’s a poem in it by Jona...
The stamp that made an impression
Reading “The Super Alkaloid”, one of the short stories collected in Spectral Snow: the dark fantasies of Jack Snow, I found myself experiencing a little flash of déjà vu. I read the following:...
a fateful deficit
I found a bag of purchases from the 2004 Alternative Press Expo. It was hiding behind the mountain of sampler CDs I just finished selling off (and giving away). One of the items in the bag was a colle...
diary, 5/18/87 – 2/16/88
Some dating (mostly unsatisfying), a few parties. Summer I took a swim class. I remember shivering in the pool – got my first leg cramp! A friend attempted suicide. Pills. I phoned him at the hospit...
Winkie Convention haul
Kent & I went to the Winkie Convention last month, weekend of the 6th, 7th and 8th. Haven’t been to Winkie in years. 12 years. I’ve kept sending in my Oz Club dues. But going to Winkies hadn’t s...
The Witches of Eastwick
from the diary: 'Thursday 7/2/87'[Greg and I] went to [the movie version of] The Witches of Eastwick, which ain't much like the book at all. But was fun anyway.'John Updike has a reputation as a liter...