Friday, November 4, 2022

Saturday Music Club: "I Need You"

 The Kinks:


The Who: 

The Beatles: 

The Impressions:

Elmore James:

Jon Batiste:

Eric Legnini and the Afro Jazz Beat featuring Krystle Warren: 

yaeow:

Jelly Roll:

Lynyrd Skynyrd:

The Ascots (covering the Kinks):

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Short Story Wednesday: FANTASTIC, September 1974, edited by Ted White; THE PARIS REVIEW, Autumn 1974, edited by George Plimpton; THE ONTARIO REVIEW, Autumn 1974, edited by Raymond J. Smith; THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, September 1974, edited by Edward Ferman: Late Summer 1974

Late Summer 1974

Remarkable what an almost random look backward can turn up. 45 years ago [in 2019]. Not too long before I first began reading the magazines, and had already read some stories from them, or would first read them in that year and the next. I had my tenth birthday in August of 1974, and while I wasn't too fond of how life in general was going, I was more than happy enough about what I was finding in literature of various sorts. 

As I consider the four magazines here now, it occurs to me that all four were eclectic in their remit to a greater degree than most of their peers, and openly so...two in making clear that they mixed fantasy (of all sorts, including horror fiction) and science fiction (and were certainly willing to publish some notable fiction that wasn't fantasy or sf by any reasonable standard on occasion, or impressive stories which could be considered truly fantasticated only by squinting very hard...in the 1970s, Stuart Dybek's "Horror Movie" or Edward Wellen's short novel Goldbrick in F&SF, or Bill Pronzini and Barry Malzberg's "Another Burnt-Out Case" or Jack Dann's "Days of Stone" in Fantastic come to mind), the other two in being open to a greater degree to all sorts of fiction than many of their little-magazine peers (perhaps only the Boston-based and not the CCNY Fiction, Antaeus and TriQuarterly were as eclectic in the '70s), and proclaiming their internationality in their very titles, an English-language magazine initially out of Paris, an intentionally interculturally Anglophone North American magazine initially out of border city Windsor, Ontario. All four were founded in a certain spirit of defiance as well as openness, ambition beyond simply attempting to produce good magazines, and all found themselves a matter of a certain degree of controversy as a result (though in The Paris Review's case, much of that controversy was generated by the ultimate source of some of its funding, as the facts of CIA involvement went from quietly rumored to documented and revealed).  The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction began publishing in 1949, Fantastic in 1952, The Paris Review in 1953...and while this was the first issue of The Ontario Review, the geist of the magazine was not too different from that of its not too elderly peers.

--much more to come--see indices below:





























Fantastic Stories [v23 #6, September 1974] Ted White, editor (75¢, 132pp, digest, cover by Jeff Jones)
can be read here. 

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [v47 #3, #280, September 1974] edited by Edward Ferman (75¢, 164pp, digest, cover by Jeannine Guertin)
can be read here. 





























    The Paris Review #59 Fall, 1974 $1.95
      can be read online, at least in part, with a subscription.

      FICTION
      Frederick Busch: Widow Water
      Lamar Herrin: The Rio Loja Ring-Master
      Mike Kempton: Long Green
      Ray Russell: Rational Moments
      David Shaber: Progress Report

      INTERVIEW
      Gore Vidal: The Art of Fiction No. 50

      POETRY
      Ameen Alwan: Two Poems
      Paul Anderson: Falling
      Maxine Chernoff: Two Poems
      W. K. Engel: Two Poems
      Albert Goldbarth: Organization
      Thomas Johnson: Two Poems
      Erica Jong: Wrinkles
      Erica Jong: Becoming a Nun
      Greg Kuzma: Two Poems
      Naomi Lazard: Two Poems
      David Lehman: Greeting Where No Kindness Is
      Molly McKaughan: Ms. Delilah Hoffritz
      Rush Rankin: Poem
      Vern Rutsala: You
      Ira Sadoff: Five Poems
      Aram Saroyan: Two Poems
      Louis Simpson: Three Poems
      Albert Stainton: The Limestone Statue Boxing Factory
      Charles Webb: Two Poems

      FEATURE
      Peter Ardery: In Memoriam

      ART
      William Wegman: Portfolio of Drawings

    The Ontario Review #1 Fall 1974 $2.50
    can be read here.

    INTERVIEW
    A Conversation with Philip Roth by Joyce Carol Oates 9

    POETRY
    Stanley Cooperman, from The Jerusalem Poems 23 
    Conrad Hilberry, Two for Alfred North Whitehead 28 
    Miroslav Holub, Loneliness of the Minotaur 30 
    Ernest Sandeen, T wo Poems 31 
    J. Michael Yates, from Burn Tissue Cycle 47 
    John Ditsky, Three Poems 50 
    John R. Reed, Love Poem 53
    Derk Wynand, Snowscapes 54 
    Tom Wayman, Three Poems 67 
    William Heyen, Two Poems 71 
    Philip J. Klukoff, Deaf Mute 74 
    Carl Dennis, Prowlers 75 
    Robert Bringhurst, For Robert Grosseteste 76

    FICTION
    Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Lucca 33 
    Bill Henderson, Pop 56

    GRAPHICS
    A. G. Smith, Landscapes from Coastal Carolina 41

    ESSAY
    Paul Marx, Harvey Swados 62

    REVIEWS
    John R. Reed, Instructive Alchemies 78 
    Linda W. Wagner, Four Young Poets 89 
    Gloria Whelan, The Poem as Myth 98 
    Raymond Smith and Joyce Carol Oates, Briefly Noted 102 

    Notes on Contributors 107 





















A redux post, to be finally expanded
For more of today's stories, please see Patti Abbott's blog.
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Sunday, October 30, 2022

The Shirley Jackson Awards, for work published in 2021:

 ***indicates the winner

to see video of the ceremony: https://www.facebook.com/shirleyjacksonawards

https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/

NOVEL

All the Murmuring Bones by A.G. Slatter (Titan Books)

Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer (MCD)

***My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press-US/Titan Books-UK)

No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone Publishing-US/Titan Books-UK)

Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire-US/Titan Books-UK)

NOVELLA

Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom)

Dirty Heads: A novella of cosmic coming-of-age horror by Aaron Dries (Black T-Shirt Books)

***Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn (Tordotcom)

A Rose / Arose by Michael Bailey (Written Backwards)

The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate, translated by David Bowles (Innsmouth Free Press)

NOVELETTE

House of Crows by Lisa Unger (Amazon Original Stories)

“The Nag Bride” by A.C. Wise (The Ghost Sequences, Undertow Publications)

The Night Belongs to Us by Jess Landry (Independent Legions Publishing)

***“We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It” by E. A. Petricone (Nightmare Magazine, February 2021)

The Women by Margaret Jameson (F(r)iction)

SHORT FICTION

“Dizzy in the Weeds” by L.D. Lewis (Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness)

“Forward, Victoria” by Carlie St. George (The Dark Magazine, April 2021)

“Gordon B. White is Creating Haunting Weird Horror” by Gordon B. White (Nightmare Magazine, July 2021)

“Human Reason” by Nicasio Andres Reed (Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness)

***“You’ll Understand When You’re a Mom Someday” by Isabel J. Kim (khōréō magazine, August 2021)

 SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

***Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons: Stories by Keith Rosson (Meerkat Press)

People from My Neighborhood by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Ted Goossen (Soft Skull Press)

Sometimes We’re Cruel by J.A.W. McCarthy (Cemetery Gates Media)

We are Happy, We are Doomed by Kurt Fawver (Grimscribe Press)

Where All is Night, and Starless by John Linwood Grant (Trepidatio Publishing)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY--a tied vote, thus two winners

Giving The Devil His Due: A Charity Anthology, edited by Rebecca Brewer (Running Wild Press)

***Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, edited by Eric J. Guignard (Dark Moon Books)

Stitched Lips: An Anthology of Horror from Silenced Voices, edited by Ken MacGregor (Dragon’s Roost Press)

There Is No Death, There Are No Dead, edited by Jess Landry & Aaron J. French (Crystal Lake Publishing)

***Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, edited by dave ring (Neon Hemlock)

SPECIAL AWARD

The Shirley Jackson Awards, Inc., also is committed to promoting the legacy of Shirley Jackson and, as part of this mission, will present a Special Award to Ms. Ellen Datlow in recognition of the anthology When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson (Titan Books, 2021).

Ms. Datlow was a nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award for Edited Anthology for the years 2011, 2013 (with Terri Windling), 2015, 2017, and 2019, and won the award in this category for the years 2007, 2009, and 2014.

Previous recipients of a Special Award from the Shirley Jackson Awards are Joyce Carol Oates as editor of the Library of America edition of Shirley Jackson:  Novels & Stories (Library of America, 2010) and Ruth Franklin in recognition of her biography Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2016).


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Friday, October 28, 2022

King Kong, the 1968? pillow

 One face:

The other face:


Purchased for me, whether or not at my urging I have no memory, presumably sometime around 1968, when I had seen some number of runs of King Kong, which had had no few public-domain prints circulating, on local tv broadcasts...I had seen the film about ten times, at least, by the time I was six years old (in '7o), and have no clear memory of Not having this pillow around. Presumably my mother sewed up a part of it for me, after rough treatment and/or the Cheena River flood (in Fairbanks, Alaska) in 1967 caused it some damage. That such a pillow was mass-produced sometime in the mid-late '60s gives some indication of how much a Very Young audience was taken with KK in those years, if the KK/Gojira film and similar ripoffs and the 1960s cartoon series and other similar ripoffs in that arena didn't make that clear. 

Have you had anything Rosebud-esque that has managed to survive a similar passage, so far?

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Saturday, September 24, 2022

Saturday Music Club: The Zombies

 The first album: Begin Here (1965)


Danger Man, season 3, episode 3, "Sting in the Tail" (1965): soundtrack features Jeanne Roland singing the French adaptation of "She's Not There", "Te voila", in background and occasionally foreground (since the time cuts are weirdly resistant to being saved--when they don't insert themselves--on Blogspot, at 17:00 is a good point to start the relevant performance; a bit of it used in reprise at end of [a very good] episode):


Bunny Lake is Missing trailer: "Come on Time"
(repurposed "Just Out of Reach")

The Zombies on a pub tv: "Just Out of Reach" and "Nothing's Changed"

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Track Listing: Tell Her No Leave Me Be You Make Me Feel Good Just Out Of Reach Indication Nothing's Changed Whenever You're Ready I Love You Is This a Dream? How We Were Before She's Coming Home Remember You Don't Go Away I Want You Back Again

The Zombies (1966; released in Japan and Europe)
Track Listing: 1) The Way I Feel Inside 2) How We Were Before 3) Is This The Dream 4) Whenever You're Ready 5) Woman 6) You Make Me Feel Good 7) Gotta Get A Hold Of Myself 8) Indication 9) Don't Go Away 10) I Love You 11) Leave Me Be 12) She's Not There

The Zombies at the Strand Bookstore, 15 March 2017

Odessey and Oracle the album (1968)













later records:

R.I.P. reconstruction














Below, compilation of songs from the album Into The After Life, and The Lost Album 00:00:00 Never My Love 00:02:39 I Know She Will 00:05:27 Smokey Day 00:07:52 Unhappy Girl 00:10:19 I'll Keep Trying 00:12:47 Conversation Off Floral Street 00:15:25 Walking in the Sun 00:18:10 If It Don't Work Out 00:20:42 Sometimes (Acid) 00:22:13 Telescope (Mr Galileo) 00:24:54 Girl Help Me 00:27:19 I Could Spend the Day 00:29:59 Imagine the Swan

The BBC Radio Sessions (2016 compilation)
























Still Got That Hunger (2015)

The Zombies in 2015:

"Ma Non E Giusto" ("She's Not There" in Italian)
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