TKENDALL
@tkendall.bsky.social
Writer: The Autodidacts (https://whiskeytit.com/product/the-autodidacts/) How I Killed The Universal Man (https://whiskeytit.com/product/how-i-killed-the-universal-man/)
In case you missed it, here's the PW announcement! We're already finalizing the ARC & cover. I am excited. I am ready to make you suffer.
Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 4d agoThe latest @locusmag.bsky.social — which you should subscribe to — has interesting book deal news, including forthcoming titles from @elliottgish.bsky.social @zinrock.bsky.social and @horrorsong.blog
@tkendall.bsky.social I just finished Universal Man, more structured thoughts soon but for now: what? huh? also: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Correct; weird fiction is when you read weirdly
The Brackish Pool: Towards a Critical Practice of Reading Weird Fiction
The ideal reader of the weird has to embrace a kind of wilful suspension of foreknowledge or generic expectation.
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TheGrand547@thegrand547.bsky.social · 2mo agoTrying to bait people by claiming random authors as weird fiction. “Pynchon is weird fiction” “jd Salinger is weird fiction” “Edith Wharton is weird fiction” “Collette is weird fiction” no one can stop me
New WYRD_SIGNAL and SFULTRA within roughly a week of one another, folks podcasting is back.
Rico Charges@nochorus.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew SFULTRA. I talk about the latest Antoine Volodine translation The Monroe Girls and discuss whether the many things that make him great may also make him a hard sell, even to uh...'brodernists'(???). Free to all on this link or in all the usual pod places soon. www.patreon.com/posts/159229...
ICYMI: I had sheafs of notes and thoughts left after this conversation so I turned them into an essay performing a paranoid reading of the Southern Reach and Area X as metaphors for the struggle for a border(less) definition of the genre of weird fiction (as I am wont to do)
Haunted By Genre: A Paranoid Reading of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach
Zachary Gillan Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation builds to a question: “What does the border look like?” In a series full of striking scenery and uncanny doppelgangers, it’s a reminder that some of it…
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A Meal of Thorns@mealofthorns.bsky.social · 11mo agoIt's finally upon us—although perhaps we shouldn't be so certain about when and where it exists: @megapolisomancy.bsky.social is on the pod to talk about Jeff VanderMeer's AUTHORITY! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/09/08/a...
Well, everyone knows Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach books are about climate change. What this essay presupposes is... maybe they aren't?
Ancillary Review of Books@ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 3mo agoNew featured essay! "Haunted By Genre: A Paranoid Reading of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach" by @megapolisomancy.bsky.social
Includes a link to a great review of Thomas Kendall’s How I Killed The Universal Man, which I also reviewed (and loved) a few years ago. Excellent book for our absurd and unsettling post-cyberpunk(?) age
All That is Solid Melts into Air: a review of How I Killed the Universal Man by Thomas Kendall from Zachary Gillan - Seize The Press
Some leftists avoid the term “late capitalism” because of its implication that we’re nearing capitalism’s end, running against our pessimism of the intellect, even as it thrills the optimism of the wi...
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Ancillary Review of Books@ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 3mo agoSome "reviews", some "takes", a reminder to check out @gifcon.bsky.social, and yet another plug-slash-plea to share ARB's super-cool fundraiser: it's the Wow! Signal for May!
Over at my Substack, I take a look at How I Killed the Universal Man by Thomas Kendall from @whiskeytit.com
Some new writing I’m working through probably from the fourth novella in the book: thomaskendall.substack.com/p/so-what-if...
So What If A Strange Kid Makes A Film about Love? (Official Exhibition Catalogue)
(Excerpt from 'A Clearing,')
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Anyway, HOW I KILLED THE UNIVERSAL MAN by @tkendall.bsky.social — if I compare these early pages to NEUROMANCER, it is (1) to emphasize that the prose has Gibson’s rightfully celebrated quality of fluid confidence (every page has at least one paragraph that is just as fucking cool as peak Gibson)…
Interesting review of how I killed the universal man up here youtu.be/LE4ABZPb9eA?...
Weird & Wild Reads | Extreme, Surreal & Experimental Books | horror, scifi, litfic, noir
YouTube video by Chanel Chapters
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Interesting review of how I killed the universal man up here youtu.be/LE4ABZPb9eA?...
Weird & Wild Reads | Extreme, Surreal & Experimental Books | horror, scifi, litfic, noir
YouTube video by Chanel Chapters
youtu.be
youtu.be/6NOIIZMCJtg?si… had a really enjoyable (for me at least) talk with @chriszeischegg here:
Thomas Kendall & Christopher Zeischegg in Conversation
YouTube video by Christopher Zeischegg
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The Bookworm's Rules | Reading advice from Michael Silverblatt biblioklept.org/2026/02/16/t...
The Bookworm’s Rules | Reading advice from Michael Silverblatt
The great reader Michael Silverblatt, host of Bookworm, has passed away at 73. Silverblatt was a powerful influence on my development as an adult reader, and his approach to reading helped shape my…
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Thomas Kendall's How I Killed the Universal Man (Book acquired, 23 Jan. 2026) biblioklept.org/2026/01/29/t...
Thomas Kendall’s How I Killed the Universal Man (Book acquired, 23 Jan. 2026)
I started Thomas Kendall’s second novel, How I Killed the Universal Man last night. Good stuff so far. Blurb from publisher Whisk(e)y Tit: John Lakerman, alternative current affairs journalis…
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And then the first of our essays: the inestimable @megapolisomancy.bsky.social on (what else?) the weird. What is really striking about this piece is the way in which it advocates for critical reading as productive practice, for "weird reading as a way of thinking critically about the world."
The Brackish Pool: Towards a Critical Practice of Reading Weird Fiction
The ideal reader of the weird has to embrace a kind of wilful suspension of foreknowledge or generic expectation.
strangehorizons.com
It was really awesome to work on this piece and learn about weird fiction from the best person to learn from about weird fiction!
Zachary Gillan@megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 7mo agoUp now at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, I wrote about one of my favorite trilogies, Jeffrey Ford’s The Well-Built City, and what it has to say about living in a society in thrall, the fascist mindset, and the daily work of staying alive.
