Zachary Gillan
@megapolisomancy.bsky.social
Nonfiction about weird fiction at Seize the Press, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nightmare, and Ancillary Review of Books, where I am also an editor. Also jazz, metal, leftism. he/him
https://doomsdayer.wordpress.com/writings/
https://doomsdayer.wordpress.com/writings/
Oh, damn, meant to add CRAFT too, yes
February 2, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Oh, damn, meant to add CRAFT too, yes
You’ve gotta read it!!
February 2, 2026 at 12:05 AM
You’ve gotta read it!!
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Renee Gladman is famous to me, but I also feel like a lot more people should still be reading for her! You could try Theory for Moving Houses: www.wavepoetry.com/products/the...
Theory for Moving Houses by Renee Gladman
You are asking me where I live and it’s making me think all these things about space, where I start and end in space and where space starts and ends in me and when, in space, I am a body and when I’m ...
www.wavepoetry.com
February 1, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Renee Gladman is famous to me, but I also feel like a lot more people should still be reading for her! You could try Theory for Moving Houses: www.wavepoetry.com/products/the...
You, you glow in the dark, for the love of god
February 1, 2026 at 11:45 PM
You, you glow in the dark, for the love of god
Touched on the place of the current New Weirdish stuff in my review for @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org but have also been jotting down some further thoughts so stay tuned, I guess (I agree with Tiernan that it’s more of a through line than a rupture) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/01/05/s...
Synesthetic, Uncapturable, Uninterpretable, Irreproducible: Review of Hiron Ennes’s The Works of Vermin
Zachary Gillan Under Review:The Works of Vermin. Hiron Ennes. Tor Books, October 2025. “In the true work of art”, Walter Benjamin once wrote, “pleasure can be fleeting, it can live in the moment, i…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
February 1, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Touched on the place of the current New Weirdish stuff in my review for @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org but have also been jotting down some further thoughts so stay tuned, I guess (I agree with Tiernan that it’s more of a through line than a rupture) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/01/05/s...
Oh, I like that
February 1, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Oh, I like that
Wasn’t sure where that one fell on the “twee surreal vs interesting surreal” spectrum
February 1, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Wasn’t sure where that one fell on the “twee surreal vs interesting surreal” spectrum
I’ll allow it!
February 1, 2026 at 11:04 PM
I’ll allow it!
Thanks! Japanese lit is a total blind spot for me, youthful enthusiasm for Murakami aside. Really need to do something about that
February 1, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Thanks! Japanese lit is a total blind spot for me, youthful enthusiasm for Murakami aside. Really need to do something about that
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Marie NDiyae's The Witch (Black, French, witch book about a mediocre witch escaping from an oppressive life): bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Witch: A Novel
A Novel
bookshop.org
February 1, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Marie NDiyae's The Witch (Black, French, witch book about a mediocre witch escaping from an oppressive life): bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Reposted by Zachary Gillan
Leila Renee's SOFT SPOTS, a debut novel about family and the ways we do and do not see each other (also funny): bookshop.org/p/books/soft...
Soft Spots: A Novel
A Novel
bookshop.org
February 1, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Leila Renee's SOFT SPOTS, a debut novel about family and the ways we do and do not see each other (also funny): bookshop.org/p/books/soft...
Reposted by Zachary Gillan
T Clark's ALL THIS WANT (AND I CAN'T GET NONE). This is a debut short story collection that is hilarious and cutting about issues of sex and class and gender: bookshop.org/p/books/all-...
All This Want (and I Can't Get None)
Check out All This Want (and I Can't Get None) - <b>A piercing short story collection that explores the feverish hunger and dizzying pleasure of girlhood and queer coming-of-age in a small town, ...
bookshop.org
February 1, 2026 at 7:13 PM
T Clark's ALL THIS WANT (AND I CAN'T GET NONE). This is a debut short story collection that is hilarious and cutting about issues of sex and class and gender: bookshop.org/p/books/all-...
Reposted by Zachary Gillan
'Pemi Aguda's One Leg on Earth: bookshop.org/p/books/one-... (I blurbed this one and it is deeply uncomfortable and weird and beautifully written)
One Leg on Earth
Check out One Leg on Earth - <p>The lonely daughter of a distant mother, Yosoye arrives in Lagos ready to change her life. Weeks after she begins an internship at a fancy architectural firm, she disco...
bookshop.org
February 1, 2026 at 7:13 PM
'Pemi Aguda's One Leg on Earth: bookshop.org/p/books/one-... (I blurbed this one and it is deeply uncomfortable and weird and beautifully written)