The Labyrinth, Episode 27 – Robert Pobi, author of “Bloodman” and “Mannheim Rex”. Listen here.
Using writing as a meditation tool (Image via qil.me)
“I don’t think that anything could be more important than to be reminded that, as Flannery O’Connor used to say, “The church is custodian of the sense of life as a mystery.” We get so used to it that we lose the sense. To have the sense restored to us—which the religious experience does and which the poetic experience at its extreme does as well—is a great boon.”
Writing feels like this sometimes.
Currently reading: “Coming of the Third Reich”
New Podcast! The Labyrinth
There’s some really good news today in the blog. I am proud to announce a companion piece, the new podcast called “The Labyrinth.” Welcome to the debut episode of The Labyrinth. The Labyrinth is a show dedicated to finding the strange and unusual stories in our world. On this first episode, your host Cesar Torres talks about doorways, the way they extend into labyrinths. We’ll visit Jorge Luis Borges, John Carpenter’s “The Fog,” and the Minotaur. Week by week, we’ll bring on guests to talk about their own strange stories and answer the question, “What’s the strangest thing that’s ever happened to you?” If you’d like to be on the show, send us an email to me @ cesartorres.net.
Listen Live download link: The Labyrinth, Episode 1
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RIP, Ray Bradbury.
“He died 75 years ago today, in honor of H.P. Lovecraft, thank you for keeping me up at night, you brilliantly dark bastard.” <— My own dreams of cosmic dread and shadows longer than galaxies have been fueled by Lovecraft since I discovered him in a Chicago library in 1991.
