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February 2024 Reading List

FEBRUARY  (16 books | 2,485 pgs) 12.) Where the Deep Ones Are by Kenneth Hite (Kids Book, 32 pgs) | 3/5 13.) HP Lovecraft's Dagon for Beginning Readers by RJ Ivankovic (Kids Book, 80 pgs) | 5/5 14.) HP Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu for Beginning Readers by RJ Ivankovic (Kids Book, 108 pgs) | 5/5 15.) Horror Trope Thesaurus: Killing It with Tropes by Jennifer Hilt (Nonfiction, 226 pgs) | 5/5 16.) The Silence by Don DeLillo (Novella, 117 pgs) | 2/5 17.) We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe (Stories, 131 pgs) | 5/5 18.)  Lullabies by Lang Leav (Poetry, 248 pgs) | 2/5 19.)  Einstein's Dream by Alan Lightman (Novel, 179 pgs) | 5/5 20.) Out of Aztlan by V. Castro (Stories, 186 pgs) | 5/5 21.) Amygdalatropolis by B.R. Yeager (Novel, 154 pgs) | 5/5 22.) Mine: An Anthology of Body Autonomy Horror by Roxie Voorhies (Stories, 212 pgs) | 5/5 23.) Delta Green: The Way It Went Down, Vol. 1 by Dennis Detwiller (Microfiction, Stories, 69 pgs) | 4/5 24.) Delta Green: The Way It

January 2024 Reading List

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JANUARY  (11 books | 2,115 pgs) 01.) This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno (Novel, 258 pgs) | 5/5 02.) Gateways to Abomination by Matthew M. Bartlett (Stories, 145 pgs) | 2/5 03.) The Strange Thing We Became by Eric Larocca (Stories, 119 pgs) | 4/5  04.) Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (Stories, 241 pgs) | 5/5 05.)  Anthony Bourdain Remembered (Nonfiction, 208 pgs) | 4/5 06.) Suicide: An Anthology (Nonfiction, 250 pgs) | 5/5 07.)  Bauhaus by Magdalena Droste (Art Book/Nonfiction, 96 pgs) | 4/5 08.)  From the Neck Up and Other Stories by Aliya Whitely (Stories, 320 pgs) | 4/5 09.)  We Can Never Leave This Place by Eric Larocca (Novel, 104 pgs) | 3/5 10.) You've Lost a Lot of Blood by Eric Larocca (Stories, 236 pgs) | 4/5 11.)  Contagion and Other Stories by Brian Evenson (Stories, 138 pgs) | 2.5/5 *     *     * I released my third collection of stories, Under a Black Rainbow , on Christmas Eve.  You can buy a copy HERE .  I am phenomenally pleased with how it turned

My Favorite Albums of 2023

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These are the albums that got me through this last year. I've been finding myself getting sucked down a vortex of very sentimental soul and rnb (some purely one or the other, some more electronic or experimental in nature). However, not all of these albums came out this year. In no particular order, these are just the albums I got hip to that made a massive impact on my listening habits.  *     *     * Vacations "Changes" (2018) Part 80s & 90s UK mod sound, part 90s crooner vibes - like The Smiths, but without the pure, and annoying, douchebaggery of Morrissey. This album really hit hard during the last half of the year. So much so, that several tracks became a part of my Winter Soul 2023 playlist this year (along with several other new artists mentioned below). What I dig about these guys is they've got a beautifully musical sound backing some really exceptional, and moving, lyrics.  Standout Tracks: "Anything Could Happen," "On Hold," "M

Defining the Topography of the Atlas

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Because of the next book, I released this current one. Despite releasing Under a Black Rainbow five days ago, I've been deeply involved in the creation of the next book, which feels more immediate and has, like other projects worth completing, become its own maelstrom of things to contend with.  Though dense in topicality, I've found a way to have a little fun with it (as I usually tend to do). Fictional locales of Latin-ized stages of grief, emotional landmarks on the map, incomplete fictions, potential GPS coordinates for signifcant places in significant moments, playlists that consumed my brain during particular stints... Excited is the wrong word for this book, but there is a thrumming pulling me along and telling me it's worth telling.  So I've been busy doing what it is that I tend to do best, which is make shit for other people to consume. Enjoy these fruits from your favorite dancing monkey. Works totally in progress. May your 2024 be better than you expect, an