Chelsea Davis
@UnrealCitoyenne
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Writer (words @SFC_Datebook @LAReviewofBooks @ElectricLit). Creator of Shrieks & Howls, newsletter on comedy & horror. Audio editor @PseudoPod_org.
San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2015
For the @SFC_Datebook, I reviewed Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk's new novel, a horror story set at a sanatorium on the eve of WWI. https://t.co/G2oz1dBJis
sfchronicle.com
In “The Empusium,” Olga Tokarczuk takes a psychedelic leap from Thomas Mann’s “Magic Mountain” and lands in a sanatorium filled equally with horror and beauty.
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"The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil" [1695] by Valentine Weigel
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Chelsea Davis on Katherine Dunn's story collection: “Dunn roundly rejects the consolations of fantasy and instead applauds the harder beauties of scrappy survival.” https://t.co/zQLNhGJWdS
lareviewofbooks.org
Chelsea Davis considers Katherine Dunn’s posthumous story collection ‘Near Flesh.’
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"'Near Flesh' often treats motherhood and violence as two sides of the same coin, or sword." Chelsea Davis considers Katherine Dunn’s posthumous story collection "Near Flesh." https://t.co/zQLNhGJWdS
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reading about hypertext apps from the 80~90s, back when the role was called "hypertext designer" rather than web designer or developer. many came out of academia, and most failed, but there's sth exciting about seeing such a diverse range of forms that web could take
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One of my favorite paintings by Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti, “The Walnut Tree in Benevento,” 1826.
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Final day to send us your manuscript submissions. ֍
꥟ CROP CIRCLE SEEKS MANUSCRIPTS FOR PUBLICATION. Please send your full length manuscript (short or long) along with a description and author bio. We will be carefully reading your work in order of receiving over the next 2-3 months ꥟
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Subscribe here to catch future essays, or to read the archive. Recent essays cover BRING HER BACK, THE CELL, THE WEDDING PLANNER, etc.:
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In the latest edition of my essay series on horror & comedy films, I discuss SORRY, BABY and THE DEVIL'S BATH. St. Agnes, suffering, and specialness. https://t.co/Pb7TtcLlNa
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ANNOUNCING: CLOAK & DAGGER 🕵️🔪🩸 "Your mind is a locked room as well, and the possessor of its key lurks behind you. The key is a knife." w/ guest editor: @nickgreergkcin artwork: @rvoy__ deadline: December 7 https://t.co/SVWZWMpqxN
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"But who needs sex when you’ve got books? Minerva’s emotional connection to the dead authors she studies is so hot-blooded it verges on the erotic." @UnrealCitoyenne reviews Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s "The Bewitching." https://t.co/s3OnXomteP
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did some more book design, this time in collaboration with author & illustrator mads gobbo. https://t.co/1mclgQJb9a
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In the latest edition of my horror-comedy newsletter, I wrote about Bring Her Back and Bring It On. File under: mourning & melancholia, pirated copies, Nancy Kerrigan. Read here, & subscribe at the link in the comments to catch future installments. https://t.co/S3dgI9fbyD
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For The Brooklyn Rail, I reviewed Naomi Falk’s mesmerizing memoir-in-art, The Surrender of Man. https://t.co/NDM1CeRwKH
brooklynrail.org
An editor and art book designer who has worked in galleries and museums, Falk offers up her own existential and emotional bildung (education) as a case study in how artistic experience might help...
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A reprint of my short story “The Fruits of” appears in audio form on Pseudopod this week. It’s a real treat to hear my words brought to life by narrator Dani Daly and host Kat Day. File under: memory loss, mothers, rot. https://t.co/ekuak3lr8G
pseudopod.org
They’d long since passed the point where road gave way to trail gave way to forest. Bright green ferns now rose to their knees. Around them, old-growth redwoods loomed forth. It had been like this...
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Zoe Rosenberg is a straight-A Berkeley student set to graduate soon. She's also an animal rights activist facing 5½ years in prison for "rescuing" 4 chickens. Her trial could have big ramifications — not only for her movement, but for the meat industry: https://t.co/fLjebr6Rdj
sfchronicle.com
Her best friend is a rooster named Glenn, and the college senior says she has never had alcohol. But her trial for stealing four chickens could redefine animal activism in California and beyond.
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