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Universal Harvester

March 28, 2017 by Drew

The Short Version: It’s the late 1990s and Jeremy’s working for a small video store in Nevada, Iowa. He’s thinking, slowly, about his future – but then customers begin to complain of strange scenes spliced into their VHS tapes. He starts to look into it… but some mysteries are, perhaps, never possible to explain. The Review: It shouldn’t come as any surprise, to those who know John Darnielle’s work (either his fiction or his music), that reading Universal Harvester conjures a particular […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Advance Review, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, John Darnielle, Literature, review, Reviews, Universal Harvester

Selected Shorts: Welcome to Night Vale

March 19, 2015 by Drew

Cecil Baldwin reads from Will Eno / glows from his forehead third-eye If you’re an internet person – and, if you’re reading this, chances are good that you’re an internet person – you’ve heard of Welcome to Night Vale. The weird little-podcast-that-could following the goings on of a distinctly odd little community in the Southwestern United States has become a bonafide sensation: #1 podcast on iTunes, a touring live show, and a forthcoming novel from the creators. If you haven’t listened (or […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Carlos the Scientist, Cecil Baldwin, Dylan Marron, Events, Fantasy, Features, Horror, Jeffrey Fink, John Darnielle, Joseph Cranor, Mara Wilson, Matthew Love, New York Neo-Futurists, Night Vale, Performance, Reading, Recaps, Sci-Fi, Selected Shorts, Shirley Jackson, Short Stories, Symphony Space, The Mountain Goats, Theater, Weird, Welcome to Night Vale, Will Eno, WNYC

Wolf in White Van

June 11, 2014 by Drew

The Short Version: After an incident at age 17, Sean Phillips recedes from the world and creates a series of text-based adventure games – none more popular than Trace Italian. But many years later, when tragedy strikes in the real world because of his game, he begins to think about the choices that he has made to get to this point. The Review: At BEA a few weekends ago, Sean McDonald (the rockstar editor at FSG who’s also responsible for helping Jeff […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: 5+, Advance Review, BEA14, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, John Darnielle, Literature, review, Trace Italian, Wolf in White Van

Raging Biblio-holism

The overwhelming urge to collect, consume, and consider books

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Universal Harvester

Selected Shorts: Welcome to Night Vale

Wolf in White Van