Wm Henry Morris

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gently painting genre (and sometimes lit fic) into a corner; he/him [also: music on bandcamp as Will Esplin] frozenseapress.com

A screenshot of the "playing next" queue of a music player that is filled solely with the track "No One Last Forever featuring David Cronenberg" fromo the Charli xcx album Music, Fashion, Film
A book cover with 11 bookmarks in the top third where the 11 is light green and bookmarks is in white type and then WHM is in dark grey type towards the bottom of the cover which looks like ice with a bit of dirt and a couple of leaves embedded in it
Cover of Dana Girgorcea’s book An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence, translated by Alta L Price; the cover features geometric shapes in red, black, and yellow
Photo of a product listing for a round cake with white frosting, yellow frosting scallops around the top and bottom, two piped yellow and one whit frosting roses and a large silver-ish cross
Photo of the first three books in Renee Gladman’s Ravicka series spread out on a table next to a copy of The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
The following text on the page of book being held open: It was not just the color or the fact that something useful for something else had been sacrificed to create the bookmark, that annoyed Grant, but also the fact it had been left in the book. He always leafs through his books before returning them. It was, for him, a sort of civic duty like carrying out your trash with you after wilderness backpacking. A burden one removes from the librarians or the next patron who checks out the title. There are editor's marks to remove the comma after bookmark, reverse backpacking and wilderness and insert 'in the' between them and to change the word 'title' to 'book'
A sign posted on a concrete pillar that says “No Loitering”
A photo of a detail form a book cover against what looks like could be concrete or ice two parallel blue-green or geen-blue lines and next to it the word book followed by what could be an r or the start of the letter n or m; below that a black line and the phrase Not for Resale
a portion of a book cover that shows the letters WHM in uppercase against what looks like ice or concrete with leaves embedded in it
A hand holding a homemade breakfast sausage, sharp cheddar, and fried egg sausage English muffin sandwich with a plate of potato chips in the background
Photo of a copy of The Monroe Girls by Antoine Volodine; the cover features an illustration of three strange, hairy, humanoid figures each carrying three red more-human like figures and in the foreground a figure in a ghastly shade of green wearing a gas mask; the book is a library book and has taped on info to show that
An image of the star trek enterprise from the original series orbiting the mirror planet and in lavender start trek episode title typeface the words: there is meritocracy but not for you
A photo of a copy of The Inner Harbour by Antoine Volodine, which features an image of tall buildings next to a dock with boats and water superimposed over a black and white image of a woman’s face
the word narratology set in charcoal ariel typeface against a sea blue background
Photo of a hard bound book with a marine blue cover and green printing. The cover reads Narratology Introduction to the Theory of Narrative by Mieke Bal
Screenshot of an operating pop up that reads Uninstall Copilot. And then on the next line says, There was an error uninstalling Copilot. Please try again later. And then below that is a large blue button labeled with OK.
Photo of the cover of The Shape of the Fantastic : Selected Essays From the Seventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, edited by Olena H. Saciuk, which features white text against a textured blue background
Screenshot of LA Review of Books articles. The text is: Hartwell, though, had literary ambitions. He yearned to raise SF into mainstream respectability, and to this end, he published several genre titles of high literary quality: Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun (1980–83, 1987), Michael Bishop’s No Enemy but Time (1982), John M. Ford’s The Dragon Waiting (1983). But despite several novels winning major awards, including a National Book Award in 1983 for Lisa Golden’s The Red Magician, Hartwell’s imprint failed disastrously on the commercial level. In June 1983, he was fired, and Pocket replaced Timescape with Baen Books, a much more adventure-oriented SF line.
A screenshot of a text editor that uses dark yellow headline text against a cobalt blue background and has the following elements: Filename = ESSAY-WHM-The-Priest-the-City; H1 = The Priest & the City: Katherine Addison's Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy; H3 = DRAFT 1 {March 2026; words}
A screenshot of a Bluesky search for Emerald Fennell middlemarch that shows "no results found"
A screen shot of Elena Tonra (of the band Daughter and her solo project Ed:RE) holding an electric guitar on stage for a BBC guitar concert, speaking into a mic, and the caption says "Strange fun-heartbroken fun."
A photo of a trade paperback copy of Still Life with Murder: A Nell Sweeney Mystery by P. B. Ryan, which features a cover that shows a table filled with grapes, nuts, a large wheel of cheese, and a long sharp knife with an ornamental handle
Photo of a hand holding the book Anathemas and Admirations by E. M. Cioran, translates by Richard Howard
Screenshot of Kanopy's interface showing the number 9 next to a ticket and the account profile with W in an orange gradiant outline box with rounded corners and next to it the name William
Photo of the cover of the very short novel Morelia by Renee Gladman, which feature the title and author’s name in thin orchid type and an ink illustration of what looks like a series of tall buildings. The illustration is by Gladman.
a gray tabby cat curled up against a well and next to a Monet art book
Screenshot of a library web page that shows the front cover of Friendly City: a Year of Walks by Sofia Samatar and a green banner with a check mark that says “Hols requested for Friendly City: a Year of Walks. You are number 1 in line.”
Photo of the front cover of the hard bound version of Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison, which feature the title and author name set in white serif text against a marine blue background with a pattern of ornate gold details, including a car, like what you might see on the ceiling of an opera house
A photo of the bluray case for Last and First Men. In addition to the title the case has the words: A film by Johann Johannsson, Narrated by Tilda Swinton. The case still has plastic shrink wrap on it so all you can see are the words a lot of light reflecting off a black background and a large glowing orange red plump comma-shaped ball
Photo of three books by Renee Gladman with library shelving stickers on them. The books are The Ravickians, Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge, and Morelia.
Screenshot of a text editor featuring yellow text against midnight blue and the words: What if we read A Mourning Coat as Urban Fantasy? DRAFT 1 { ; words} 11/xx/2025 Note that there are spoilers for A Mourning Coat throughout this essay.
Screenshot of Librarything “Name Thar Book” post from January 13, 2021 that reads: czech(?) novel where man goes to country with strange language - A man boards a plane and accidentally ends up in a strange country. He is a linguist and a polyglot but cannot make heads or tails of the language. He is unable to communicate about anything with anyone, but has a series of misadventures and an odd romance. The post has no replies.
Photo of a book being held by someone’s right hand. The book has yellow shapes in it and the words: Event Factory, A Novel, Renee Gladman
A screenshot of a Libby app notification that shows the cover of We Do Not Part by Han Kang and the words "Your hold at MELSA: Twin Cities Metro eLibrary is ready to borrow."
A hand holding a copy of the book Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature: Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, Edward W. Said. The cover is black and the half the words on it are white and half are electric blue
A photo of the print version of the novella A Mourning Coat by Alex Jeffers, which includes a gorgeous illustration of a figure wearing a white coat decorated with light blue outlined clouds; sticking out of the non-spine edge of the book are the edges of several hot pink, small, rectangular post-it notes
A photo of the print version of the novella A Mourning Coat by Alex Jeffers, which includes a gorgeous illustration of a figure wearing a white coat decorated with light blue outlined clouds; on top of the book is a small pack of hot pink, small, rectangular post-it notes
photo of a loaf-pan shaped cake on a white plate, the cake is browned around the edges and split down the top. It is coated with cinnamon sugar that has crusted in places.
The front cover of a mass market paper back titled A Sudden Wild Magic by Diana Wynne Jones. The cover depicts an older women with glasses and a mass of hair piled on her head. She is sitting in a lawn chair and is wearing a red dress and a fluorescent green apron. A cat is is sitting on her lap and three more cats are arranged around her chair. There are plants in in the background and then all around her as if its a different world is a faded out view of sort of Medieval looking structure. There is a quote on the cover. It reads: "Splendid... Delightful... Wondrous... Silliness... A unique brand of fantasy novel" and then italics the quote is credited to Locus
A screenshot of Vellum software showing the top part of the navigation including the file name of Oddities-working and a part/section titled Some Fantasies Wander By Mistake and a word counter that shows 65,318 words
The pipe from the painting this is not a pipe but below the pipe it says: this is not a meritocracy
A photo of a plastic cup filled with half chocolate and half strawberry malt
A photo of a plastic cup filled with half chocolate and half strawberry malt
A photo of a stack of CDs in jewel cases and a book on a wood table all with Hennepin County Library barcodes. The book is You Should Come With Me Now by M. John Harrison. The CDs feature work by Burial, Frankie Knuckles, Autechre, and a collection titled Hyperdub.
Screenshot of part of an email inbox with a subject line that says "Against Compression" and an Inbox label
photo of a close up of a book cover with a “Not for Resale” banner across it and a close up photo of what looks like texture metal with light glowing off half of it and mottled blue strips with the words “Oddities” and “Fantasies & Sc” (the rest of this one is cropped out of the image)
A screenshot of the clip view of the digital audio work station Ableton Live that shows six columns with different header colors (blue, green, yellow, aqua) and cells in each column that are either gray to indicate that there's no clip in that cell or the same color as the header to indicate that there is a clip of music in that cell
A meme template with the following three lines of text: Mom, can we have Krammerchecks? No. There is Krammerchecks at Home. A Lonely Porketta at home.
homer simpson in a tux his arms spread out and his eyes closed in satisfaction
Yellow text against a cobalt blue background with a yellow rule beneath it. The text says "What is John M. Ford's Aspects" and next to it there is an H1 (heading one) tag.
The front cover of the English translation of Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project which features a black and white photo of a corridor of a Paris arcade
Cover of Futuromania, electronic machines, desiring machines, and tomorrow’s music today by Simon Reynolds, which features pink text against a vivid green background and a retro computer typefaces
A hand holding a copy of Theory of the Gimmick by Sianne Ngai
A photo of a hand holding the trade paperback edition of Gabriel Josipovici’s two works bound in one volume: the novel A Winter in Zurau (blue text against yellow in the cover) and the work of nonfiction Partita (yellow text against blue).
A photo of a carton of chicken bone broth, a bottle of clam juice, a bottle of agave sweetener, and a bottle of Sriracha
Screenshot of an email newsletter sent by Adam Roberts on November 28 with the subject “What Killed William Morris” and the subhed “It isn’t what the official account says.”
A screenshot of the DNS management in Fastmail. The left drop down is selected TXT, then there's a blank field then your domain then a blank field and then a drop down where 1 hour is selected and then an Add button.
A graphic with dark blue background at the top is a white illustration of a crown and below it the words: there is meritocracy but not for you
A screenshot of a text editor, with yellow and white text against a dark blue background. The text reads: The Tyranny of the Map: The Saint of Bright Doors and Epic Fantasy Nov. 25, 2024 DRAFT 2 {Nov. 24, 2024; 3,070 words } Note: this essay contains spoilers for The Saint of Bright Doors, including major ones related to the ending.
Photo of the front cover of a book being held by a hand. The cover reads Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgement and Capitalist Form and also incorporates a black and white photo of male-presenting arm in a white dress shirt with a silver cuff link. The hand at the end of the arm is palm up but has the fingers pointed up and together and a wisp of smoke is rising from the center point if the fingers, suggesting a magic trick. The book also has a bar code sticker on it that says Hennepin County Library.