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Scribbledehobble/Weaving and writhing

“A Theatre”

Posted on August 14, 2021 by TMW

Available for free now at Beneath Ceaseless Skies (q.v., by all means) is my new novella, “A Theatre.” Let’s say a few words about its genesis...

Announcements/Weaving and writhing

Still not dead yet

Posted on July 28, 2021 by TMW

And in fact I have a new story coming out soon in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Titled “A Theatre,” it’s about espionage and counterfeiting and pro...

Polemics/Scribbledehobble/Weaving and writhing

On being purple

Posted on August 28, 2019 by TMW

Nabokov calls them “bravura passages.” Somebody else somewhere else says “tours-de-force,” which is French for “feats of strength.” Same thing. The “purple patc...

Between the ears

Soundtrack (II)

Posted on August 12, 2019 by TMW

I got a $50 iTunes card for my birthday. (Thanks, Dad!) Amazingly, I did not buy any Stravinsky this time. But I did buy: Pierre Boulez. Le marteau sans maître....

Polemics/Weaving and writhing

Capacious: In defense of digression

Posted on July 24, 2019 by TMW

Literature is capacious; it enfolds multitudes. (It unfolds multitudes.) And if, indeed, one aspires to depict the world (c.f. mimesis), how could lengthy digre...

Announcements/Housekeeping

Not dead yet

Posted on July 22, 2019 by TMW

No, I am not dead yet. I can’t blame anyone for thinking so. (Did anyone wonder? or notice?—likely not.) In the traditional first-blog-post-after-a-long-h...

Weaving and writhing

Notes & sources (III)

Posted on September 1, 2016 by TMW

So did you read it? Of course I’m talking about the new story in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and now I’m here to tell you all about where it came from and whatnot....

Announcements/Weaving and writhing

George & Frank Tarr, Boy Avencherers, in ’Beeyon the Shours We Knowe!!!!’

Posted on August 9, 2016 by TMW

Like most writers, I suspect, the last piece I finished is always my favorite. So it’s great to announce that my favorite story, “George & Frank Tarr, Boy A...

Announcements/Housekeeping/Weaving and writhing

Balticon 50

Posted on May 23, 2016 by TMW

I’m going to Balticon on Memorial Day weekend. Are you? I’ll be presenting a workshop: Typography: Beyond Microsoft Word and CreateSpace templates (...

Scribbledehobble/Weaving and writhing

Notes & sources (II)

Posted on May 3, 2016 by TMW

Well! And so there it is. A new story. Unlike most stories, which need at most a short headnote, what this one really wants is a bibliography. And an apparatus ...

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