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Blog about some recent reading (Jan. and Feb. 2026)
https://biblioklept.org/2026/03/06/blog-about-some-recent-reading-jan-and-feb-2026/
Published: March 7, 2026 00:05
Joy Williams’ collection The Pelican Child was the first book I read this year. I picked up a copy back in December and surprised myself by reading most of it over a few days. It’s a much heavier collection than the wry vignettes of 2013’s Ninety-Nine…
Frederic Pokosch’s Voices (Book acquired, late Feb. 2026)
https://biblioklept.org/2026/03/04/frederic-pokoschs-voices-book-acquired-late-feb-2026/
Published: March 4, 2026 23:09
Frederic Prokosch’s 1982 memoir Voices is getting a reprint from NYRB. Their blurb: Frederic Prokosch was a fantasist. His first novel, The Asiatics, was a stylish account of a man hitchhiking across an Asia that was more dream than reality. Praised by T.…
We first heard about Pasolini at university | A scene from Abel Ferrara’s memoir Scene
https://biblioklept.org/2026/03/03/we-first-heard-about-pasolini-at-university-a-scene-from-abel-ferraras-memoir-scene/
Published: March 3, 2026 23:24
We first heard about Pasolini at university. I was going to Purchase, less than an hour from the city, and living in the country north of there. This was when you couldn’t dial up a movie on your laptop. Information was word of mouth and mysteries were…
Self-Portrait with Animal Bed — Julie Heffernan
https://biblioklept.org/2026/03/02/self-portrait-with-animal-bed-julie-heffernan/
Published: March 3, 2026 00:51
Self-Portrait with Animal Bed, 2025 by Julie Heffernan (b. 1956)
“Each Person to Her Paradise” — Diane Williams
https://biblioklept.org/2026/03/02/each-person-to-her-paradise-diane-williams/
Published: March 3, 2026 00:46
“Each Person to Her Paradise” by Diane Williams In the long run, as a sequel to our other less strenuous raptures, he undressed and put himself on the bed belly down—lying cross-ways across it. This was his come hither. His arms were pressed against his…
Sunday Comix
https://biblioklept.org/2026/03/01/sunday-comix-42/
Published: March 1, 2026 22:30
Back cover by Lee Binswanger for Wimmen’s Comix #12, November 1987, Renegade Press. Reprinted in The Complete Wimmen’s Comix, Vol. 2, Fantagraphic Books.
“California,” a poem by David Berman
https://biblioklept.org/2026/02/27/california-a-poem-by-david-berman/
Published: February 27, 2026 22:41
“California” by David Berman first published in Caliban #8, 1990 It’s a movie based on a true story,it’s a fat boy on a train with a dollar,it’s got no cavitiesand God on its shoulder. Red meat, white people and blue skies,it’s 50 states stuck together…
Trouble — Justin John Greene
https://biblioklept.org/2026/02/26/trouble-justin-john-greene/
Published: February 26, 2026 15:03
Trouble, 2022 by Justin John Greene (b. 1984)
Death/Blast/Bonus (Books acquired, late Feb. 2026)
https://biblioklept.org/2026/02/25/death-blast-bonus-books-acquired-late-feb-2026/
Published: February 25, 2026 23:43
I got a copy of the last (maybe latest?) of David Ohle’s Moldenke novels, The Death of a Character, in today’s mail. I’ve read or reread Ohle’s Moldenke’s novels over the past few weeks, and I think they are some of the best, grossest, funniest diagnoses…
“The Value of Not Understanding Everything” — Grace Paley
https://biblioklept.org/2026/02/24/the-value-of-not-understanding-everything-grace-paley/
Published: February 25, 2026 01:24
“The Value of Not Understanding Everything” by Grace Paley The difference between writers and critics is that in order to function in their trade, writers must live in the world, and critics, to survive in the world, must live in literature. That’s why…
Mass-market Monday | Joanna Russ’s Picnic on Paradise
https://biblioklept.org/2026/02/23/mass-market-monday-joanna-russs-picnic-on-paradise/
Published: February 24, 2026 01:21
Picnic on Paradise, Joanna Russ, 1968. Ace Books (1968). Cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon. 157 pages. From Joachim Boaz’s review at SF Ruminations: Joanna Russ’ first published novel Picnic on Paradise (1968) delightfully subverts traditional SF pulp…
Sunday Comix
https://biblioklept.org/2026/02/22/sunday-comix-41/
Published: February 22, 2026 22:58
D. Worden, Dennis Worden, The Floating Skull, Sunday Comix, Comix, Snarf
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