Imagine a fictional world in which all your beloved (or despised) dead writers get one last swan song from beyond the grave. Do they find themselves in "heaven", "hell", or something far more strange? And will they ever get around to answering some of literature's greatest mysteries for us, such as: *Why did Rimbaud stop writing poetry? *What type of Heaven awaits C.S. Lewis? *Is Hell other people as Sartre theorized? *Will Joyce ever return to Dublin? *Was Jack Kerouac actually a Buddhist, Catholic, or both? *Just how much was Zelda Fitzgerald plagiarized by her husband? *Do all Brontë sisters go to Heaven? *What type of Hell could ever surpass Beckett's angst for life? *Why did David Foster Wallace commit suicide? *Did Kawabata accidentally leave the gas tap on? *What would Hunter S. Thompson's politic opinion of our present be? *Why did Oscar Zeta Acosta disappear in the Sea of Cortes? *And just what kind of music does Boris Vian play in the hereafter? As well as check-ins with: Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, Gregory Corso, Sylvia Plath, Donald Barthelme, & Jorge Luis Borges. [Additional writers contributing to the anthology: &#381;ana Brankovi&#263;, Ian Drew Forsyth, & Marcella Shepherd.]

Afterlives of the Writers

Literature & Fiction

HOOK, ANDREW

McCormick, Michael

Woomer, Amanda R.

Belardes, Nicholas

DeSantis, M.T.

Hughes, Rhys.

Press, 5th Wall

Encomienda, Alex R.

Mersault, Treyvon

Salis, George

Literary

Independently published

In his debut essay collection, Nicholas Belardes uses today’s pop culture and self-deprecating humor as a filter for discussing personal stories of family, writing, gender, art, and race. He dives into the Harry Potter play and discusses his cursed childhood home. He tells coming-of-age tales of Dungeons &amp; Dragons and blames Stranger Things for jogging those hilarious memories. In great detail he describes how working for a cheesy Las Vegas animation company meant everything to a relationship with his dad. And he presents an unpopular artistic argument for how Tyrion Lannister of Game of Thrones may have ruined his life as a writer (not really). He gives you Star Wars and its weird connections to the Catcher in the Rye (as well as artistic expectations in education). In an essay about race he presents virtual universes, cowboy images of his racist dad, and odd choices of identity in Ready Player One. He even provides a layman’s guide for how to introduce someone to Star Trek while at the same time telling us that what we mimic might not be good for us. He also discusses miscommunication in the world in relation to writing the first original Twitter novel, Small Places. And finally, he describes how American numbness negatively affects the world of art. Belardes presents a side of our humanity working in tandem with pop culture. It isn’t always pretty, though it is hopeful, sometimes funny, and full of promise.

Ranting Out Loud: Life, Pop Culture & How We Sometimes Don’t Get Along

Reference

Mango

The Deading

United States

Erewhon Books

Ten Sleep

A changeling binds a young girl to a mirror and takes her place...A salesman pursues closing a deal until it costs him everything...An ancient Duchess graciously invites you on a tour of her orangerie...This is the world of Crone Girls Press. Here, the shadows keep their secrets and the moon hides from deeds cast in her glow. In these pages, the Fae walk as human, the dead burn with their anger at the living, the creatures that live in the dark places of the wrong zip code creep out of the shadows and into the kitchen. Stories We Tell After Midnight is a collection of short horror fiction from established names in the genre as well as a number of debut authors.Table of ContentsWelcome by Rachel A. Brune"The Orangery" ~ Jane Hawley"L'appel du vide" ~ M. P. Giddings"In Memoriam" ~ Elizabeth Donald "Kitchen Spirits" ~ Nicholas Belardes"Mirrors" ~ J. Summerset"Gatekeepers" ~ Cristel Orrand"Enter the Wolf" ~ Adam N. Leonard"The Soul Within" ~ Jennifer Nestojko"Gobbl'uns" ~ Thea Brune"Have You Come To Let Me Out?" ~ Tina Riddle"It Has to Cool First" ~ Carol Gyzander"Creature From the Blue Lagoon" ~ Dexter Rowland"Uncle Charlie" ~ Christy Mann"Wrong Turn" ~ Adam Messer

Stories We Tell After Midnight

Brune, Rachel A.

Hawley, Jane

Giddings, M.P.

Donald, Elizabeth

Mann, Christy

Orrand, Cristel

Leonard, Adam N.

Nestojko, Jennifer

Messer, Adam

Genre Fiction

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