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monthly digest: october 2026
I’m probably going to get to hand out candy to trick or treaters in the first time in a minute this year—therefore, I have purchased necessary supplies (cat ears, white face paint, something with which to draw whiskers).
I sort of thought...
the garbage the trash threw away
Under different circumstances—if it were an American live-action movie from, I don’t know, 1982—Tokyo Godfathers would be a quirky Christmas staple. But it is not American, live-action, or even from 1982, so instead it’s the redheaded stepc...
it was ten minutes of ten
After doing a Joanna Russ story and a James Tiptree story, I thought, shouldn’t I also write about a spooky Le Guin story for October? Picking one turned out to be trickier than picking a story for the other two, though. Le Guin has a werew...
new writing: chad harbach’s the brightness
I have a review of The Brightness, Chad Harbach’s pretty good followup to The Art of Fielding, available for you to read in the pages of The New Yorker (but also on their website). The Art of Fielding used Melville as an authorial proxy and...
saving him alone and his trivial pain
Another piece for spooky season. Once again, the whole story will be discussed, but if you want to read this story first, it’s a lot easier to find; you can read it at Clarkesworld here. If you want a print copy, you can find all the places...
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