Pat Padua Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Pat Padua

Led by 98-year old Marshall Allen, the Sun Ra Arkestra's LIVING SKY is steeped in mortality, and full of life. My @SpectrumCulture review https://t.co/3eACsZmgzW

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Director Suzuki Seijun is known as a B-movie iconoclast, but a fascinating new survey by William Carroll puts the work in context and dispels some misconceptions. My @SpectrumCulture review of SUZUKI SEIJUN AND POSTWAR JAPANESE CINEMA https://t.co/riDx8nh3dc

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TIL of the vaporwave subgenre Late-Night Lo-Fi, which, per Michael Tau's EXTREME MUSIC: “typically sourcing samples from smooth jazz and 80s R&B, this genre tends to evoke the urban environment at 2. a.m. as experienced from a penthouse suite.” HELLO

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Attila Veres’ THE BLACK MAYBE was the best book I read this year (thematically apt 2nd: Nick Tosches’ HELLFIRE). Read about our favorites @SpectrumCulture and buy this one @Valancourt_B https://t.co/hRsi3XXzUa https://t.co/8FpAjnQ0sV

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Just finished Mariana Enriquez’ short story horror collection Things We Lost in the Fire and I need to read her novels right now

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Finished the Crimes section of Roberto Bolano's 2666 and I think I read about more murders than in the entire Richard Stark Parker cycle

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Reading Charles Willeford’s New Hope for the Dead, and boy is he still cranky about having to write a sequel: “A _memento mori_ is a human skull, not a picture of a dog.”

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I laughed, I cried, I was horrified; and I wondered what are the odds I’d read a horror novel about selling the family home in Mount Pleasant. My @SpectrumCulture review of @grady_hendrix ‘ HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE https://t.co/WPCZYIqpfr

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What do you get when you squeeze six Murakami stories into one animated feature w/grotesque character design that recalls Otto Dix? My WP review of BLIND WILLOW, SLEEPING WOMAN https://t.co/TTBbJvm8X6

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“It was too soon. It was too swift. It had passed out of the realm of things that are odd and unpleasant into a sphere where they are so odd that their cumulative effect is terrifying.” The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror (NYRB) by William Sloane; & my tweet strategy

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