The Lillian Review of Books
Lillian Wang SelonickA former science publisher with a Classics BA reads classic literature and science fiction.
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| Issues | 66 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 16 days ago |
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Apocalypse, Now and Then
I love the smell of fallout in the morning. Smells like… victory.
Full-scale nuclear war is unwinnable. We’ve done the war games. Any power that emerges on the other side of nuclear winter will be wholly unrecognizable. Nuclear apocalypse...
Doomsday Prepper Blues
I wrote this poem in May of 2020 and recently rediscovered it. I don’t write much poetry, but the end of the world felt like a time for verse, not prose.
Unprepared
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Indie Sleaze Philip K. Dick: my Samuel Richardson Prize choice
Regular readers of this newsletter will be unsurprised to learn that my favorite of the Samuel Richardson Self-Published Novel Prize finalists owes its paranoiac soul to Philip K. Dick. PKD is a writer’s writer, but few of his acolytes ever...
The Lillian Review enters its Terrible Twos
Hello, and happy Lillian Review of Books Anniversary for all who celebrate!
March 20th marks the second year that the LilRB has been up and operating. See last year’s anniversary post for a meditation on why I started this blog and how far...
Jewcuck is Cuckjew: Ulysses (1922) as Jewish Literature?
Fourth Time’s the Charm
Sixteen years. That’s how long I’d been living with my failure to read the Mount Everest of English literature.
It’s a new record for the Lillian Review of Books. Last year, in my third-ever post, I reviewed Th...
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Reviews of classic literature & sci-fi. Past lives: science publisher, UChicago Classics BA, college radio punk/folk DJ. Chicago-born, DC-based.
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