I stopped sleeping again. Some things that have nothing to do with film noir:
1. An Alphabet of Embers: An Anthology of Unclassifiables has received a story-by-story rave from Strange Horizons. About my story, Karen Burnham says: "[T]he ground is laid to read Sonya Taaffe's 'Exorcisms' in a horror mode . . . But here the potential horror of spirit possession turns out to be something more consensual, and this is a story of immigration both universal (in the sense of those who uproot themselves and settle in new places, what they gain and what they lose) and very specifically from the Jewish tradition." Of the book itself: "[W]hile the individual stories sometimes seem too much like embers (flashing brightly but fading from memory quickly), the anthology as a whole leaves a lasting impression of weight, survival, and beauty." That had better go on the back of the next edition.
2. The Museum of All Things Awesome and That Go Boom is now available in all its adventurous glory. I'll post further once my contributor's copy has arrived. I still like the exhibits.
3. The original off-Broadway cast of Hadestown has been recorded live, according to The New Yorker. I assume I wasn't there the night it happened, since I feel like somebody would have pointed out either Anaïs Mitchell or Stephen Sondheim to me, but I like the idea of the bootleg sound. Like a songcatcher's field-recording. Works for me.
1. An Alphabet of Embers: An Anthology of Unclassifiables has received a story-by-story rave from Strange Horizons. About my story, Karen Burnham says: "[T]he ground is laid to read Sonya Taaffe's 'Exorcisms' in a horror mode . . . But here the potential horror of spirit possession turns out to be something more consensual, and this is a story of immigration both universal (in the sense of those who uproot themselves and settle in new places, what they gain and what they lose) and very specifically from the Jewish tradition." Of the book itself: "[W]hile the individual stories sometimes seem too much like embers (flashing brightly but fading from memory quickly), the anthology as a whole leaves a lasting impression of weight, survival, and beauty." That had better go on the back of the next edition.
2. The Museum of All Things Awesome and That Go Boom is now available in all its adventurous glory. I'll post further once my contributor's copy has arrived. I still like the exhibits.
3. The original off-Broadway cast of Hadestown has been recorded live, according to The New Yorker. I assume I wasn't there the night it happened, since I feel like somebody would have pointed out either Anaïs Mitchell or Stephen Sondheim to me, but I like the idea of the bootleg sound. Like a songcatcher's field-recording. Works for me.
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