& more beauties
Have you tried my blog?
Like oysters to some,
and like
oysters
to others.
—Tickle your tastebuds—
A skeleton in my closet
That memento mori: The big picture and little things
"I hate quotations. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I would suggest the
president deploys wisdom to tackle the crisis.. because that is
a diversionary strategy."
–
Benjamin Okike,
"The Nigerian Pen Robbers and the Existence of Boko Haram",
Nigeria Master Web, "King of Cyber Nigeria", 4 Sept 2015
in
the
pages
of this book, the diversity and beauty of Australian cockroaches –
or blattodeans – speaks for itself."
-
David Rentz,
A Guide to the
Cockroaches
of Australia
"The EU would be of more use
if it would stop faffing around with things like the 4th Money
Laundering Directive and standardise kissing at work."
-
comment by 'SmallPaul'
to
"Kissing Business Acquaintances, X, XXX or XXXXX?" by B.R.,
The Economist
"I think most
scientists can talk about what they’re doing and why it’s important
if you let them. But I think most journalists don’t give them that
chance. They think scientists are these weird, geeky people. And
kids have the role models that the press promotes. I heard that the
No. 1 role model in the world is Beyonce — give me a break. If
that’s true, we’re in the most shallow end of the pool."
-
Bob Knight
"Researching popular claims
about the differences between male and female brains is not good for
the blood pressure. The sheer audacity of the overinterpretations
and misinformation is startling."
-
Cordelia Fine,
Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences
"Posters have to be sharp,
attractive and to the point, as well as exploiting ancient
prejudices."
–
Tony Husband,
Propaganda: Truth and lies in wartime
"You might have to wait two
years to buy a new Hermes Birkin bag starting at $15,000, but you
can come to our site today and get it for a saving of $5000."
-
founder of website selling
"castoffs of other couture devotees, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 June
2014
"Human ethics and art are not
a zero-sum equation."
–
Rachen Edidin, "Just so we're
clear",
Postcards from Space
"Baltimore is a rewarding
place to hunt for traces of the middle ages."
–
Jeff Sypeck, "Safe were
the folk words of truth would upset", Quid Plura
"The thing about nurb food, it
was still alive right up until you chewed it up, like fruit is."
– Rudy Rucker,
The Big Aha
“Animals and plants are the
least part of life."
–
Nicholas P. Money, The Amoeba in the Room: Lives of the Microbes
"I think my subconscious must
have a high I.Q."
– Gallegher, in
"Time Locker", Robots Have No Tails) by Henry
Kuttner
"Visit tankmuseum.org
for all of your tank memorabilia needs."
—advertorial
for The Tank Museum (an excellent
museum, but it's sad that they had to put Willy in a stockade)
“We have a perfect
cuisine and the problem is how to streamline the production of foods
of a higher quality than our immediate competitors including
McDonald’s may offer.”
–
Vladimir Putin
"The answer to a book one
doesn't like is another book, not a ban, or legal action, or
physical intimidation."
–
Ramachandra Guha
"Becoming food is the final
stage of living matter. Some are privileged to a delay of the
foreshadowed end. They gain lifetime by being preserved. But a
chosen few turn into objects and will never be crunched between the
teeth of any other living matter.They live anonymous, comatose lives
in the hidden food department of a museum."
–
Linda Roodenburg,
Unidentified
Fermented Objects, in
Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2010
(I
highly recommend the book)
When I read …that
most, if not all, of the global strategic maple syrup reserve had
been stolen, my first response was not to fear for North America’s
waffles or pancakes, but rather to wonder at the very existence of
such a reserve. – Nicola Twilley, Syrup Stockpiles, Wine Lakes, Butter Mountains, and Other Strategic Food Reserves, Edible Geography Let it roast indifferent long. – "Joan", cookbook writer of the 1600s, quoted in Taste: The Story of Britain through its Cooking by Kate Colquhoun Why should a word in a recipe be less important than a word in a novel? One can lead to physical indigestion, the other to mental. – Julian Barnes, The Pedant in the Kitchen Last I called by, Muntjac was roasting in the oven, surfaces brimming with mushrooms gathered, some dried, a hoard: Shaggy Parasols; Chanterelles, orange and sweet-apricot-scented; something blue. Another fellow appeared a basket in his hand large to gather wood, in it full – Penny-Buns, Ceps, plentiful as a baker’s. - Olivia Heal, Notes: On Forage, Mushrooms and the Noma Cookbook Emma lent me a crochet hook so I made many octopi. Several were worn as fascinators and all have found good homes." - Kathleen Jennings, here In the art of postmodernists hedonistic motives are rare; they are basically non-existent in installations and video art projects of recent years. As a kind of postmodernist response, with its intrinsic underlying irony, to the theme of oriental hedonism one can consider the part of a photo-collage diptych inspired by the verses of I. Brodskiy, "We lived in a city the color of petrified vodka". - Akbar Khakimov, Hedonism in Contemporary Art, San'at, (The magazine was created in accordance with the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan 'About the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan' ") "Like a couple at an okay party, who turn up late and spice things up: the horseradish [in a Bloody Mary] makes your sinuses fizz, the celery leaves tickle your cheeks, and and stalk, with the runnels of tomato juice in its furrows, makes an ideal instrument of emphasis in drunken conversation." - Niki Segnit, The flavour Thesaurus I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. - Lillian Hellman, in testimony before the US House Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities, 1952 More in The Cellar ØØØ
Anna Tambour stories that can be read online: The Oyster and Alice O. The Dog Who Wished He'd Never Heard of Lovecraft Stories & poems in the HMS Beagle: BioMedNet archive Temptation of the Seven Scientists The Emperor's Backscratcher
Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson in the Cévennes The Wages of Food-Play Klokwerk's Heart Me-Too
& Try
Bowl of
Critters
an occasional snack
Now serving: The adventures of discovering the ellemehnopee Skin, Fiction, Mushrooms, & Progress Out-of-the-box Serving Suggestion The Mary Quant Jelly Thing & other surprises from the sea And in Heliotrope Magazine A long poem Succession At Quandong Creek
In memoriam
Asher E. Treat (1907 - 2004)
"Actually, Asher was an excellent dinner companion. Anybody who wears a loupe around his neck at dinner, and tells you how he finally trained his box turtle Mabel to listen to his commands (after 35 years), or sent small boys out to catch bats, and then explain how mites can only live in the left ear (right ear in the old world) of moths to evade the bats, or who would build a mammoth box kite and fly it half a mile high off Cobble, or who would play his French horn so that you'd hear it across the valley, Anybody like that makes an excellent dinner companion." - Edward Perkins, in a letter to A.T. — A little Treat — " The lepidopterist who seeks an easy introduction to the Astigmata had best leave his collection and visit the nearest cheese shop. "
Home of The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Bulwer-Lytton a place of compassion in a cruel world
Anna Tambour currently
lives in the Australian bush with
a large family of other species,
including one man.
lives in the Australian bush with
a large family of other species,
including one man.
(Rosie, the beauty
in the picture above, died on the 19th of January, 2006. Her
tributes are firstly
this, and then
this.)
I really hate the
imperative to be an image (why can't people worship my Word?) but
since I've lost this dogfight, here's a current image for Creative
Commons use:
Bomaderry Creek, 2013
Qs and
As
- Schlock Talks, 9 July 2014, Interview by Teodor Reljic
- Interview by Alisa Krasnostein (as part of Aussie Specfic Snapshot 2012)
- Interview by Iain Rowan (as part of his "Writers talk about writing" series), More News from Nowhere, 19 July 2011
- Interview by Mark Farrugia, Andromeda Spaceways, #48, Nov 2010
- Interview by members of Chronicles Network April 2006
- Audio interview by Evo Terra, Dragon Page October 2005
- Interview by Keith Brooke April 2005
- Ben Peek's 2005 Snapshot of Australian Fiction April '05
- Walking Jeff VanderMeer's plank Feb '05
Some Seasoned Preserves Spring October 2015
Hand across the sea
Late winter August 2015
When silk isn't silk
Early winter May 2015
Dragonfly
wings
Early Summer December 2014
The most haikuable tea tree
Spring November 2014
What doesn't kill you makes you curiouser
Late Summer February 2014
The Smyrnas ripen
Spring October 2013
Bessie
Winter August 2012
Tea moulds conviviate in a crazed pot.
Autumn March 2011
Summer December 2011
another
Magnificent Insignificant
Spring October 2011
"Native peach"
Trema
tomentosa
showing leaf curl that could
be caused by a virus, though
"peach" is caused by a delusion
winter July 2011
An oddly
exhibitionistic
mantis
Summer January 2009
Fresh from the ground, a cicada
If
we had been made in the image of Cicada, what price gold and
rubies?
Review of Australian
Fiction
Volume 22, Issue 2 featuring new stories from Anna Tambour/Simon Brown and Laura E. Goodin.
When you purchase this ebook issue you will receive:
-
an ebook in Kindle-compatible mobi format
-
a DRM-free ePub (compatible with iPhone/iPad, Android devices, Kobo, Nook, and most other eReaders)
March 2017 the new novel
from
infinity plus
November 2016 "The Dog Who'd Been Dead" in
from PS Publishing
December 2015 from Cheeky Frawg Books the e-edition
shortlisted for
the 2013
World Fantasy
Award
Anna Tambour is a rogue punk-prophetess whose writings not only stray from the beaten path; some of them are so far out there that you can hear the distant drums of strange story-tribes being awakened by her prose. - I O’Reilly, British Fantasy Society
Books by A.T. & Publications with Tambour stories & Online stories
2015 August release: from Ticonderoga Publications
The Finest Ass in the Universe
with an Introduction by
Jeffrey Ford
Elation, compulsion,
exploration, love and exquisitely timed bullying, a lascivious
oyster, a man called Eggplant, the dangers of smelling like honey
pudding, the enticement of innocent toadlets, the unending day of
deadness. The daughter of a part-time magician and a Las Vegas
showgirl turns to science, destiny points a young man to brassiere
design, suddenly orphaned siblings try to protect their most
vulnerable, fortunes craze in neighbourhoods living cheek-by-jowl.
Unintendeds abound, as life cavorts in all its unclassifiable
contrariness.
"The Finest Ass in the Universe
is a ventriloquist's delight,
invoking a multitude of voices, places, and styles ? whimsy as sly
and telling as the snarky poetry of Lewis Carroll, beauty you won't
soon forget, horror that will leave you helpless with laughter ? yet
one master chef made the whole banquet. (Listen between the lines,
to hear the underlying song.)"– Faren Miller, Locus Magazine
"It would be inaccurate to say each story in The Finest Ass in the Universe takes your hand and pulls you into its world. Rather, each story dunks you headlong into the vortex of its world ... It is unlike anything I have read before."
– Cecilia Quirk, The Melbourne Review of Books "Tambour is one of those writers who writes carefully and exquisitely and slowly ... To have twenty six-short stories collected in one place (including five originals) is seriously exciting." – Alexandra Pierce, Aurora Australis, Tor.com
and unlike tablets, the hardback
has flaps
Newest Release "Curse of the Mummy Paper" in
Postscripts #34/35 Breakout
An
anthology
edited by Nick Gevers
from
PS Publishing
"The Gun Between the Veryush and the Cloud Mothers" in
Asimov's Science Fiction April/May
2015
"Wiseman's Terror Tales" in
from
Jurrasic London
(All proceeds go
to support UK charity Mosac)
2014 "Ahem," said Moses. "The Old Testacles" a short story in The Cascadia Subduction Zone
—Free to Read at Tor.com—
"The Walking-Stick Forest"
a short story
The gorgeous painting is by Karla Ortiz. See more of her artwork here.The Art Director is Irene Gallo.
This short story was acquired and edited for Tor.com by consulting editor Ellen Datlow.
I wrote the "The Walking-Stick Forest" for Ellen, who has not only given me the most inspiring rejections but has been the best guide any writer could dream of.
2013
"Bowfin Island" in
from
Eibonvale Press
Caledonian Dreamin'
Strange Fiction of Scottish Descentedited by Hal Duncan and Chris Kelso "There just isn't an English word to conjure up the specific mode of gutted thwartedness that is the sickening sensation of being scunnert." - Hal Duncan Every library, public and private as the little room, should have this fascinating and playful collection.
"Marks and Coconuts" (my paean to parrots) in
from PS Publishing
Postscripts #30/31 Memoryville Blues edited by Peter Crowther & Nick
Gevers
"The Dog Who Wished He'd Never Heard of Lovecraft" reprinted from Lovecraft eZine #13, April 2012 in
from
Ticonderoga Publications
The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2012 edited by Liz Grzyb
and Talie Helene
CRANDOLIN shortlisted for the 2013 World Fantasy Award “With the appearance of her new novel, Crandolin, she will surely register Richter-powerful on the delighted synapses of all patrons of weird, funny fabulism ... But what’s really central to Tambour’s tale is the romance of food.” —Paul Di Filippo, Review, Locus Magazine “By turns lyrical and absurdist, whimsical and elegantly true, Crandolin is unlike any novel you will ever have read. Anna Tambour is brilliant, a true original.”
—Lucius Shepard "Most of all, this book is completely original. And how many times do you find a book like that? I read a few hundred of the blasted things a year, and even I only encounter one or two really, really unique books on a good year. If I don't read another book as original, whimsical, witty and wondrous as this all year, it will still have been a very good year. Heck, a very good decade." -Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, Review, Aaahfooey "At heart Crandolin is a rich confectionery, a tapestry woven out of dreams and nightmares, an Arabian Nights tale for the twenty first century with Tambour as
Scheherazade, lulling us with her mellifuous voice and artistry. I loved it, and didn’t want it to end." —Peter Tennant, Review, Black Static
Published by Chomu Press,
2012 (ppb), 2014 (hardback)
Cover
design and artwork by
Christopher Conn Askew
Cartoon "Borscht!" by
Kathleen
Jennings
Internal design and illustrations by Anna Tambour
(Note: As of May 2015, these editions are out-of-print.)
More Magazines and Anthologies with A.T.'s Short Stories "She writes so far left field that you need binoculars to see her." - Girlie Jones, Not if You Were the Last Short Story on Earth 2013 "God" and "Mother Hubbard's Cupboard" in
Missing Links and Secret Histories: A
Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse
edited
by
L. Timmel Duchamp
published by
Aqueduct Press
2012 "King Wolf" in
A Season in Carcosa
edited
by
Joseph S. Pulver Sr.
published by
Miskatonic River Press
with
more by Joel Lane, Simon Strantzas, Don Webb, Daniel Mills,
Gary McMahon, Ann K. Schwader, Cate Gardner, Edward Morris, Richard
Gavin, Gemma Files, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Kristin Prevallet,
Richard A. Lupoff, Michael Kelly, Cody Goodfellow, John Langan,
Pearce Hansen, Laird Barron, Robin Spriggs, and Allyson Bird
Free shipping worldwide from
The
Book Depository
"How Galligaskins Sloughed the Scourge" in
Bloody Fabulous: stories
of
fantasy and
fashion
edited
by
Ekaterina Sedia
published by
Prime Books
with
more stories by Holly Black, Richard Bowes, Genevieve
Valentine, Sandra McDonald, Sharon Mock, Zen Cho, Kelly Link, Shirin
Dubbin, Die Booth, Rachel Swirsky, Maria V. Snyder, Nick Mamatas,
and John Chu
"Murder at the Tip" in
Light Touch Paper
- Stand Clear
edited
by Edwina Harvey and Simon
Petrie
published by Peggie
Bright Books
with
more stories by Joanne
Anderton, Adam Browne, Sue Bursztynski, Brenda Cooper, Katherine
Cummings, Thoraiya Dyer, Kathleen Jennings, Dave Luckett, Ian
McHugh, Sean McMullen, Ripley Patton, Rob Porteous
The Dog Who Wished He'd Never Heard of Lovecraft Free to read, and/or download the audio version read by Bruce L. Priddy in Lovecraft eZine #13, April 2012 edited & published by Mike Davis
more free-to-reads:
from Phantasmagorium #1 Decemberish 2011 edited by Laird Barron "Cardoons!" a terrifying tale of veg and WARNINGs Read Cardoons! online here"The Oyster and Alice O." in FLURB a Webzine of Astonishing Tales Issue #12 "Fall–Winter" 2011 edited and illustrated (in paintings and photographs) by Rudy Rucker.
2011 New e-editions from infinity plus "Tambour could be called an infinity plus 'discovery' ... Monterra’s Deliciosa is a delicious collection of often startling and outrageous tales." – Paul F. Cockburn, Interzone, May-June 2011 "I have particularly enjoyed Monterra's fable, and have read it to my pigs Alice, Ferdinand and Isabella, who also appreciated its humour and scope."
–Tom Jaine
This
edition includes a
Even this infinity plus e-dition includes
never-before-seen additives
Infinity Plus
Singles #10 and #15
2010 Sprawl edited by Alisa Krasnostein Published by Twelfth Planet Press
"Gnawer of the Moon Seeks Summit of
Paradise"
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
in #44, the
cover story
"The Eye of Nostradamus Summit"
(cover
art by Marc McBride)
in #46
"How Galligaskins Sloughed the Scourge"
in #42
"The Arms of Love and Death"
June 2010
"Dreadnought Neptune"
2009 Lovecraft Unbound edited by Ellen Datlow
"Sincerely, Petrified"
2008 The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices edited by Ellen Datlow
"Gladiolus Exposed"
Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy edited by Ekaterina Sedia Published by Senses Five Press
"The Age of Fish, Post-flowers"
Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy, Volume 4 edited by Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt Published by MirrorDanse Books
"The Jeweller of Second-hand Roe"
Scary Food: A Compendium of Gastronomic Atrocity edited by Cat Sparks Published by Agog! Press
"Tasty Morsels"
& other
stories
2007
EŞİK CİNİ 13
Two stories (The
tiger and the mice &
Sweat, Joy, and Thunderation) and an interview,
translated into Turkish by
Nurduran Duman
Eþik Cini means 'Elf of
Sills'
The Workers' Paradise edited by Russell B. Farr and Nick Evans
"Seahoney"
Subterranean #7 edited by Ellen Datlow
"The Jeweller of Second-hand Roe"
Aurealis Award,
Horror Short Story
Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories edited by John Klima Order here or ask for it at your bookstore
"Pococurante"
Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing edited by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss
"The Shoe in SHOES' Window"
"The Syncopation Streak"
Polyphony 6
edited by Deborah Layne and
Jay Lake
"The Beginnings, Endings, and Middles Ball"
Read it in Omnidawn's
free sampler
ParaSpheres:
Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories
edited by
Rusty Morrison & Ken Keegan
"See Here, See There"
Agog! Ripping Reads
edited by Cat Sparks
"The Slime: A love story"
Lady
Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 19
edited by Gavin Grant and
Kelly Link
"The Cat Story"
Andromeda Spaceways, #24
edited by Edwina Harvey
"There is No Rice Pudding in the Sea" Fantasy Magazine, #3 edited by Sean Wallace
in Mythic Delirium edited by Mike Allen a poem: "Trapped Words" Hear it read by Alistair Rennie
A Novel and a Collection by A.T.
A Locus Recommended Reading List Selection
I shot him a look that would pierce most people of my acquaintance.
He looked blandly back. However, he seemed truthful.
Angela Pendergast, escapee from the Australian bush, grew up with the smell of hot mutton fat in her hair, the thought of her teeth crunching a cold Tim Tam chocolate biscuit -- the height of decadent frivolity.
Now, though her tastes have grown and she knows absolutely what she wants, her life is embarrassingly stuck.
So when the Devil drops into her bedroom in her sharehouse in inner-city Sydney with a contract in hand, she signs.
He's got only a Hell's week to fulfil his side, but in the meantime he must chaperone her -- or is it the other way around?
The SF Site: Featured Review by Rich Horton "...a wicked, thoroughly unpredictable romp . . . Spotted Lily might just be a particularly inventive comic take on wish-fulfillment, but soon enough it strays far from the beaten path...a dizzying but delightful journey through old myths and modern chaos, turning Faust and Pygmalion on their ear as it cuts its own path toward something like self-knowledge." - Faren Miller, Locus
"I hate giving away the story, but allow me to say that this novel is not going where you think it is....teaming with genuine wit and humor... excellent writing...One thing I’m sure of is that it should be required reading for all those who go into writing fiction with dreams of great remuneration and fame. If it were, Tambour would already be both wealthy and famous." - Jeffrey Ford, 14theditch "One of the things I liked most about this book was that it was so difficult to tell where it was going...the book is so well written that for a lot of the time you don’t actually notice that it has a supernatural element to it." - Cheryl Morgan, Emerald City "It's passionate, it's intense, it's profoundly human and humane and honest, and, when it comes down to it, a hell of a read. I was sitting up late into the night to finish it. It's that good." - Keith Brooke
"This shocker . . . may well
strike some
like a bracing tonic and others
like something
a lot less palatable."
PublishersWeekly
Anna Tambour, on the strength of
Spotted Lily and her earlier story collection,
Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales &, is one of the most
delightful, original, and varied new writers on hand.
- Rich HortonPerhaps you would like to read Chapter One
Published by Prime Books
Cover art for Spotted Lily:
The Artist by Norman Lindsay (Australian) c.1921, copyright © Lin Bloomfield
Stomates on scouring rush, electron microscope view, copyright © Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc.
Book Design: Anna Tambour
and another Locus Recommended Reading List Selection
Monterra's Deliciosa
& Other Tales &
Introduction by Keith Brooke
Table of Contents
Temptation, indulgence, exploration and shortcuts. Love and compulsion. An ocean in Kansas, the Magic Lino, the real story behind the one told by Robert Louis Stevenson, a chef dying of ennui, gathering bluebirds, paying with candywrap. And the greatest story ever told -- by Asher E. Treat, of course. The glorious chaos of singing, prancing, perfumed and stinking, the dead and the busy, tragic and achingly otherwise--life itself.
"A winning, offbeat sensibility is at work in the 31 stories and poems that make up Tambour's first fiction collection, finding the lighter side of potentially sober themes and giving humanist spins to scientific ideas. Certain tales show an exotic spirit that puts them squarely in the magic realist tradition, while others reflect self-consciousness about the craft of writing. All but a handful of these stories are original to the volume, which makes a fine introduction
to a writer little known . . ." - Publishers Weekly
"Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales & could never be mistaken for ordinary genre fiction ...don't imagine this as high falutin' 'lit'rature' accessible only to people with advanced degrees. Anyone with a taste for beauty, audacity, sensuality, and wit can find much to enjoy here." - Faren Miller, Locus
What about Medlars? I admit it. These venerable individualists (and I've known many personally) have charmed me ― so much so that they star in "Valley of the Sugars of Salt" and have managed to shove themselves into cameo roles in a couple of other stories here.
The
virtuous medlar circle
thoroughly bletted
Guest Features Turcotte's Battle by Laura E. Goodin The Fortunes of Mrs. Yu by Charles Tan Previous Features...
More Irresistibles More in The Cellar . . .
Leena Krohn: Collected
Fiction (two volumes)
Why 'youse' deserves its place in Australia's national dictionary
White Spawn
by Marc Laidlaw
Kale can be so dominating
I highly
recommend this memoir / slice of history served with
erudition, wit, and humour honed by places and times:
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food & Longing
by
by Anya von Bremzen
The
Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan
written and photographed
by Eric Hansen
The Butterflies of Australia
by Albert Orr & Roger Kitching
with exquisite illustrations by Orr
READ MY REVIEW
Book of the
Month: Slugs of Britain and Ireland
"Slugs have a bad press."
– Margaret Marks
oo
Frontiers for Young
Minds
"Science edited for kids, by kids"
The Book of Fungi
by Peter Roberts and Shelley Evans
Propaganda: Truth and lies in wartime
edited by Tony Husband
5 Things to do with a Buddha's hand
Death at the Blue Elephant
by Janeen Webb
Delusions of Gender
The
Real Science of Sex Differences
by Cordelia Fine
The hidden world of carnivorous fungi
Just
go and look
A
Memory of Wind
by Rachel Swirsky
The Island of Dr Electrico
the new album from my favourite
group, The Bombay Royale
The Bride Price
by Cat Sparks
the
art of Karla Ortiz
Bellweather
a short story by Marc Laidlaw
The Amoeba in the Room: Lives of the Microbes
by Nicholas P. Money
The Hidden World of Carnivorous Fungi
The Minnow
by Diana Sweeney
Human
Strandings and the Role of the Xenobiologist
a short story by Thoraiya Dyer
Fearful
Symmetries
edited by Ellen Datlow
Ana Kai Tangata
by Scott Nicolay
"When streams are ripe
and swelled with rain..."
Rupetta
by Nike Sulway
Paul DiFilippo reviews Nathan Ballingrud
S.S.
a short story by Nathan Ballingrud
The Big Aha
by Rudy Rucker
Among the Thorns
a novelette by Veronica Schanoes
The Violent Century
by Lavie Tidhar
Animal Earth
by
Ross Piper
Semolina Ma'amoul
by Sawsan Abu Farha
Nari
Kunjar: an unusual art form
by Sirimavo Ediriweera
North American Lake Monsters
by Nathan Ballingrud
Vivien Maier's photographs
"Quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th
century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and
never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone."
Ice Age for
Indian Scholarship
by Apoorvanand
America's Most Surprising Banned Books
by Theunis Bates & Lauren Hansen
Marvel at the creations of
illusionist/photographer
Chema Madoz
The Sound of a Tree
Falling
by Tarabai
The Shadow Year
by Jeffrey Ford
Clown Wolf by Neil Stuart Morton
Cow Dung Paper by Nimaipandit
Stefano Manfredi's Italian Food: Over 500 recipes from the authentic to the
modern and from the north to the south of Italy
Manfredi is one of my favourite people, and his writing about food is the best
writing there is, up there with the great Claudia Roden, because to him also,
food is part of life, history, place.
My story "Valley of the Sugars of
Salt" is dedicated to him.
Medicinal Plants in Australia - Volume 4 - An Antipodean Apothecary
by Cheryll Williams
I highly recommend all
four volumes of this superbly illustrated and exhaustively
researched series. These are wonderfully fat books, beautifully
produced books, packed with trustable information and fascinating
curiosities on every page.
m to us.
Heterodontus Portusjacksoni
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Not just a girl
PPinterest,
"Lifestyle" and Walter Benjamin
waWa
The
Fabulous Beast
byby
Garry Kilworthby
The
Folly of the Worldby Jesse Bullington
Murs à
Pêches
Mr Wiggby Inga Simpson
The
Hyena Stories
Translated from the Urdu by Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad
Introduction by Sayyid Muhammad Ashraf
55
Broken Cameras
A Tiger in Edenby Chris Flynn
The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was
celebrating ~ C.C. Askew ~ Extraordinariest
The Art of Christopher Conn Askew
"His work challenges my descriptive abilities"
On "Unlikeable Characters"
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