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What is this magnetic attraction to a structure that they already know is compromised? It might be that the house—as language, as ideology—is the only place we can run to. It’s all we have to protect us, even when it fails at providing protection.

- Tyler Malone, Every House is a Haunted House.

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“One of the dilemmas we have is that many of America’s greatest artists are very right wing and reactionary, and not very intelligent. But they’re truly great in their own mediums. I think that John Wayne is one of the greatest men ever to step in front of a camera.”

Phil Ochs, 1968

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Tyler Malone, Every House is a Haunted House

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What if John Keats had lived past 25? Paul Kerschen’s ‘The Warm South’ revives the poet

Paul Kerschen’s debut historical novel is an alternative history, imagining what might have happened if Keats had not died of tuberculosis at age 25.

Yay! Paul Kerschen’s debut historical novel THE WARM SOUTH (Roundabout Press) has a lovely write-up from Tyler Malone at the Los Angeles Times:

"The book is an alternative history in which Kerschen imagines what might have been if Keats didn’t die of tuberculosis at the tender age of 25 on Feb. 23, 1821. One can almost envision Kerschen collecting his 'instruments of life,' as Victor Frankenstein did on that fateful night, so that he 'might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing.'"

"The plot that gets underway in THE WARM SOUTH is full of both stuff and matter. It’s reminiscent of Shakespeare, replete with political intrigue, missed connections, gender-swapping disguises and a nested play, as well as deep themes and foundational questions about the imperfect, porous skins that are never quite able to encase and separate art from politics, life, love and duty."

Grab your copy at spdbooks.org!

[goreprofonde]

In The Strangers, one of Halloween’s latter day descendants, the victims ask the three killers their motive. One answers, “Because you were home.” The home, therefore, brings the danger as much as it insulates us from it. While it is generally true what Bachelard claims—namely, that “the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace”—the fact that we believe this wholly, that we allow the house to become a sanctuary in our minds, that we let down our guard in the home, is not only what can turn those dreams into nightmares, but worse, it is what can wake us from our dreams into the worst form of nightmare: a living horror.

- Tyler Malone, Every House is a Haunted House.

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Tyler Malone, Every House is a Haunted House

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Tyler Malone, Every House is a Haunted House

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Tyler Malone, Every House is a Haunted House