Book Review: Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts: Review of Weird Tales of Modernity, by Timothy H. Evans. "Carney’s book is a valuable addition to the literature on its topic. It deserves a wide readership, and a prominent place in the scholarship of American fantastic literature in the early twentieth century."
Book Review: Black Gate: Review of Rakefire and Other Stories, by Seth Lindberg. "The book blurb labels this “Fever Dreams of Sword & Sorcery in an Eld Realm of Unfathomable Beauty and Cruelty” and it also contains “enigmatic tales of horror and fantasy in the pulp tradition.” That summary is spot on. Most of the tales focus on the sorcery end of the spectrum. Jason Ray Carney’s writing style is reminiscent of Lord Dunsany and Clark Ashton Smith (full of pregnant shadows and intellectual skullduggery!)."
TED Talk: The Value of Reading Fiction to Make the Present Less Real. I gave a TED Talk in November of 2022 on the topic of escapist reading, a practice that I am interested in academically, aesthetically, and philosophically.
