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Staff Picks: Ghost Stories, Black Books
I absolutely love ghost stories. What luck that Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James showed up in the office! I snatched it up greedily and I’ve been reading one every night. —Sadie Stein It’s a...
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Life Outside of Academia; Ghost Stories
Who are the great American writers of today who do not hold teaching positions or B.A.s or M.F.A.s in literature? It is very frustrating to read that so and so teaches at this or that university, or...
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Christmas with Monte
Up until the early spring of this year, I considered myself an absolute Christmas fiend. Not in the Grinch sense of breaking out the Boris Karloff accent and green grease paint and plotting how I...
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Casting the Runes
From Night of the Demon, a 1957 film loosely based on M. R. James’s “Casting the Runes.” I love being read to. I could pretend it’s because it takes my mind away when I have a migraine or because it...
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Spooky Staff Picks: Smelly Ghosts and Sex-crazed Catholics
From the cover of The Crown Derby Plate. Almost a year ago, old friends gave me a big fat Portugese novel I’d never heard of, which promptly burrowed its way under a stack of old New Yorkers and stayed...
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