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Reading Roundup, June 2009
For me, June has been a month of getting nothing done. Seemingly everything in my life, from writing to keeping up the house, seems unfinished — the lone exception to that being cases of Yuengling, of which I’ve finished two.  On the book front I’ve finished six, though one of those is a graphic novel and I have a hard time thinking of those as really counting. But hey — I did read Da

Murky Depths #7
Even though the UK’s Murky Depths #8 is out already, I’m just now getting caught up with #7. Everything I said about this magazine in my review of Murky Depths #5 applies in spades to this issue — edgy content, handy format, and super-slick presentation and design. If there were more magazines that looked like [...]

Apex Magazine Reanimates
Nice to have a good newsie sort of follow up to my sky-is-falling recent post on Vanishing Print Zines. Seems Jason Sizemore over at Apex just doesn’t want to let his monster die, so he’s pumping it full of electricity and letting it loose on the world once more. Apex Magazine, a pro-rate market, will [...]

Tangent Online Returns
A few years ago the great short fiction review site Tangent Online ran into some trouble, and had to close. I doubt many of us that read it at the time really expected it to come back after so long, but Dave Trusedale, the organizing force behind Tangent, never gave up. One look at the [...]

Northern Haunts
I am slowly getting caught up with my reading — not only the stuff that I’m supposed to be reviewing, but also those projects of which I am fortunate enough to be a part. Northern Haunts is one such — an anthology of 100 flash fiction stories released back in the beginning of the year. [...]