Wm Henry Morris
@wmhenrymorris.com
gently painting genre (and sometimes lit fic) into a corner; he/him
[also: music on bandcamp as Will Esplin]
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Wm Henry Morris
@wmhenrymorris.com
· Oct 7
Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, story collection | WHM
Wm Henry Morris's first collection of science fiction and fantasy short fiction
wmhenrymorris.com
No story collection is worth buying for just one story, and I’m definitely not suggesting mine is.
What I can say is my story “After the Post-Apocalypse” interrogates both post-apocalyptic fiction and the literary impulse itself, and I think you should read it.
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
What I can say is my story “After the Post-Apocalypse” interrogates both post-apocalyptic fiction and the literary impulse itself, and I think you should read it.
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
Minnesota folks: I visited The Museum of Russian Art yesterday for the first time, and their exhibition of paintings by two artists from Novosibirsk is worth seeing. It runs through March 8, 2026.
tmora.org/2025/09/12/t...
tmora.org/2025/09/12/t...
Two Siberian Artists at the End of the Soviet Era
TMORA presents forty paintings created by two Novosibirsk artists at the end of the Soviet epoch. Not a lot of art reaches the Western Hemisphere from Siberia. This remarkable collection was brought t...
tmora.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Minnesota folks: I visited The Museum of Russian Art yesterday for the first time, and their exhibition of paintings by two artists from Novosibirsk is worth seeing. It runs through March 8, 2026.
tmora.org/2025/09/12/t...
tmora.org/2025/09/12/t...
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Anyway, the point is this: writers can be very poor too. Writers in the global north can be remarkably poor. Cultural capital is not easily exchanged for economic capital, especially in this era of tech disparagement of the arts.
Think of the poorest American you can imagine. That can be a writer.
Think of the poorest American you can imagine. That can be a writer.
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Anyway, the point is this: writers can be very poor too. Writers in the global north can be remarkably poor. Cultural capital is not easily exchanged for economic capital, especially in this era of tech disparagement of the arts.
Think of the poorest American you can imagine. That can be a writer.
Think of the poorest American you can imagine. That can be a writer.
every meme has its thorn
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
every meme has its thorn
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casaubon as a lovecraft protagonist who never actually encounters the blasphemous horrors
been enjoying Middlemarch as a novel about why you shouldn’t marry H.P. Lovecraft
November 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
casaubon as a lovecraft protagonist who never actually encounters the blasphemous horrors
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Not quite experimental, not quite weird, not quite core genre, but containing elements of all three is how I describe my new(ish) story collection & the more distance I get from publishing it the more I’m convinced that description fits: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, story collection | WHM
Wm Henry Morris's first collection of science fiction and fantasy short fiction
wmhenrymorris.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Not quite experimental, not quite weird, not quite core genre, but containing elements of all three is how I describe my new(ish) story collection & the more distance I get from publishing it the more I’m convinced that description fits: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
Not quite experimental, not quite weird, not quite core genre, but containing elements of all three is how I describe my new(ish) story collection & the more distance I get from publishing it the more I’m convinced that description fits: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, story collection | WHM
Wm Henry Morris's first collection of science fiction and fantasy short fiction
wmhenrymorris.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Not quite experimental, not quite weird, not quite core genre, but containing elements of all three is how I describe my new(ish) story collection & the more distance I get from publishing it the more I’m convinced that description fits: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
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The reviews are in!
The Curators by Maggie Nye
reviewed by Roy Salzman-Cohen
Dementia 21 volumes 1 and 2 by Shintaro Kago
reviewed by Shannon Fay
We Like It Cherry by Jacy Morris
reviewed by Ian J. Simpson
Find your next favourite book at the link to the latest issue in our bio!
#bookreviews
The Curators by Maggie Nye
reviewed by Roy Salzman-Cohen
Dementia 21 volumes 1 and 2 by Shintaro Kago
reviewed by Shannon Fay
We Like It Cherry by Jacy Morris
reviewed by Ian J. Simpson
Find your next favourite book at the link to the latest issue in our bio!
#bookreviews
November 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The reviews are in!
The Curators by Maggie Nye
reviewed by Roy Salzman-Cohen
Dementia 21 volumes 1 and 2 by Shintaro Kago
reviewed by Shannon Fay
We Like It Cherry by Jacy Morris
reviewed by Ian J. Simpson
Find your next favourite book at the link to the latest issue in our bio!
#bookreviews
The Curators by Maggie Nye
reviewed by Roy Salzman-Cohen
Dementia 21 volumes 1 and 2 by Shintaro Kago
reviewed by Shannon Fay
We Like It Cherry by Jacy Morris
reviewed by Ian J. Simpson
Find your next favourite book at the link to the latest issue in our bio!
#bookreviews
At just 5k words with another 800 or so to go. Then a revision or two, and if all goes well, it'll go up on wmhenrymorris.com on Dec. 1.
November 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
At just 5k words with another 800 or so to go. Then a revision or two, and if all goes well, it'll go up on wmhenrymorris.com on Dec. 1.
walking is nice
walks are a great time
we should reorient all of society around time and spaces for walking
walks are a great time
we should reorient all of society around time and spaces for walking
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
walking is nice
walks are a great time
we should reorient all of society around time and spaces for walking
walks are a great time
we should reorient all of society around time and spaces for walking
Call me basic and belated, but I just listened to Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten by Arvo Pärt for the first time, and I love it.
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Call me basic and belated, but I just listened to Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten by Arvo Pärt for the first time, and I love it.
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You can doomscroll or you can make zines
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
You can doomscroll or you can make zines
_ In fact, this past May at the Google I/O developer conference, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said that he thinks we might not need to render web pages at all in an agent-first world_
[so what’s the incentive for the content and service providers to continue to provide content and services?]
[so what’s the incentive for the content and service providers to continue to provide content and services?]
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
_ In fact, this past May at the Google I/O developer conference, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said that he thinks we might not need to render web pages at all in an agent-first world_
[so what’s the incentive for the content and service providers to continue to provide content and services?]
[so what’s the incentive for the content and service providers to continue to provide content and services?]
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This is from Renee Gladman’s The Ravickians, which I finished reading at the very end of my commute to campus this morning & it is an astounding thing.
_Cousins, when you are writing, it is always the other place that haunts you. The place you just were_
November 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This is from Renee Gladman’s The Ravickians, which I finished reading at the very end of my commute to campus this morning & it is an astounding thing.
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NBA Executives around a summoning circle working around the clock to prove that magic is real so they can cast Cure Light Wounds on all the players instead of having them play 1 less game a season
Shams: NBA launching league-wide biomechanics assessment program in attempt to reduce injuries moving forward.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
NBA Executives around a summoning circle working around the clock to prove that magic is real so they can cast Cure Light Wounds on all the players instead of having them play 1 less game a season
This is from Renee Gladman’s The Ravickians, which I finished reading at the very end of my commute to campus this morning & it is an astounding thing.
_Cousins, when you are writing, it is always the other place that haunts you. The place you just were_
November 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This is from Renee Gladman’s The Ravickians, which I finished reading at the very end of my commute to campus this morning & it is an astounding thing.
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_For those of us who care about art and books and, at some cost, both the continued production of new work and survival of what has been made, this is a challenging time. But from my tiny perch here, I encourage anyone reading this to stop playing rigged games_
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
_For those of us who care about art and books and, at some cost, both the continued production of new work and survival of what has been made, this is a challenging time. But from my tiny perch here, I encourage anyone reading this to stop playing rigged games_
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
_Cousins, when you are writing, it is always the other place that haunts you. The place you just were_
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
_Cousins, when you are writing, it is always the other place that haunts you. The place you just were_
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more coverage of this administrative buzzword coup
“vision new synergies of the future with the School of Human Expression”
"eliminating all the academic departments in a liberal arts college that is not hemorrhaging enrollment would be a very unusual step."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...
“vision new synergies of the future with the School of Human Expression”
"eliminating all the academic departments in a liberal arts college that is not hemorrhaging enrollment would be a very unusual step."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
more coverage of this administrative buzzword coup
“vision new synergies of the future with the School of Human Expression”
"eliminating all the academic departments in a liberal arts college that is not hemorrhaging enrollment would be a very unusual step."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...
“vision new synergies of the future with the School of Human Expression”
"eliminating all the academic departments in a liberal arts college that is not hemorrhaging enrollment would be a very unusual step."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...
_For those of us who care about art and books and, at some cost, both the continued production of new work and survival of what has been made, this is a challenging time. But from my tiny perch here, I encourage anyone reading this to stop playing rigged games_
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
_For those of us who care about art and books and, at some cost, both the continued production of new work and survival of what has been made, this is a challenging time. But from my tiny perch here, I encourage anyone reading this to stop playing rigged games_
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
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_When there is so little left you do not give it to one, you fight to keep that thing in the mainstream_
November 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
_When there is so little left you do not give it to one, you fight to keep that thing in the mainstream_
This is a major part of why the lack of progress in improving the Analog, Asimov’s, and F&SF contracts is such a loss for the field as a whole: it means not just losing venues for writers to submit to—it also leads to limiting the reach and work of excellent editors.
I'm in the current issue of Analog. I managed to negotiate to a contract I was willing to sign. Naively, I thought that established writers giving this feedback would eventually make a dent.
It hasn't. I don't know that it will. I just wrote to Trevor withdrawing a story I'd sold to him.
It hasn't. I don't know that it will. I just wrote to Trevor withdrawing a story I'd sold to him.
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This is a major part of why the lack of progress in improving the Analog, Asimov’s, and F&SF contracts is such a loss for the field as a whole: it means not just losing venues for writers to submit to—it also leads to limiting the reach and work of excellent editors.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
_When there is so little left you do not give it to one, you fight to keep that thing in the mainstream_
November 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
_When there is so little left you do not give it to one, you fight to keep that thing in the mainstream_
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This has been two months in the making. The essay was written in September, the podcast recorded in October, and now both are available in November.
So here it is: my 10k word essay on the overlong and bafflingly insubstantial 2005 vampire historical thriller about Dracula, Kostova's THE HISTORIAN
So here it is: my 10k word essay on the overlong and bafflingly insubstantial 2005 vampire historical thriller about Dracula, Kostova's THE HISTORIAN
Reading “The Historian” by Elizabeth Kostova
In which I return to Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian (2005), a literary fiction vampire novel about historians fighting against Dracula across three generations—which once meant so much to …
seanguynes.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This has been two months in the making. The essay was written in September, the podcast recorded in October, and now both are available in November.
So here it is: my 10k word essay on the overlong and bafflingly insubstantial 2005 vampire historical thriller about Dracula, Kostova's THE HISTORIAN
So here it is: my 10k word essay on the overlong and bafflingly insubstantial 2005 vampire historical thriller about Dracula, Kostova's THE HISTORIAN
"But what if -- and here Adorno and Lacan have some very distant echoes of each other -- what if desire can never be satisfied? [Pounds fist on desk]"
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
"But what if -- and here Adorno and Lacan have some very distant echoes of each other -- what if desire can never be satisfied? [Pounds fist on desk]"