Rich Puchalsky's blog

 The very first thing in this book is a quote from Mike Davis' _City of Quartz_, and whatever interdisciplinary area of shelving that is...

(second part of the series is here )   Synthesis  So there are two implicit referential strands in Delicious in Dungeon: Lovecraft and Tolki...

(first part is here )  Can you eat Ents? The reason why a Lovecraftian reading of Delicious in Dungeon is incomplete is because the series ...

 "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters."   This is an extended critical pie...

 This is a very good book about the politics of our contemporary moment, but I'm mostly going to write about where I disagree with it, s...

Why do the Hugos matter?  No one really knows.  Literary awards are usually judged by a group of experienced critics, academics, and/or writ...

  Part III: Why does it matter? Before I go on to plant labor – complete with quotes from Luke 12:27 and Buenaventura Durruti ...