Imagine my exhilaration to discover that, after just one day of being available for request, 250 people had already declared their interest in THE LIGHTNING STENOGRAPHY DEVICE’s paperback edition! With it now over 300 and almost a week left to go, how many will we see by the end? Goodreads Book Giveaway The Lightning Stenography Device by M.F. Sullivan Giveaway ends January 03, 2018. See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
Mea Culpa, dear readers, but I don’t have an essay for you this week. After getting whipped up in a high-synchronicity birthday trip to San Francisco (a very good time, might I add, and magically vivifying) and completing a third full-length play for me to submit around, I am now roughly 45% done with the novel and will be taking another couple of weeks off from non-fiction in order to
Here’s an interesting notion: Hannibal Lecter wants to save your soul. No? No takers? Well, bear with me here, because we’re about to delve into what’s likely to be a multi-part journey into one of the most plastic, evil, and enduring fictional characters existing in the American literary canon. So plastic, evil, and enduring, in fact, that Robert Anton Wilson was compelled to add his name to the end of
[This week’s essay is part one of a two-parter covering first RAYEARTH OVA and then Puella Magic Madoka Magica; however, Part II will be posted in three weeks rather than the standard two due to the holiday season. I may or may not do a shorter essay about the film Arrival in the meantime, so be sure to follow the blog if you aren’t already, or send me an email
I have never known a band to prove so divisive as SWANS—assuming, of course, one has heard of them before, which is a surprisingly big ‘if’ considering their eponymous EP was released in 1982 and, since then, Michael Gira has been feverishly producing music under his own name, SWANS, and Angels of Light with admirable consistency. A New York orchestration of sound whose New York noise will never entirely leave
Have you ever read The Book of Tobit? If you’re a Protestant, the answer is probably no, because it was rendered apocryphal; if you’re a Catholic, the odds are higher, but it’s increasingly hard to find a practicing Catholic these days who’s actually read the book outside of what was proscribed to them in Sunday school. Considered non-canonical also by Judaism, it’s tucked away amid more popular Biblical books, coincidentally
Growing up, I wasn’t allowed to listen to David Bowie. Though my father listened to all manner of punk, goth and progressive rock, the Buddha of suburbia was too esoteric for his Catholic tastes. I distinctly recall once sitting at the coffee table when, prompted, I am certain, by some commercial or television show, my father announced in reference to the song ‘Oh! You Pretty Things’ something to the snide
