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Reading in Public: Tales of Love and Literature, Pt. III

By Ryan DeShon

August 18, 2014

Reading House of Leaves at a bar while waiting for the laundry degenerates into drunken anxiety.

The Five People You Meet at a Mark Z. Danielewski Reading

By Jeffrey Zuckerman

October 23, 2012

Mark Z. Danielewski is best known for his 2000 novel House of Leaves, the story of an editor putting together the papers of a man describing a film made by a family learning that their house is larger inside than outside. Read More

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Escaping a catastrophic blizzard to take peyote in the Arizona desert, Paul Kwiatkowski concludes his investigation into alternate perceptions of consciousness.

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M. R. James was an English author, scholar and inspiration to Lovecraft, though the world may have forgotten it.

The Sun Don't Shine on a Moonshine Still

Get a bleary-eyed view of moonshining from a modern day bootlegger.