Over at the other blog, I've got a post on James Frey's recent assholitude and what it means for MFA programs, students, and applicants. I was going to post it here too, but the rich text won't copy, so have a link instead.
My new short story, "Miguel and the Viatura," is live at Futurismic. In his intro, Paul Graham Raven says it "updates the urban vampire for a nanotech-infested near future in the favelas of the Global South," which is a much cooler pull-quote than I could've managed. I promise that no one sparkles. Much.
Hey, good news! Over at io9, you can read Catherynne Valente's "Days of Flaming Motorcycles" from Maurice Broaddus' Apex Books anthology Dark Faith. Reminds me a bit of Kelly Link's "The Hortlak" in all the right ways -- a melancholy, more-or-less relaxed story about zombies who are probably not mindless, tender cannibalism, and hating a place so
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