It would be tempting to assume that Poe gave me the idea, but it’s quite the other way around. Still, I like an allusion as much as the next, even if my method is less barbaric. We each have our preferences. Kennedy was my friend; I carefully selected him when I first heard about his
Author: DennisCarter
Words: Steve De France Illustration: Adrian Theuma Click for full size. It’s worth it! Full text below. THE MAN IN THE MOON I am watching the moon when I bump into a man with just a mouth in the middle of his face. This mouth—grins—and asks for a light. Is this some kind of a
by Kris Green It is dangerous for us to assume that we know everything, but recently I have come to discover that it is more dangerous to assume that we know anything at all; about ourselves, about each other, about the world around us. Humankind lives in the shadows. We think that with this great
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen: “What motivates my writing? I can’t not write. It’s a basic form Jeffrey Jerome Cohen: “What motivates my writing? I can’t not write. It’s a basic form of sustenance, my own worldly interface” Ahead of Schlock’s ‘Monster March’ we speak to Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Professor of English and Director of the
I’m the cleaner, me, luv. What I’m about to tell you’s things I know for certain. Everyone in these parts’s got their own story about Camilla. I’ll tell you things I know for certain. But if you need to find out more you go talk to the Madam’s niece, luv. She was a friend of
Julie, Deirdre, Olivia and Prince had barely been at the rental house in the mountains for ten minutes before they accepted the fact that they were all going to die there. Anna’s car keys on the kitchen counter, covered in a visible layer of dust, had been the first clue, and the discovery of Anna
In further proof of our living in interesting times, (allegedly) North Korean hackers have stopped Sony from releasing a movie, specifically Seth Rogen and James Franco’s The Interview. Is this a thing that actually happened – as in the hackers threatening the studio – or merely the most elaborate marketing campaign gimmick in history? Meanwhile hacker-proof
The award-winning author of the novel The Etched City and, more recently, the short story collection That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote KJ Bishop speaks to us about juggling two artistic disciplines, how the Australian landscape impacts on her work and reflects back other locales that make their way into her fiction, and her story
For our second November Schlock Talk, we speak to the versatile Australian artist Kathleen Jennings. Both a writer and illustrator, she has most recently applied her delicate, evocative and fragile line to Angela Slatter’s latest collection, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings. We chat to her about juggling two art forms on a regular basis,
It’s November, or as I’ve heard it being called, Noshavember. Which is fine enough, although in my case every month is basically Noshavember…er. In fact my beard’s grown so much that it has now gained enough sentience (as well as strong enough opinions) to host AND edit this month’s POP CULTURE DESTRUCTCAST. DESTRUCTION NEWS Just a