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The Storyverse Comes Alive

Small Demons, who’s tagline is Welcome to the Storyverse, is a vast expanse of possibility for the curious. It contains, “The people, places and things from books, and everywhere they can take you.” According to the site, which is in Beta test mode,

It all begins here. Suppose someone took every meaningful detail from all the books you love. Every song mentioned, every person, every food or place or movie title. And what if they did that for all the books everyone else loves, too. The ones you’ve never heard of. Suddenly you’ve got a whole world of seemingly random people, places and things, all gathered in one place.

Together they create something vast, wonderful and entirely new. A Storyverse. A place where details touch, overlap and lead you further. To new music to listen to. New movies to watch. Places to visit. People to know. And of course, new books to read. Getting started is simple. Just choose a book. See where it takes you.

Sign me up. I can’t wait to dive into this.

Oddly, I’ve never read anything by Kurt Vonnegut.

I’ve always suspected I’d like his writing.

So, I’ve finally picked up a copy of Slaughterhouse Five.

So it goes.

I enjoyed Zone One quite a bit, but for literary horror, The Last Werewolf had more bite.

Stop by the very cool literary zine Metazen and give my story Oliver Pratt a read.

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Reading: Zone One

A literary zombie thriller from Colson Whitehead?

I can’t think of better Halloween reading. Another fantastic choice would have been the thrilling and completely entertaining The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan, but I’ve already read it.

Who wants to be that the zombie theme is really commentary on the modern self-absorbed, aimless masses? I wonder of Whitehead’s read any Gurdjieff?

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Read The Last Werewolf

I just finished tearing through The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan.

It was a few hairs under 300 pages of bloody, sexy, violent, very human, awesomeness.

This is probably the best literary horror I’ve read. It’s smart, rich with humanity—even though the humanity is mostly barely smoldering in the existentially tortured Werewolf, Jake—and very funny.

Favorite line:

Reader, I ate him.

Awesome line. Awesome book.

 

I just went on a bit of a big book binge.

Picked up Ghost Story, the new Dresden Files novel (guilty pleasure) and The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan along with a few other more philosophical and speculative titles.

Now I just have to finish the Bolaño tome I’m traipsing through. It kind of meanders.

I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.

John McPhee

Keep the e-books. I’ll take the soul feeding intimacy of an old, tattered novel, its coffee stained pages, any day.

On Reading Like A Writer

An interview from the Atlantic with Francine Prose on reading like a writer.