“Many people live and die without ever confronting themselves in the darkness.”
— Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties
Tag: literature
This is a review about one of my favorite short story anthologies and I want to disagree but they’re not wrong. But also, sometimes I need those stories that do show how fucked up we can be, and how we simply need to deal with that as well. I suppose there’s just a time when optimism feels like bullshit and there must be a counterbalance.
Anyway it’s a great anthology, I’d gift it to anyone 17 and up. And don’t take my word for it, here’s another review:
It wasn’t such a bad place, she thought, once you got out of the house. It was the house that disfigured the land.
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Noemí tried to think of the house filled with the noise of children’s laughter, children playing hide and seek, children with a spinning top or a ball between their hands. But she couldn’t. The house would not have allowed such a thing. The house would have demanded they spring from it fully formed.
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
I was interested to know whether there had been any noticeable uptick in searches for “the cask of amontillado” since this meme began and while there has, it’s the exact same uptick which has occurred every fall in recent memory as high school teachers have geared up for their spooky october literature units
it looks very similar to a reading of a heartbeat…..a specific heart…..that won’t stop beating……..from under the floorboards………
Feathursday Raven Tales from the Dena
Yesterday we shared some wood engravings by Alaskan artist, librarian, and illustrator Dale DeArmond (1914-2006) as illustrations for American ethnologist Frederica de Laguna’s transcribed collection of Dena stories, Tales from the Dena, published in 1995 by the University of Washington Press. The trickster character, Raven, features prominently in the folklore of the Denaʼina and DeArmond seems to delight in depicting Raven’s wily character. According to the Sitka Sentinel, DeArmond described ravens as entertaining, intelligent, and mischievous. She’s said she doesn’t particularly identify with them, but she does respect them. “Rather admirable,” she said of the feathered tricksters, “their approach to life. I like it.”
Shown here are a selection of DeArmond’s wood engravings illustrating a few of the Raven tales collected in Tales from the Dena. Click on the images to see the captions.
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Where do I find the literature fandoms where people make fan art of characters from obscure short stories.
Okay this is not an obscure story at all but see what I mean. (by A-La-Moe)
Where do I find the literature fandoms where people make fan art of characters from obscure short stories.