Woke Sci-Fi and The Iron Dream
Yes, I *did* pick the most absurd cover I could find for The Iron Dream! So the other day I read Norman Spinrad’s The Iron Dream (which somehow managed to be the […]
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The Garden by HP Lovecraft
There’s an ancient, ancient garden that I see sometimes in dreams, Where the very Maytime sunlight plays and glows with spectral gleams; Where the gaudy-tinted blossoms seem to wither into […]
An Analysis of Lovecraft’s Dreamland
You all know my fandom of HP Lovecraft, and how I have argued that his mythos of madness and decay represents the closest thing America has to an authentic mythological […]
Lovecraft Represents An American Mythos
Several articles I have written in the past have made it quite clear that I am a big fan of pulp fiction—not only is it often brilliantly written, not only […]
The Wisdom of Pulp Literature
If you’ll recall, a few weeks ago I wrote an article on how pulp fiction should be taught in schools as a method of getting young boys to read—and more […]
Why Do Boys Not Read?
If you read news of academia, and in particular pedagogy (my father is a teacher and I’ve been a teacher in the past, so I keep abreast of what’s going […]