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With my eyes:

• Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
• The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year’s Best Science Fiction edited by Gardener Dozois
• The Hiltons: The Story of an American Dynasty by J. Randy Taraborrelli
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

With my ears:

• Flynn Lives – Daft Punk
• Shallow Play – The New Division

With my heart:

Do not mistake inertia for contemplation: one will light your heart on fire the other will empty it.

With my eyes:

• An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows
• How to Live:  Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question by Sarah Bakewell
• Fortitude on Amazon Prime

With my ears:

• Beautiful, Ferry Corstan

With my heart:

Barn’s burn down

now

I can see the moon

— Mizuta Masahide

My short story “What a Wolf Wants” is up at Three Lobed Burning Eye magazine. It’s a strange little story ( do I write anything else? ) about a wolf who isn’t a wolf and a girl who isn’t a girl. It’s a story about grief that never really leaves us, and how we live anyway. It’s about making the decision to stay on this side of reality even in the worst of storms. And it’s about how friends get us through it. It’s also about moons and hungry cities and wolves. And everybody knows wolves are the best.

With my eyes:

• the new Strange Horizons website looks pretty snazzy
• Art in Renaissance Italy, 3rd Ed. by John T. Paoletti
• The King in Yellow by Robert Chambers
• Hanibal on Amazon Prime

 

With my ears:

• Deftones, anything and always

 

With my heart:

Failure is the gift I give my future self.

 

At first there was a story that started — “‘Worms got most of ’em,” the man said. The thief dropped the apple and tried to run.” It was going to be a story about the moon and clones. Moonpunk! But … that story turned out not to be a story about the moon and clones. That story turned out to be a story about a plague in Narnia Wonderlandia. The story about the moon and clones starts like this: “Five minutes after the convention goers sat down to a lunch of wilted salads and engmeat a wave of panic swept through the grand hall; somebody was killing Einsteins.” Moon noir!

Maybe I can write it before it changes its mind again.

With my eyes:

• Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
• Kushiel’s Dart by Jaqueline Carey
• the staggering art of Julie Dillion

With my ears:

• silence and dog snores

With my heart:

• “A writer’s real work is the endless winnowing of sentences” — Verlyn Klinkenborg, Several short sentences about writing

With my eyes:

• House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski ( I think I will be reading this forever )
• Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
• Uprooted – Naomi Novik
• The Gift – Lewis Hyde

With my ears:

• Queen of the Surface Streets – DeVotchka

With my heart:

• Drawing pictures of pterodactyls eating frosted cupcakes makes me happy. Also, pterodactyl is a hard word to spell …

With my eyes:

• House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
• Stories of Your Life and Others – Ted Chiang
• Aurora – Kim Stanley Robinson

With my ears:

• Coode Street Podcast

With my heart:

• It seems impossible to me now that anyone could write anything without a dog at their feet.

With my eyes:

• Luna – Ian McDonald
• Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
• This is Not A Pipe – Michel Foucault
• Annihilation – Jeff VanderMeer
• House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski

With my ears:

• We Own the Sky – M83

With my heart:

• this little bit of code / is a thing / made out of breath and bone