Jeff Baker, Boogieman In lavender: Halloween Reading; Clive Barker
By Jeff Baker The year was 1993 (or pretty close.) I was running a delivery route in-town and on my lunch hour I ran into a used bookstore and grabbed … Read more
By Jeff Baker The year was 1993 (or pretty close.) I was running a delivery route in-town and on my lunch hour I ran into a used bookstore and grabbed … Read more
Writers have day jobs. It’s a plain fact of economics, writing doesn’t pay that much unless the writer is very lucky. We supplant our creative careers with a nine-to-five (or … Read more
Following Oscar By Jeff Baker “In the old days, men had the rack. Now they have the Press.” —Oscar Wilde. It is possible, in the United States, to … Read more
I haven’t read every story by Ray Bradbury, but Graham George Barber may have. Barber contacted me to point out that Ray Bradbury did write at least two more … Read more
Some End-Of-the-Year Rambling By Jeff Baker The end-of-the year is a time for reflections. On the year, … Read more
“Wilde Stories 2018” reviewed. By Jeff Baker Author’s note: My full-fledged, full-length review of “Wilde Stories 2018” … Read more
By Jeff Baker Some reading for Halloween, now. First I’ll open a can of worms and recommend a queer-themed story by a straight author, something a lot of readers or … Read more
Arthur C. Clarke’s Tall Tales Or: A Splash of Science With a Shot of Whimsy on the Rocks by Jeff Baker You come upon the “White Hart” quite unexpectedly in … Read more
Lives are short. Literary lives even shorter. When a writer dies, of course, their output stops; there are no new books or stories being produced. Their memory fades from public … Read more
“All Good Things…” By Jeff Baker For this month, a … Read more