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Hello! Pretty good review- an election, some reading notes, and my essay this time is about my fiction work in progress. I can’t serialize the story, because I might try to publish it. But I can talk about what I’m doing. Hopefully it’s of some interest!

Hello! Welcome to this week’s Melendy Avenue Review. I don’t have a ton of critical stuff today, because I’ve been doing a lot of fiction writing, and I include some discussion of what’s going on there. New readers might want to look at the previous installment

Hello readers! I’ve been plugging along. Reading, writing. Some of the stuff I’ve been reading are series that I want to write essays on once I finish, some are stuff for podcasts or other projects that you’ll hear about in time. Fiction is plugging along.…

Listen now (57 min) | Great book, lousy ending

I gotta level with you

Hello! I’m still working on that project. Have a podcast and an election! ELECTION Which work of Serious Nonfiction should I read next? Farrell Dobbs, “Teamster Power” (1973) - Legendary Trotskyist teamster organizer Farrell Dobbs continues his story of the…

Lucky numbers

Listen now | This is a big one! One my literary heroes, John Dolan aka Gary Brecher aka The War Nerd comes onto RITTOM to discuss Rick Emerson’s “Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries” and the broader…

Happy Bastille Day!

Sorry folks

Listen now (85 min) | On this episode of RITTOM, we talk with Russian historian Kevin Murphy about his Deutscher Prize-winning book, “Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory.” Since the Russian Revolution and its descent…

Hello! Busy times in the Petersphere. I have much to contemplate! But I do have “content.” CONTENTS Reading Election: Graves vs Pynchon vs Rizal Reading Essay: The Decadents and Me ELECTION Hey! Vote for which fancy literary novel I should read first! You…

Prose time!

Busy time

What I've been up to lately

Books and cats

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The Nineties, Man

The Nineties, Man (Again!)

Sorry all, I’ve been crazy busy. A lot of it has been my job. But I also recorded a pretty good RITTOM episode I haven’t been able to edit yet, am doing a lot of reading and outlining for PROJECT X (my expansion of my Gen X/long nineties writing), and even…