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Jeff VanderMeer charts Area X's impossible terrain in his Southern Reach trilogy. The first book of the series, Annihilation, flirts with various genre conventions but warps and refracts them. Most often, VanderMeer is cited as a foremost writer of the New Weird, which, in the tradition of Lovecraftian Old Weird, deals with the wonder and horror at... See more
e-flux • The Word Made Fresh: Mystical Encounter and the New Weird Divine - Journal #92
Vincent recommended A. L. Snijders, who had been writing very short stories for many years with, at that time, more than 1,500 to his credit and still counting. He had in fact invented his own term for what he wrote — zkv’s, short for zeer korte verhalen, or “very short stories.” He had recently been awarded a major prize. Vincent sent a story by S
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