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    • Farrago's Wainscot was a quarterly journal of the literary weird in fiction, poetry, and experimental wordforms. Issues 1 through 12 ran from January 2007 to October 2009.


      issues: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6   7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12

      issn: 1941-2908

    • Behind the Wainscot was an exhibition of short forms and textual experiments in the "literary weird" mode. A companion 'zine to Farrago's Wainscot, its sixteen issues appeared irregularly from 2007 to 2009.


      issues: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6   7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16

      issn: 1941-2916

Demolish Serious Culture

Nov 25, 2009
Darin
Art, Culture, Uncategorized

You tell ‘em, Asheville!

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Asheville, NC—11/24/09

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Spicy Brains and the Sexy Dead, or Getting Off on the Zombie Apocalypse

Nov 17, 2009
Jason
Film

Bantam Spectra editor David Pomerico has pulled some thoughts on the future of genre lit, responding to feedback from readers. Pomerico is largely correct in his conclusions (especially the fact that Farrago founder Darin Bradley’s upcoming novel Noise is going to be a big book in the coming year). And also in identifying the zombie trend and predicting what’s coming next now that it has reached maturity.

But the readers who fed Pomerico his responses show a lack of vision. From the article:

One of the key comments I’ve heard about zombies is that, unlike vampires and werewolves, witches and sorcerers, zombies just aren’t sexy. More importantly, there’s really no way to make them sexy.

In the parlance of teh Intarwebs: ORLY?

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