Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues | Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues
Oct.04.2012
My favorite essay in Morbid Curiosity #6 doesn't appear in print anywhere else. Shira B.'s "Talking to Strangers" starts slowly, when a man joins her table at the Borders Cafe near her university. Next thing she knows, he's showing her photos of babies sitting amidst pig's blood in...
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Oct.03.2012
Live events really shaped Morbid Curiosity magazine. After the release of each issue, I hosted a reading at Borderlands Books in San Francisco's Mission District. These included as many of the contributors as I could squeeze into 2 hours. That's how I got to hear M. Christian read...
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Oct.02.2012
This is the 10-year anniversary of Morbid Curiosity's 6th issue. It's one of my favorite issues, careening wildly from the political or the supernatural, with stops at the witchcraft shop, the HR office, and the backwoods.
Contributors included Morbid Curiosity regulars M. Parfitt, Dana...
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Sep.26.2012
I had a great exchange with another writer who wants to begin a magazine full of first-person stories in the vein of Morbid Curiosity, which I edited for 10 years.
His initial note, with identifying information removed:
"I'm studying journalism in Toronto. I was a big fan of your work...
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Dec.08.2011
Borderlands Books recommends Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues as a holiday gift: "MORBID CURIOSITY CURES THE BLUES edited by Loren Rhoads (Scribner, Trade Paperback, $14.99) - A mind-blowing compendium of some of the best from the early (long unavailable) issues of the San Francisco-based '...
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Oct.31.2011
I can't embed video here, but this is the video of me reading "The Mortician's Gift" at the Hypnodrome: http://youtu.be/Rpkeg_0qPMQ
It's the true story of meeting a mortician friend of Leilah Wendell's at the Westgate Gallery one Halloween.
Happy Halloween!
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Sep.22.2011
When Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues came out, I asked to host a reading at Books Inc. on Market. The company events coordinator didn’t want me to do a show in one of their San Francisco stores, since I already had several other San Francisco events scheduled, but the store manager was a...
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Sep.16.2011
My six-year-old wakes me in the middle of the night by touching my face. I am groggy, but manage to whisper, “What’s up?”
“I had a bad dream.”
“Let’s get you settled back to bed,” I say. I force myself to sit up. It’s cold now that I’ve peeled back the comforter. Somehow we...
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Oct.31.2010
Several years ago, I visited New Orleans for Halloween. While at the Westgate Gallery -- at that time, the world's only gallery devoted to the necromantic arts -- I met a mortician who told me a story that still makes me shiver. I'd love to share it with you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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Sep.30.2010
In honor of the first anniversary of Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues, here's a second look at the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2euCWtVxFA
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