Jeff Parker

Congrats @theloudflower.bsky.social. This is a killer novel!

He let snakes bite him some 200 times to create a better snakebite antivenom Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.

There is a lot of fascinating info in this article, not least: venomous snakes kill tens of thousands per year and permanently disable several hundred thousand more! www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Final speaking on a subject I am a true authority on...

A Tyranny of Dreams: Review of Proper Imposters SAM SPRATFORD <br> Like all good surrealism, <i>Proper Imposters</i> is perhaps more properly called hyperreal—a version of reality that is so dazzling, so over-exposed that you can’t look away, howev...

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A Tyranny of Dreams: Review of Proper Imposters SAM SPRATFORD <br> Like all good surrealism, <i>Proper Imposters</i> is perhaps more properly called hyperreal—a version of reality that is so dazzling, so over-exposed that you can’t look away, howev...

@commonmag.bsky.social weighs in on Proper Imposters and G v P, which is out today: "Each author manages, at various times, to pierce through narrative’s typical strictures into the world of dreams, where fantastical images diagnose with overwhelming clarity the ills of our time."

Proper Imposters Interview: Jeff Parker Proper Imposters – Forthcoming January 2025 Jeff Parker Interview Grace Maxwell: How did the idea for G v. P come about for you—taking these two, tragic writers and putting them together?…

The return of my inarticulate ramblings. This time on the subject of the many correspondences between the lives of Gogol & Poe and on the occasion of the publication of GvP in Proper Imposters: panhandlermagazine.com/proper-impos...

In the realm of being boring, nothing is more thrilling than top-tier chess | James Colley There is something even more wonderfully ponderous than Test cricket – the world chess championship – and this year’s showdown is exceptional

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Imposters take Brookline in Feb!

Since everyone has been waiting for my take on Magnus Carlsen's coverage of the World Chess Championship, it is this: Imagine that Michael Jordan commentated the NBA finals in his first retirement, and after every game calmly, and yet with disgust, explained what he would have done to win.

Looks vaguely familiar. What did I have to say? Anything in relation to three donkeys? I hope so.