3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Coming soon: Lint, the movie. To prepare, you might want to read Steve Aylett’s “definitive biography” on Jeff Lint, described by Alan Moore as “a cultural unearthing to equal those of Philip K Dick or Harry Stephen Keeler“, and reviewed on 3:AM here.
Unqualified Offerings (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
In high school, I read Harry Stephen Keeler’s mathematical fantasy about how the miracle of compound interest led to universal socialism in the fourth millenium. (See also the indispensible Fantasia Mathematica anthology edited by Clifton Fadiman.) After writing about some Perot charts on AOTP, I wonder if, by starting social security and medicare, FDR and [...]
Hellbound Alleee (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
The Harry Stephen Keeler Society Harry Stephen Keeler Home Page Harry Wiki RAMBLE HOUSE (another great site I didn't steal from) WARNING (from our friends at Wikipedia) "The Neutrality" of these pages "is disputed." THE HORROR! Playlist Keeler 1 from The Harry Stephen Keeler Society page Alleee 1 Family Guy * The Spirit of Massachussetts Keeler 2 Yan Tregger * Hard Water Chantal Goya * C'est Bien Bernard...
The Valve (Free subscription) | 01/18/2008
<< | Friday, January 18, 2008 Value-Judgment FridayPosted by on 01/18/08 at 01:34 PMSeems like a great idea for a recurring feature, doesn't it? Anyway, here’s , writing about whether Nabokov’s “The Original of Laura” should be burned: “Think of that: the final ‘distillation’ of the work of perhaps the greatest, certainly the most complex, writer of the past century." 1) Perhaps the greatest? 2) Certainly...
anonymous (Free subscription) | 11/24/2007
HARRY STEPHEN KEELER (1890-1967) is one of the strangest writers who ever lived. In his time, he was pegged as a mystery novelist who also wrote some science fiction. Today, if you've heard of him at all, it's as the Ed Wood of mystery novelists, a writer reputed to be so bad he's good. Some typical Keeler situations: *A man is found strangled to death in the middle of a lawn, yet there are no footprints...
Cynical-C Blog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2007
Holy crap. How did I reach the age of 33 and never hear of this guy before? HARRY STEPHEN KEELER (1890-1967) is one of the strangest writers who ever lived. In his time, he was pegged as a mystery novelist who also wrote some science fiction. Today, if you've heard ...
The Fate of the Artist (Free subscription) | 06/14/2007
S ometimes you have to kick a cover idea around for weeks before it settles into place: Other times it's all there from the first sketch: ********* Journey's Steve Perry held back permission to use "Don't Stop Believin' until Chase told him how the story would end. People mag has the best version. McSweeney's can use a few orders following their distrubutor's bankruptcy. I'm starting with this one:...
