The Fabulist Words & Art

Best known for her short science fiction, Izumi Suzuki's posthumous novel SET MY HEART ON FIRE is a "unique and thrilling" tale of life and music in Japan's 1970s demimonde. Reviewed by Nick Mamatas. https://lnkd.in/g4eEAKWS

In which we talk with Shana Ross, author of the latest fantastical fiction from The Fabulist Flash, "How To Date A Grindylow." https://lnkd.in/gah-aUMZ

Hello Fabulist Frenz — we're extending our 2024 Reader Survey for our social-media followers! Tell us what you like about The Fab, what we need to improve, and how we can make it sustainable. Polls close Wednesday night. https://lnkd.in/gfnTYy-d Also, here is a picture of a sloth.

GHOSTS IN THE GEARBOX: Artwork by Jeff Mann. A new gallery from The Fabulist! Using cast-off car parts, and an evolving process of metalwork, painting and mask-making, Jeff Mann conjures a world full of organic, dreamlike presences. https://lnkd.in/djWBAWzK #art #fantastical #sculpture #mixedmedia #ghosts #machineart #fantasyart

An insomniac dérive through time and space leaves the wanderer clutching at memory, but desperately empty-handed. THE VISITOR, by Colleen Shoshana McKee. https://lnkd.in/gCpa7UYX #fabulistflash #flashfiction #fantasy #insomnia

MY JOB WAS TO GET FIRED, by Jon Longhi Just as the atomic weight of carbon is a universal standard, Corporate America needed to know the exact amount of pressure it takes to crush a human soul. #flashfiction #workinglife #satire #fabulistflash https://lnkd.in/dDwNpjuW

On Sept. 11, 2001, Haddad was at work as a design director, his office just 30 feet below the site of impact. “As a visual person, the events of 9/11 were overwhelming and I began to shut down,” he writes. “Thankfully my wife had the insight to recognize that I needed to refocus myself … So she bought me a sketchbook and suggested that I use it as a diary in pictures.” Haddad’s wildly diverse and phantasmagorical artworks have the mythic detailing of a tarot deck, and a sense of the grotesque that invokes underground comics, and the work of Ralph Steadman and Gerald Scarfe. https://lnkd.in/gTtxvbxA

On Sept. 11, 2001, Haddad was at work as a design director, his office just 30 feet below the site of impact. “As a visual person, the events of 9/11 were overwhelming and I began to shut down,” he writes. “Thankfully my wife had the insight to recognize that I needed to refocus myself … So she bought me a sketchbook and suggested that I use it as a diary in pictures.” Haddad’s wildly diverse and phantasmagorical artworks have the mythic detailing of a tarot deck, and a sense of the grotesque that invokes underground comics, and the work of Ralph Steadman and Gerald Scarfe. https://lnkd.in/gTtxvbxA

In this book of interviews, a writer plumbs the ultimate question: When failure is a given, why do art? "The Long Run," by Stacey D'Erasmo, reviewed by @nmamatas.bsky.social. #shortreviewsofshortbooks #review #creativity #success #failure https://buff.ly/47qCT95

In this book of interviews, a writer plumbs the ultimate question: When failure is a given, why do art? "The Long Run," by Stacey D'Erasmo, reviewed by @nmamatas.bsky.social. #shortreviewsofshortbooks #review #creativity #success #failure https://buff.ly/47qCT95