Monthly Archives: August 2024

Rediscovered: Another Green Something Breathing

Posted on August 29, 2024 by Don

Remember when bookseller and collector Paul Dobish discovered that the Stanley McNail poetry collection Something Breathing was bound in two variants of green cloth? “Until recently,” Paul tells me, “all of the copies of the Arkham House first edition that … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: And 50 Years Ago

Posted on August 28, 2024 by Don

Back in 1974 I had my first review published in issue 9 of the Harry Morris, Jr. zine Nyctalops, which will make it 50 Years Worth of selected essays and reviews when collected, crammed into two eBook LitCrit MegaPacks. Guessing, … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: 50 Years Ago

Posted on August 27, 2024 by Don

Usually, I don’t bother going out of my way to meet someone or see something. Only a very few possible high points kick me in the ass. I made sure I went to the screenings in Pacific Film Archive in … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Willeford’s Cockfighter

Posted on August 26, 2024 by Don

Fifty years slips past when you’re not even looking. For example, how long ago was it that Warren Oates in Cockfighter hit the silver screen? Fifty years? Correct you are. Based on the novel by Charles Willeford. The blurbage for … Continue reading →

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