Across the River Styx: A Review of Welcome to Hell by “Bad” Billy Pratt
Welcome to Hell by "Bad" Billy Pratt (Terror House Press, 2021) Welcome to Hell, indeed. The almost-prosaic Welcome to Hell navigates you through the…
Hyperreality as Hell: A Review of Welcome to Hell by “Bad” Billy Pratt
Welcome to Hell by "Bad" Billy Pratt (Terror House Press, 2021) The title is absolutely apt. We discover in the notes that the author takes the title…
We Simply Are Not There: An Interview with “Bad” Billy Pratt
Tomorrow, Terror House Press will release its 27th book: Welcome to Hell by "Bad" Billy Pratt, a trippy, hypnagogic meditation on modern dating, the…
The Nightmare World: A Review of The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare
The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare (Arcade, 2014) The Palace of Dreams is the first book by Ismail Kadare I have read. He is a very respected…
A Wee Bit of Pain in the Gulliver: Kubrick, the Moon, a B-52, The Shining, the Hollyweird Blacklist, a Headache
For a man who made only a dozen major motion pictures (sadly, he died before the final edit of Eyes Wide Shut), Stanley Kubrick was a Hollyweird…
Notes on the Tucson Poetry Festival
Tucson recently held its 35th annual Tucson Poetry Festival, sponsored by the University of Arizona. I didn't go. In the 20 years I lived in Tucson,…
The Crown Seasons 1-4: Surprisingly Good
With Britain entering another pandemic lockdown at the beginning of January, I had little choice but to indulge in the small screen. I decided to…
Mad and Magic: A Review of Love is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski
Love is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski (HarperCollins Publishers, 2002) Love is a Dog from Hell features Charles Bukowski’s poems from 1974…
In Praise of Evil
The words “uncomfortable” and “unsafe” occupy positions of unquestionable power. To ignore them, when they are deployed, amounts to heresy, to…
The Mandalorian: A Great Adventure
With the hilariously flawed and downright disappointing sequel trilogy already forgotten, the Star Wars franchise needed to prove itself worthy of…
