Brief writings, comments, updates and vignettes.
The emerging online-news ecosystem is full of memory holes left by journalism projects that did good work, but didn’t gain traction in the fickle commercial and nonprofit funding regimes. Acknowledging the inevitability of entropy, I’m pleased to share that Newsdesk.org is now live as an archival site. Newsdesk was established in 2000 as a source […]
Read MorePlenty happening over at The Fabulist. The rundown, in brief: We publish a new print chapbook each month. We’re calling the imprint Fabulist Editions. Check out our online bookstore, or subscribe via Patreon. The Legere Prizes are our first-ever Readers’ Choice awards. Two rounds of voting, 38 contenders, 11 finalists, and our first- through third-place […]
Read MoreI’m glad to share with you that The Fabulist Magazine has been shortlisted for two Utopia Awards, and also has been nominated by the Pushcart Prize editorial board for inclusion in their 2022 “Best of the Small Presses” anthology. Cool beans! Check out the full announcement over at The Fab’s website.
Read MoreI’m thrilled to share that The Fabulist is hosting a reading at Lit Crawl 2021 on Saturday, October 23, from 8-9p.m., at the storied Adobe Bookstore in San Francisco’s Mission District. Our readers comprise a stellar lineup of Bay Area talent working with fantastical fiction, including Claire Light, Nick Mamatas and Annalee Newitz. Get the […]
Read MoreBy the way, it’s a serial comma. Oxford is in England, didn’t you know? Ah, but the comma-tariat, they care not for such details. And so we are oppressed, all of us, by the “Oxford” comma’s obtrusive demands for conformity, by its habit of boorishly inserting itself into places where it’s not welcome — like […]
Read MoreAs of this writing, secret police are cruising the streets of at least one American city, hustling citizens engaged in First Amendment-protected acts of protest off the streets in unmarked cars, where they are detained without charges in federal buildings. Stated so plainly, is it really alarmist to accuse our president of playing at Pinochet? […]
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