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“I’m Writing Towards…” # 29 — Shirley Jackson’s Bucolic Deception
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The Lottery is so big, so towering that it could be considered The Greatest Short Story Ever, certainly one of the greatest to study. But that alone isn’t everything Shirley Jackson offered. If it was it might be enough. But there’s mo...
Audio: The Rainbow’s Gravity (Short Story)
I’m always in motion, but I’m not going anywhere. I’m still the opposite of Ben when I think about it. He’s everywhere and all at once, and so busy, and the scurrying barely stops. I mean, I almost wonder if Ben is real when I stop to think...
Poem: June, 2026
Like the guy in a singlet, sandals, and shorts
pressing the pedestrian buzzer eight times
to see what changes, I feel a bit out of sorts —
the winter of my disco tension is soundtracked
by Donna Summer. I feel love for so many
grea...
“You Are Obsolete/Look At All The White Men On The Street”
My favourite Steely Dan album is often the one I’m listening to — but it’s usually Aja, Katy Lied or The Royal Scam — a fine, tight trilogy that has them cooking on all cylinders, having perfected the move of not giving a fuck for the feeli...
Only CDs Is Sounding Like These # 113: Al Green, “Al Green’s Greatest Hits” (1975/1995)
This is one of the all-time great, single-disc, no-skip Greatest Hits comps. And Al Green had such a sweet run across the 70s and this captures him before he fell off at all; all swagger and magic and the songs that he and Willie Mitchell m...
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