The Library of America has posted my short story “Nocturne” on their website:
My son Sam, my daughter-in-law Beth, my granddaughter Kylie, and my new grandson, Ryan, born 9/28/09 at 5:50 pm, weight 8 lbs 6 oz. Everyone doing very well, and very happy indeed.
“I do fear my physical world is getting thinner. When I was younger, I led multiple lives. When I’m here in Porlock, everything flows in again. It doesn’t matter if I’m thinning out. . . . The trees are full, the sea is full and I am getting more ghostly.”
Margaret Drabble, superb British novelist, in this excellent article/interview today: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/magazine/13Drabble-t.html?pagewanted=1&ref=magazine
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Much as I like Margaret Drabble, I would love even more to read the same sort of piece about Beryl Bainbridge.
Peter Straub’s second horror novel, If You Could See Me Now, has just been reissued by Centipede Press in a beautiful new deluxe limited edition, which includes several superb photos by J K Potter and an Afterword by me. It’s a favorite of mine among all of Peter’s work.
This is a new short story of mine, forthcoming from Cemetery Dance magazine (I think it might be in the October issue).
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The old blues, piped on the radio
From Memphis, filters down to me –
I’m not high — like some face
Or photograph I galleried
Many months ago. Big Mama
Thornton reaches out for me
With her sharp laughter tonight.
I have wandered far from home.
I want to smile, now — you know
I’ll send you my urgent SOS
2 or 3 minutes after shutdown
When the mainlines (you know) close.
[1972]
