Joe Hill

GoandDo: Events you can take part in!

Comic talent zooms into Portsmouth On Sunday, Nov. 16, (today!) The Best Western Wynwood Hotel, on the Portsmouth Traffic Circle, will host Jetpack Comics, Portsmouth Comic Book Show and Writers Festival. The show will feature...

Out and About: Rock 'n' Bowl, Wash Day art, comic show

I went candlepin bowling last weekend. On Saturday you can bowl and it will actually go to a good cause, not just bragging rights. Rock 'n' Bowl for Team Trevor The Rock 'n' Bowl benefit for Team Trevor and Cystic Fibrosis...

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Vol. 19

As reliable as day following night, or spring following winter, is editor Stephen Jones’ annual roundup of the finest horror short stories and novellas of the year. This latest collection, THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR:...

Awakening From the Amnesia: our Responsibility to Yesterday

“Amnesia is as much a disease for a nation as it is for an individual, in both cases a heavy handicap for current conduct.” Daniel Singer in the November 11, 2003 issue of The Nation Hope is a funny thing. Humans find hope from...

Like Mother, Like Son: William Burroughs, Laura Lee Burroughs, and Coke

Did you know that William S. Burroughs' mother was an author too? Graham Rae furnishes an inspired analysis of Laura Lee Burroughs' writings on the art of flower arranging. The three tomes, sponsored by Coke (the company, not...

Heart-Shaped Box, By Joe Hill

This should be called "Abused Women and Girls", as they are who this unpleasantly creepy little novel is about. The "hero" is a middle-aged heavy rock star, Jude Coyne, a collector of "death memorabilia" including a snuff...

TNDP, More Words Of Sage Advice

Before I get all political here, I want to remind you that my grandfather (and most of Hoots’ residents that have a little bit of age on them) were in the generation of Gov. Ned McWherter. He still lives here most of the time...

The Matter of America

Rich Horton, who reads just about all the short sf published every year, has just posted his annual year-end summary for Strange Horizons; thanks as always for the writeup, Rich! For those who, like me, have never been quite...

Studs had talent, generosity, humanity

If Studs had been himself this past month he would have exposed "Joe the Plumber" for the phony bastard he is -- the same as he exposed the underbelly of America during World War II. He then would have gone on to give true...

Studs and Me

I only met the master interviewer Studs Terkel, who died Friday at 96, once but that occasion remains a high point of my 35 years as a journalist...He was completely conversational. He never cut me off, allowing me to answer...

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