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Category: BOOKS & AUTHORS

Fun Home and Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

This entry is part 20 of 21 in the series 2023 Reads

Like all the posts in my 2023 reads list, this comes at a lag. I read this book for a book club I’m now in, which is reading works from this list. (Of which some of the titles are definitely not among the best books of the century, but it’s a list to work with.) Alison […]

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November 30, 2023November 30, 2023 gordsellarNo Comments

The Ice is Coming, The Dark Bright Water, and Journey Behind the Wind by Patricia Wrightson

This entry is part 20 of 21 in the series 2023 Reads

Like all the posts in my 2023 reads list, this comes at a lag, meaning I read this a while back—in this case, I’ve made my way through the trilogy in the past few months, and I finished the last volume not at all long ago.  I read The Ice Is Coming as a kid, […]

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October 23, 2023October 23, 2023 gordsellarNo Comments

Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone by Stefan Kiesbye

This entry is part 18 of 21 in the series 2023 Reads

As ever, this comes a little while after reading the book. This one’s a long-term loaner (it’s been on my shelf awhile now) from Justin Howe. 

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August 26, 2023 gordsellarNo Comments

Harrow County Library Edition, Vols. 1-4, by Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook

This entry is part 16 of 21 in the series 2023 Reads

Like all the posts in my 2023 reads list, this four-volume set of enormous hardback graphic novels appaears here on my blog at a slight lag, meaning I read this a while back. Not much of one, oin this case, though: I finished this yesterday.  I was completely unfamiliar with this comic series, but it […]

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August 11, 2023 gordsellarNo Comments

Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry

This entry is part 17 of 21 in the series 2023 Reads

Like all the posts in my 2023 reads list, this comes at a lag, meaning I read this a while back—though in this case, a while back is just last week.  Richard Lloyd Parry had lived in Japan for a few decades by the time that the tsunami in March 2011 hit the country. Ghosts […]

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July 26, 2023July 26, 2023 gordsellarNo Comments

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RECENT/UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Now available: FERMENTVM NIGRVM DEI SEPVLTI (Black Yeast of the Buried God) from LotFP! Text by me, illustrations by Gonzalo Æneas, layout by Jacob Hurst, editing by Joshua Blackketter, maps by Alex Mayo. OSR adventure set in a brewing abbey in historical Westphalia.

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My OSR Conversions Guide for the Koryo Hall of Adventures 5E setting book is now available for €4.25, over at the publisher's website.

My short story "Sojourn" appeared in A City of Han.

Available on Amazon.com, or, in Seoul, from the Fiction Writers in Seoul website.


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Stuff to Read

An annex of free stuff to read: stories, poems, and nonfiction.

SERIES & STANDOUT POSTS


ON WRITING & READING

For Writers. A collection of exercises & Intuition Pumps

My ongoing series Blogging Ezra Pound's The Cantos.

My ongoing (but only occasionally updated) series on SF in South Korea.

ON MUSIC

What We Talk About When We Talk About Music. A lengthy discussion of music and the arts, and what we've let corporations do to our culture:

ON KOREA & LIVING THERE

Five Expat Social Fallacies, a riff on the famous geek social fallacies.

On Teaching Writing in a Korean University

ON RPGS & GAMES

With a Side of Kimchi: My First Brush with Fiasco, an actual play report on my first game of Fiasco.

Talent Night: a prep/actual play report on my first RPG game in a decade and a half, back in 2013, played with Dread, including a free copy of the scenario.

ON OTHER SUBJECTS

How to Kill Your Successful Business in Five Easy Steps, a series on really bad business practices I've seen in action.

MUSIC

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RSS TUMBL’D LATELY (MUSIC STUFF)

  • Like many people, I heard the opening track in the film Malcolm... April 25, 2023
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