Category Archives: Fantasy

September News

Well, much has been happening, the first being that I have two new essays up over at Fantasy Matters: The first, Stalker Demon Guy (maybe) Meets Clueless (certainly) Meets Joyce Carol Oates (thankfully): The Fantastic in “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” and the second, Fantasy Conventions and the Power of Community. Have been running a bit behind on letting people know when new stuff is being published.

An acquaintance of mine, Stephen Graham Jones, also published a great essay, I Was Genre When Genre Wasn’t Cool, that I think everyone should go read.

My art catalogue piece for Xi Zhang’s show is mostly done. Just some more fine tuning, and then off it goes. By the way, Xi’s piece about 9/11 was featured on CNN.com and he’ll be giving an artist talk at  the Denver Art Museum on October 26th, 7 pm. If you’re in the area, do come!

The blog posts have been somewhat scarce, I know, but look for some steady writing from me late September or early October, as I’ll be previewing different artists from Carrie Ann Baade’s Cute and Creepy Show (including Ray Caesar, whose Descent appears on the left). Would love to see many familiar faces at my lecture and gallery walk. I promise you, it won’t boring.


The Fantastic in Lit, Art, and Film

Fantasy Matters is a website started by Kat Howard and Jen Miller, two academics who believe in the transformative, wonderful power of fantasy literature, art, and all other related media. You’ll see academics, artists, and writers talking about the stories that you have come to love.

AND you can check out my essay on Kanai Mieko’s “Rabbits,” because hell yeah, I get to write for them too. And it brings together my love for narrative and teaching the powerful rhetoric found in stories and art that engage the fantastic, uncanny, and grotesque.