The pile of non-fiction has gained a new entry. There's a reason reading non-fiction has been a goal on my annual round up in every year I've done one (I am so bad at taking the time to read them properly) but I really... ought/want to. I've started and am enjoying some of these! Just... time.
Ooh, thanks for reading! I have complicated feelings in hindsight about how I approached aspects of QUEERING FAITH (some of which I've touched on in articles since) but hope it's at least interesting!
Interesting... Forms of the novella. I'll check that out.
@wmhenrymorris.com mentioned it on here a while back (can’t remember the context) and while it’s not recent it does sound interesting
I don’t remember the context either, but I gave a brief overview of it here—it’s ild-fashioned, but it’s what we have: buttondown.com/wmhenrymorri...
It might just be that I read the newsletter tbh. I definitely remember reading those five functions of the novella and wanting more context (probably to argue with it in my head).
One John Clute I'm anxious to read is The Darkening Garden. A Short Lexicon of Horror, which appeared only in a small-run edition in 2014 and is now c. $300 on the used market. Hell, I'd love to reprint the damn book in my capacity as acquiring editor just so I can read the damn thing!
Email me. I got a connect.
Thanks, I was able to get a copy, which I think actually comes by virtue of you in any case! So thanks for your copying labor!
The Darkening Garden is also included in his collection Stay, which is (at least in the UK) available as a reasonably priced ebook
Oh, wow, the whole book is included in the collection?
I mean it doesn't have the illustrations from the original limited hb. But it has all the words.
Yep!
Oh that's awesome, thanks for the tip! I heard a colleague reference Darkening Garden at a conference and was like "how the hell did he get it?!" and now I get it. (Though a big part of me does want to see it as a separate, physical book still...)
Some people, somewhere, shady and unnamed, might have a PDF of tDG, if that sort of thing is helpful (it’s a book I find more frustrating than elucidating)
Always happy to be frustrated -- that's really all being a scholar of sf, fantasy, and horror is, really: always frustrated by the state of the convo lol
Ain’t that the truth
All reading is great, but non-fiction rocks!