Category: articles
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LJ Cohen — Derelict
As I said in FC Shultz’s Rose Weapon review, I’m often the sort of person who feels incessantly indebted to folks partly from my deep well of gratitude and partly from promises I’ve made, even if inadvertently. I tend to keep them, but I often take years. That includes a promise I made to LJ…
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Traditional Haiku : A Western Perspective
Many writers today present Haiku as free verse, covering a myriad of subjects. Many readers, myself included, enjoy these verses. However, I feel there is greater gentleness and artistic challenge in traditional Haiku. Traditional Haiku, which originated in Japan, is recognized as unrhymed verse of seventeen syllables. Steeped in Japanese culture and traditional nuances, Haiku…
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Etsetara 001 : Monti Fresh
Hello! Tara here, I don’t speak up that often, but Lance encouraged me to make a miscellany of my internet links for Thursdays or Fridays. So here’s my Monti fresh attempt: 1) Monti Kids Sale There’s a huge sale going on right now at Monti Kids, which many of you love. Go here. As per…
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl — a Defense
Nathan Rabin, film critic and cultural agnostic, coined the phrase “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” in 2007. It’s grown in popularity enough that the Nabokovian satirist and aspiring Russian Train Baron Patrick Rothfuss has this to say about himself: So folks — at least certain folks residing in Wisconsin who read The A.V. Club — are…
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RL Stevenson “Kidnapped”
From May to July in 1886, RL Stevenson published a boys’s novel Kidnapped in the magazine Young Folks. Everyone from Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel cited it as an influence. It’s a delightful little novel by RL Stevenson. I only know him through Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. (A novel I need to review,…
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Clarkesworld Ai — Response to Spam
The short of that story: a sci fi magazine tossed in the towel after dealing with a logrithmic increase of submissions/rejections — Clarkesworld Ai may become a byword for the problem. The only solution I can think of in regards to something like chat gtp, is trust and some form of in person session write to…