R.I.P. Harvey Pekar
Cleveland comic-book legend Harvey Pekar has died. Pádraig Ó M éalóid’s review of Pekar’s The Beats can be found on 3:AM here. We recommend a listen to Ed Champion‘s interview with Pekar and always worth reading, Pekar’s jazz columns.
Music for Mall Car Parks
By Ewan Morrison. More info on Tales from the Mall in The List.
Well Versed in the Uncanny: An interview with Nicholas Royle
I love short stories and think they deserve the same status as novellas or novels – to be published singly within card covers. That’s not to say I don’t like collections and anthologies. I do, very much so. There’s no doubt that fewer mainstream anthologies are being published and that’s a great shame, although there’s plenty of activity in the horror genre and among small presses. I can’t claim to be reaching a wide readership with the Nightjar Press chapbooks – with editions of only 200 and 300 so far – but the venture is born out of a genuine love for the short story. It’s my favourite form, both as a reader and as a writer.
Alan Kelly talks to Nicholas Royle.
A Day in the Life of Spencer McCormick 6
Spencer McCormick is the Regional Head of Human Resources for a multinational corporation (the name of which we cannot disclose for legal reasons). He drives to work, he wears a suit, he works nine to five, thinks that he pays too much tax and watches Dancing with the Stars. In all this he is just like many other men. Recently, however, he has begun to sense that he doesn’t quite fit in. He has had strange dreams of running wild and naked through the streets. Strange compulsions have begun which he must keep secret from his fellow office workers. “Who am I really?” asks Spencer as he stares in the mirror. And why does my wife make me eat from the floor? Daily, his estrangement grows.
Spencer McCormick is back!