#sonia h davis

[dunwichdumbass]

reading this shit like it’s real housewives of providence rhode island

[soniahdavis]

A little birdie told me that Sonia’s autobiography has been sent to the printers and is underway! 💜

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The First World Fantasy Awards convention was held in Providence, RI in October 1975. The rewards themselves were statuettes depicting a bust of H. P. Lovecraft by noted artist, Gahan Wilson. It occurred to me that if Sonia Greene Lovecraft Davis had lived only a few years longer- she died at age 89 - she might have been invited to the awards ceremonies to receive one of the statues for 'lifetime achievement'. Certainly her early support of the amateur fiction community and her own fiction writing efforts would have qualified for such an honor. However, the ex-Mrs Lovecraft had reasons to be bitter over her association with late husband. During the brief couple of years the pair were actually together Lovecraft was little more than a Trophy Husband. HPL contributed very little to the the family expenses and supposedly was a very cold and unenthusiastic lover. Even more egregious he had lied to Sonia about finalizing the pair's divorce papers. If Sonia had still been alive, overcome her bitterness and been healthy enough to attend the festivities I can only wonder what she might have been thinking as she held the statue of her Trophy Husband in her hands, perhaps: "What contest in hell did I win?" (With apologies to EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND, and all Lovecraft fankids the world over). (Exhibit 441)

[sullivanjsue]

Sonya while reading a book 📖

So far, I do not know this wonderful, at the same time strong and gentle woman as closely as I would like. But I am sure that thanks to the work of another wonderful woman, I will be able to do it at the end of this year

[comicwaren]

From Weapon H #004

Art by Cory Smith, Terry Pallot, Roberto Poggi, Morry Hollowell and Chris Sotomayor

Written by Greg Pak

[l2fmpnathan]

Ruth Roots

ANDREW KREPS GALLERY22 CORTLANDT ALLEYNEW YORK, NY 10013TEL (212) 741-8849FAX (212)741-8863WWW.

ANDREWKREPS.COMRUTH ROOT Born 1967, Chicago, IL. Currently lives and works in New York City.

Education2003Yaddo1994 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture1993 MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1990Brown UniversityAwards1996 National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Grant in Painting1996 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting Solo Exhibitions2019Forum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA2017356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA2016Marta Carvery Gallery, Madrid2015Old, Odd & Oval, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT Andrew Kreps Gallery, Nailery Nikolaus Ruziicka, Salzburg, Austria2014The Dartmouth Experiment, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH2011The Suburban, Oak Park, IL2009Galerie Nikolaus Ruziicka, Salzburg, Austria Maureen Paley Gallery, London2008Gallery Minmi, Tokyo2007Andrew Kreps Gallery, New Yorkdale Marta Carvery, Madrid2005Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria2004Maureen Paley Interim Art, LondonGaleria Marta Carvery, Madrid2003 Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York2001 Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York2000Galleria Franco Nero, Turin, Italy1999Andrew Kreps Gallery, New YorkMuseumExhibitions2018Inherent Structure, Wexner Centerport the Arts, Columbus, OH Surface/Depth, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY2015New York Painting, Kunst museum Bonn, Bonn, Germany2008Unique Act, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane,Dublin2007Don’t Look.

Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna’s Collection Martina Yamen, class of 1958, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA2005Extreme Abstraction, curated by Claire Schneider and Louis Gracchus, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY2004City Maps, ArtPlace, San Antonio and TX.

ANDREW KREPS GALLERY22 CORTLANDT ALLEYNEW YORK, NY 10013TEL (212) 741-8849FAX (212)741-8863WWW.ANDREWKREPS.COM2003Permanent Collection On View, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles The ContemporaryArtProject Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA2002Emotional Rescue: The ContemporaryArtProject Collection, Curated by Linda Farris, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WAS am collect –contemporary art project, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA2000Greater New York, Duplex solo installation, Curated by Klaus Eisenach and Laura Hauptman, PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York Group Exhibitions2019Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now, curated by Alex Glauber and Alex Logsdail,Lisson Gallery, New York, NY2018Twist,fused/Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA2018 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 2017Man Alive, Mariana Mercier, Brussels2016Looking Back, The 10thWhite Columns Annual –Selected by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York Life Eraser, Brand New Gallery, Milan Shapeshifters, Luring Augustine, New York The Congregation, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York 2014Les Plaisirs Démodé (The Old-Fashioned Way), Galerie Nikolaus Ruziicka, Salzburg, Austria2013Wit, The Painting Centre, New York2012To the Venetians II: Chris Martin, Matt Rich and Ruth Root, curated by Carrie Moyer and Dennis Congdon, RISD Painting Department Providence, RI2011-12The Indiscipline of Painting, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK, touring to the Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, UK2009Trail Blazers in the 21st Century, The David and Ruth Robinson Eisenberg Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ Print, Mushroom Works, Newark upon Tyne, United Kingdom2008Take Me There Show Me The Way, Haunch of Venison, New York David Reed Studio, New York Gallery Minmi, Japan2007 NE integrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York Bushels, Bundles & Barrels, Superfund Investment Centre, New York The Painting Show-Slipping Abstraction, Mead Gallery, Coventry, United Kingdom2006Untitled (for H.C. Westermann), The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI Ruth Root, Alex Brown, Cameron Martin, Sally Ross, Gallery Minmi, Tokyoite is, “what is it”, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York2005The Early Show, White Columns, New York Trade, White Columns, New York2004Painting & Sculpture, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA2003Greetings from New York: A Painting Showalterian Thaddaeus Ropak, Salzburg, Austria20thAnniversary, Welcome Home, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York2002Jump, Curated by Ross Nether, The Painting Centre, New York-Beam, Cynthia Brogan Gallery, New York Inheriting Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art, Curated by MichelleGrabner, Rocket Gallery, London Acme Gallery, Los Angeles Abstract Redux, Danes Gallery and New York.

ANDREW KREPS GALLERY22 CORTLANDT ALLEYNEW YORK, NY 10013TEL (212) 741-8849FAX (212)741-8863WWW.

ANDREWKREPS.COMState of the Gallery, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York2001The Approximative, Galerie Ghislaine Huss not, Paris Painting show, Curated by Laura Owens, Chicago Project Room, Los Angeles2000 Fuel Serve, Curated by Kenny Schachter, Kenny Schachter/Rove, New York Salty Salute, Westing Art Space, Toronto Perfidy -Exhausted Embrace, Curated by Martyn Simpson and Daniel Sturgis, Convent Sainte Marie de La Tourette, Evreux, FranceKosmobiologie, Curated by Nancy Chaykin, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, NY1999Fifteen, Deutsche Bank, Curated by Walter Robinson, New York Free Coke, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York1998Home and Away, Curated by Kirsty Bell, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York Son-of-a-Gusto, Curated by Nina Bovisa, Clementine Gallery, New York Cambio, Part 2, Curated by Kenny Schachter, Museo Universitario Del Choop, Mexico City Sassy Nuggets, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York New Museum Benefit Auction, Pierogi 2000 Portfolios, New York Superfreaks: Part II, Odyssey, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York1997Cambio, Curated by Kenny Schachter, 526 West 26th St., New York Wrong Place, Right Time, Curated by Giovanni Garcia-Fenech, Temporary Space, New York Vague Pop, Curated by Giovanni Garcia-Fenech, View room, New York1996The Experimenters, Curated by Kenny Schachter, Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, New York Taking Stock, Curated by Kenny Schachter, 25 Broad Street, New York Texas Meets New York, Curated by Kenny Schachter, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas Bump, The Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY The Death of the Death of Painting, Curated by Kenny Schachter, New York1995Lookin’ Good, Feeling’ Good, 450 Gallery, New York Eat or Be Eaten/ Painting, Not Painting, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NYX-Sightings, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY1994Crash, Thread Waxing Space, New YorkBibliography2017Gerwin, Daniel.

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Painting Overtakes Pixels in Aldrich Museum Exhibition.”

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“Review: Ruth Root, Minimal and Opulent, at Andrew Kreps Gallery, The New York Times, 2July2009James, Nicholas, “Between Painting and Sculpture,” artslant.com, 25 January 2009.

ANDREW KREPS GALLERY22 CORTLANDT ALLEYNEW YORK, NY 10013TEL (212) 741-8849FAX (212)741-8863WWW.ANDREWKREPS.COMNickas, Bob.

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The New York Observer, May 7Wehr, Anne. “Cigarette break. “Time Out New York, April 19-262000Cibulski, Dana Mouton. “New York. “Art Papers Magazine, November / December Conti, Tatiana. “Ruth Root. “Team Celeste, November Adult, Gary Michael. “Salty Salute at the West Wing Art Space.” The Globe and Mail, September 30Orange, Mark. “Greater New York.” Untitled,AutumnKino, Carol. “The Emergent Factor. “Art in America, July Hunt, David. “Symbiology. “Time Out New York, July 27Shave, Stuart. “Man Made.” idrapril Sumpter, Helen. “Ruth Root.” Hot Tickets, March Cook, Mark. “Ruth Root. “The Big Issue, March Cotter, Holland.

“New York Contemporary, Defined 150 Ways. “The New York Times, March 6Turner, Grady. “Beautiful Dreamers. “Flash Art, January-February 1999Cotter, Holland. “Ruth Root.”

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The Buffalo News, July Huntington, Richard. “Nasty at Times. “The Buffalo News, December Victor, Mathieu. “Eat or Be Eaten.” Artvoice, NovemberCatalogues2015Smith-Stewart, Amy. Ruth Root: Old, Odd, and Oval.

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Hanover, NH2005Schneider, Claire and Gracchus, Louis. Extreme Abstraction. Albright Knox Gallery. Buffalo, NY. The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Reddy Young, Tara.2002Sam Collects Contemporary Art Projects.

Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, WA2001Dailey, Meghan and Gingers, Alison M. The Approximative. Mink Ranch Productions. Paris, France2000Groom, Simon. Perfidy: Surviving Modernism.

Kettle’s Yard. Cambridge, UK1999European Galleries. Art Forum Berlin. Berlin, Germany Swenson, Susan (ed.). Pierogi Press. vol. 3, New York, NY1997Schachter, Kenny. Cambio. Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.

New York, NYLectures2001Conversations with Contemporary Artists, MoMA, New York, NY Public Collections Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and NY.

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Fantastika Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1, edited by Kerry Dodd, July 2020. Cover art by Sinjin Li, info and free download: fantastikajournal.com.

“Fantastika” – a term appropriated from a range of Slavonic languages by John Clute — embraces the genres of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror, but can also include Alternate History, Gothic, Steampunk, Young Adult Dystopic Fiction, or any other radically imaginative narrative space. The goal of Fantastika Journal and its annual conference is to bring together academics and independent researchers who share an interest in this diverse range of fields with the aim of opening up new dialogues, productive controversies and collaborations. We invite articles examining all mediums and disciplines which concern the Fantastika genres. This special issue is based off the fifth Fantastika conference — After Fantastika — which investigated how definitions of time are negotiated within Fantastika literature, exploring not only the conception of its potential rigidity but also how its prospective malleability offers an avenue through which orthodox systems of thought may be reconfigured. By interrogating the principal attributes of this concept alongside its centrality to human thought, this issue considers how Fantastika may offer an alternate lens through which to examine the past, present, and future of time itself.

EDITORIAL After Bowie: Apocalypse, Television and Worlds to Come – Andrew Tate

ARTICLES In the Ruins of Time: The Eerie in the Films of Jia Zhangke – Sarah Dodd The Time Machine and the Child: Imperialism, Utopianism, and H. G. Wells – Katie Stone “Turn[ing] dreams into reality”: Individual Autonomy and the Psychology of Sehnsucht in Two Time Travel Narratives by Alfred Bester – Molly Cobb Dystopian Surveillance and the Legacy of Cold War Experimentation in Joyce Carol Oates’s Hazards of Time Travel (2018) – Nicolas Stavris “THE ONLYES POWER IS NO POWER”: Disrupting Phallocentrism in the Post-Apocalyptic Space of Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker (1980) – Sarah France “Then when are we? It's like I'm trapped in a dream or a memory from a life long ago”: A Cognitive Analysis of Temporal Disorientation and Reorientation in the First Season of HBO’s Westworld – Zoe Wible Rewriting Myth and Genre Boundaries: Narrative Modalities in The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan – Alexander Popov

NON-FICTION REVIEWS Science Fiction Circuits of the South and East (2018) edited by Anindita Banerjee and Sonia Fritzsche – Review by Llew Watkins The Evolution of African Fantasy and Science Fiction (2018) edited by Francesca T. Barbini – Review by Esthie Hugo We Don’t Go Back: A Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror (2018) by Howard David Ingham – Review by Marita Arvaniti Witchcraft the Basics (2018) by Marion Gibson – Review by Fiona Wells-Lakeland Gaming the System: Deconstructing Video Games, Game Studies, and Virtual Worlds (2018) by David J. Gunkel – Review by Charlotte Gislam Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (2018) – Review by John Sharples Children’s Literature and Imaginative Geography (2018) by Wilfrid Laurier – Review by Chris Hussey Sleeping with the Lights on: An Unsettling Story of Horror (2018) by Darryl Jones – Review by Charlotte Gough Posthumanism in Fantastic Fiction (2018) edited by Anna edited by Anna Kérchy – Review by Beáta Gubacsi Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility (2018) by Alexis Lothian – Review by Chase Ledin The Theological Turn in Contemporary Gothic Fiction (2018) by Simon Marsden – Review by Eleanor Beal Reified Life: Speculative Capital and the Ahuman Condition (2018) by Paul J. Narkunas – Review by Peter Cullen Bryan Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar: Language and Worldview in Speculative Fiction (2018) by Louise Nuttall – Review by Rahel Oppliger None of this is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer (2018) by Benjamin J. Robertson – Review by Kerry Dodd The Last Utopians: Four Late 19th Century Visionaries and their Legacy (2018) by Michael Robertson – Review by Peter J. Maurits Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2019) edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens – Review by Juliette Harrisson Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, race, and gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2018) – Review by Polly Atkin Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought: Narratives of World Politics (2018) by Adam Stock – Review by Ben Horn

CONFERENCE REPORTS Reimagining the Gothic 2018 (October 26-27, 2018) – Conference Report by Luke Turley Transitions 8 (November 10, 2018) – Conference Report by Paul Fisher Davies Looking into the Upside Down: Investigating Stranger Things – Conference Report by Rose Butler Tales of Terror (March 21-22, 2019) – Conference Report by Oliver Rendle Glitches and Ghosts (April 17, 2019) – Conference Report by Vicki Williams Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations (May, 23-24, 2019) – Conference Report by Benjamin Miller Gothic Spectacle and Spectatorship (June, 1, 2019) – Conference Report by Brontё Schiltz Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2019 (June 6, 2019) – Conference Report by Phoenix Alexander Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin: Science, Fiction and Ethics for the Anthropocene (June 18-21, 2019) – Conference Report by Heloise Thomas Folk Horror in the 21st Century (September 5-6, 2019) – Conference Report by Miranda Corcoran

FICTION REVIEWS Modern Monsters and Occult Borderlands: William Hope Hodgson. A Review of The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson (2019) – Review by Emily Alder From the Depths. A Review of From The Depths; And Other Strange Tales of the Sea (2018) – Review by Daniel Pietersen ‘Shun the Frumious Bandersnatch!’: Charlie Brooker, Free Will and MK Ultra Walk Into A Bar. A Review of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018) – Review by Shannon Rollins The Power of the Everyday Utopia: Becky Chambers’ Record of a Spaceborn Few. A Review of Record of a Spaceborn Few (2018) – Reviewed by Ruth Booth Another Green World. A Review of A Brilliant Void: A Selection of Classic Irish Science Fiction (2019) – Reviewed by Richard Howard Burn Them All? Game of Thrones Season Eight. A Review of Game of Thrones Season Eight (2019) – Reviewed by T Evans Making New Tracks in African Fantasy. A Review of Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019) – Reviewed by Kaja Franck Impossible Creations for the Gothically Minded. A Review of The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell (2018) – Reviewed by Rachel Mizsei Ward In a Broken Dream: The Home for Wayward Children Series. A Review of Down Among the Sticks and Bones (2017), Beneath the Sugar Sky (2018) and In an Absent Dream (2019) – Reviewed by Alison Baker Blackfish City: A Place Without a Map. A Review of Blackfish City (2018) – Reviewed by Lobke Minter Diné Legend Comes to Life in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning. A Review of Trail of Lightning (2018) – Reviewed by Madelyn Marie Schoonover Aquaman; or Flash Gordon of the Sea. – A Review of Aquaman (2018) – Reviewed by Stuart Spear The Tower of Parable. A Review of The Writer’s Block (2019) – Reviewed by Timothy J. Jarvis

[ripplesofthefirmament]

"I first met him at the Boston Convention when the amateur journalists gathered there for this conclave, in 1921. I admired his personality but frankly, at first, not his person." Sonia H. Davis, "The Private Life of H.P. Lovecraft" Necronomicon Press. 1985 🖤 https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ9_6GzqrFZ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[actualblanketgremlin]

So I live in Providence and I have access to the John Hay Library (the one that all of Lovecraft’s personal library and papers was donated to after he died) and I’m starting to go through and photograph the letters and poems and things of note in general that I’ve found. If anyone is interested in specific aspects of the collection, let me know and I’ll try to get it for you! I’m putting them all in a Google Docs folder here if anyone wants to see the what I’ve got so far, but here are a couple of highlights:

Header for Weird Tales magazine c. 1925. Maybe I’m a Super Nerd, but I just love old fonts and stationary from different hotels.

Poem to A.A.S. c. 1924 (ish). “Here’s The old stuff--without much pep/ As measur’d by your zippy rep (sic),/ But warm & cordial--like clean through,/ And what (sic) a simple goof can go!” What a dork. 

On the subject of poetry, a Christmas poem to Felis (Frank Bellknap Long’s cat) c. 1924 (ish). “Little Tiger, burning bright/ With a subtle Blakeish light,/ Tell what visions have their home/ In those Eyes of flame & chrome!/ Children vex thee--thoughtless, so--/ Holding when thou wouldst away:/ What dark love is that which though,/ Spitting, mixest with thy meow?”

But honestly the highlight has got to be this scorching letter from Lovecraft’s ex-wife Sonia Greene to August Derleth. For context, Derleth was starting the Arkham House company and wanted to publish Sonia’s story (that Lovecraft revised and edited) The Invisible Monster--later The Horror At Martin’s Beach--and several highly personal letters for a whopping $600 after three years. She tried to negotiate with him and he threatened her--I’ll let her take it from here.

Transcript under the cut. 

Sept. 13, 1947

My Dear Mr. Derleth:

Your spec. del. [note: special delivery] letter was since (sic) what incomprehensible to me.

Am I to understand that letters H.P.L. had written to me subsequent to our marriage and then he wrote to me afterwards are not my own private property to do with as I choose? That I must not use them in any way I wish? I am not using material he may have written to some one else, only that which he has written to me and for me; such as my stories & poems revised by him. Do these, too, belong to you?

The use only, of The “Invisible Monster” was sold to Weird Tales. The editor, upon questioning told me himself that I may use the story, and that I may, if I wish, object to any one else using it.

But of course, if I am to interpret your veiled threats and open intimidation correctly, then I need not involve myself at all in writing “The Private Life of H.P.L. and Sonia”.

I have not spared (sic) myself anymore than any one else about whom I wrote, during the hectic period between 1921 and 1932. You cannot really mean that you wish this knowledge, through the circumstance of a technicality to be withheld!

My interpretation of your attitude, if I am correct, is that if I write the article and publish it, you will punish me. Then why should I bother for the paltry sum it would bring!

I know it is not a work of art but it states facts, facts that you lead me to tekir (sic), the world wants.

The thesis is frankly revealing and may shock and surprise the readers if they even got hold of it.

So upon consideration I shall probably destroy it and let it go at that’ just as it had been before I knew that such infor-mation was sought.

Am I likely to be threatened by destroying the story as far as it is written?! Even tho’ it is my own?

I, too, feel that the world should learn the truth, even if it is an infinitesimal part of the world that wants it.

Therefore unless you retract the intimidating parts contents of your letter I shall not go on with it at all.

Having a publisher of my own, with a well-organized sales force I felt that I might be at liberty to do what I wish with my own property.

Frankly, I have already offered the material to one W. T. Scott of the Providence Journal but I’ve retracted the offer which he had gladly accepted and offered to pay me for its use in the paper, learning the copywright to me, so that I might use it again! But all this is now in abeyance (sic).

Yours very truly

S. H. Davis.

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List for Survey of African American Literature, part 5: 1960-1979

Martin Luther King, Jr. (”Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” nonfiction; Why We Can’t Wait, nonfiction)

James Baldwin (The Fire Next Time, nonfiction; No Name in the Street, nonfiction)

William Demby (The Catacombs, novel)

Melvin Tolson (Harlem Gallery, poetry)

Malcolm X & Alex Haley (The Autobiography of Malcolm X, nonfiction)

Margaret Walker (Jubilee, novel - based on a true story)

John A. Williams (The Man Who Cried I Am, novel)

William Melvin Kelley (dem, novel)

Carlene H Polite (The Flagellants, novel)

Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice, memoir)

Gwendolyn Brooks (Riot, nonfiction)

Amiri Baraka (Four Black Revolutionary Plays)

James Alan McPherson (Hue and Cry, short stories)

Maya Angelou (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, memoir) 

Shirley Chisholm (Unbought and Unbossed, nonfiction)

Toni Morrison (The Bluest Eye, novel; Sula, novel)

Alice Walker (Meridian, novel)

Mari Evans (I Am a Black Woman, poetry)

Nikki Giovanni (Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgement, poetry)

Ernest J. Gaines (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, novel)

Ishmael Reed (Mumbo Jumbo, nonfiction)

Haki Madhubuti (Directionscore: Selected and New Poems, poetry)

Huey P. Newton (To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton, nonfiction)

Toni Cade Bambara (Gorilla, My Love, short stories)

Albert Murray (Trainwhistle Guitar, novel)

Henry Dumas (Play Ebony: Play Ivory, poetry)

Angela Davis (Joan Little: the Dialectics of Rape, nonfiction)

Gayl Jones (Corregidora, novel)

Carolyn Rodgers (How I Got Ovah: New and Selected Poems)

Ntozake Shange (For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, play/poetry)

Alex Haley (Roots, history of the author’s family in novel form)

Michael Harper (Images of Kin: New & Selected Poems)

Sonia Sanchez (I’ve Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems)

Michele Faith Wallace (Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, nonfiction)

Octavia Butler (Kindred, novel)

Here’s the list of books, compiled from a combination of Alice Walker’s recommendations and references in In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, reading lists from several universities’ African American Studies courses, and a few “Top 100″ lists of novels by Black authors. If anyone sees glaring gaps, please let me know. No hyperlinks doesn’t mean there are no free copies online; i didn’t look for them this time. A lot of these authors are still alive, and i/we can support them by buying their books or even just checking them out from libraries, so i want to promote that. Capitalism is bullshit, but authors aren’t rich (as a rule).

[themomsandthecity]

Every Baby Name We Could Possibly Think Of

Naming your baby is a big decision, and with endless options, it can also be a difficult one. Whether you're going the traditional route or want something more unique (if so, read this first!) it's helpful to have a little, or a lot, of inspiration. Ahead, you'll find nearly every baby name we could think of (close to 1,000!). These aren't just random names we found in a book or concocted ourselves - they're almost all monikers we've heard being used, or we actually know someone who goes by the name. If we missed any, tell us in the comments! A Aaliyah Aaron Abbie Abel Abigail Abraham Adalyn Adam Addilyn Addison Adelaide Adeline Adley Adora Agatha Aiden Alan Albert Aleph Alexander Alexis Ali Alma Alton Ama Amanda Amaryllis Amber Ameila Amélie Amy Anders Anderson Andrea Andrew Angie Angela Angelica Anika Anna Annalise Anne Annie Ansel Apple April Arata Archie Aria Ariane Ariel Arlee Arlo Arman Arthur Arun Arwen Arya Asha Asher Aspen Atticus Aton Aubrey Audrey August Augustus Aurora Ava Avery Axel Aziz B Bailey Barack Barbara Barney Barry Beatrice Beau Beckett Beckham Becky Ben Benedict Benjamin Bennett Bentley Bernadette Beth Bette Betty Beverly Bexley Bianca Bill Billie Bingham Bishop Bitsie Blake Blue Bobby Bodhi Bonnie Bowie Brady Braelynn Brandon Brayden Brecken Bree Brent Brenton Brett Brian Briana Briar Bridgette Brienne Brig Brigham Brinley Brio Britta Brock Brody Bronwyn Brooklyn Bruno Bryan Byron C Caden Caitlin Caity Cale Caleb Calla Calvin Camari Cameron Camilla Carena Carina Carl Carmel Carol Carrey Carter Cary Casey Caspian Cat Catherine Celine Chandler Chanel Channing Charise Charlene Charles Charlotte Chase Cher Cheri Cheriann Cheryl Chevy Chip Chloe Chris Chrissy Christian Christopher Claire Clara Clark Clary Claudia Clementine Clifford Clint Clinton Clyde Colin Collins Condoleezza Connor Conrad Constance Coolidge Cooper Cora Corban Courtney Cruz Related: 100 of the Most Beautiful Baby Names D Daisy Dale Dallas Damon Dane Danica Daniel Danielle Daphne Darby Darlene Darrel Daryl Dashiell Dave David Davina Davis Davon Dawn Dean Deanna Declan Dekel Delaney Delilah Delta Dennis Denzel Desmond Dev Devon Dexter Diane Dinah Dixie Dixon Dolores Dominique Donald Doris Dorothea Dorothy Dot Duke Duncan Dwight Dylan E Easton Ed Eden Edith Edmund Edward Effie Eleanor Elena Eli Eliana Elijah Elise Elizabeth Ella Elle Ellen Ellerie Ellie Elliott Ellis Elodie Eloise Elora Elroy Elsa Elsie Embry Emerson Emily Emma Emmett Eric Erica Esme Esmeralda Esther Ethan Ethel Eugene Evan Eve Evelyn Everett Evie Ewan Ezra F Farah Fay Felix Ferris Finn Fiona Fisher Fitz Fleur Flint Florence Floyd Flynn Ford Forrest Foster Fox Frances Frank Franklin Frederick G Gabe Gabriel Gaige Gail Gant Garrett Garth Gavin Gem Gemma Gene Genesis Gertrude George Gianna Gibson Gigi Gina Ginger Gladys Glenn Gloria Gordon Grace Grady Graham Grant Grayson Greer Gregory Griffin Grover Gus Gwen Gwyneth H Hadlee Hailey Hal Halle Hank Hannah Harding Harlow Harlyn Harold Harper Harriet Harrison Harry Hart Hartley Harvey Haven Hawk Hawthorne Hayden Hayes Hays Hazel Hector Heath Heather Helen Henley Henry Hillary Honor Holden Holly Holt Hope Hubert Hudson Hugo Humphrey Hunter Hurley Hutton Related: Based Off Last Year's Trends, These 30 Names Will Be Among the Most Popular of 2017 I Ian Ida Idris Ike Imanuel Imogen India Indy Ingrid Inizio Ireland Iris Irvin Isa Isaac Isabella Isabelle Isaiah Isla Israel Ivana Ivory J Jack Jackie Jackson Jacob Jacqueline Jaden Jaelyn Jagger Jake James Jameson Jamie Jane January Jason Jasper Jaun Jax Jaxon Jayce Jayden Jeannette Jed Jeff Jefferson Jenna Jess Jessica Jessie Jill Jillian Joan Joanna Joaquin Joe John Jones Jordan Joseph Josephine Josh Joshua Joslyn Joss Joy Joyce Judith Judy Jules Julia Julian Julie Juliet Julius June Juno Justin K Kai Kaia Kale Kalinda Kane Karah Katharine Kathryn Kate Kay Kaya Kaylee Keanu Keegan Keira Keith Kellan Kelly Kelsey Kendall Kennedy Kevin Khloe Kiah Kiele Kiera Kim Kima Kimberly Kingston Kinsley Kirk Kit Kitty Knox Krista Kristen Kurtis Kyle Kylie L Laith Lake Lana Landon Lane Larissa Larkin Laszlo Laura Lauren Lawrence Layla Leah Lee Leia Leighton Leilani Lena Lennon Leo Leonard Leslie Levi Lewis Leyona Lia Liam Liana Lida Lilith Lillian Lily Lincoln Lindsay Lionel Lisa Lisette Liz Logan Lois Lola London Loretta Lorraine Louella Louise Lucas Lucian Lucille Lucy Luke Luna Lux Lyle Lyndon Lynne Related: 100 Unusual Boy Names M Mabel Mabrey Mac Macallan Mackenzie Macy Madeleine Madelyn Madison Mae Maeby Maggie Mahershala Maia Makena Malcolm Maleeya Malia Mamie Mandy Marabelle Marcus Maren Margaret Margot Mari Maria Mariah Mariam Marilyn Marin Marion Marisole Marisse Marjorie Mark Marlene Marlon Marlowe Martha Martin Mary Mason Matilda Matthew Maui Mavis Maximus Maxson May Maya McKinley Megan Melissa Meredith Merritt Meryl Meyer Mia Michael Michelle Mika Mike Mila Mildred Miles Millie Milo Moana Molly Monica Monroe Montgomery Morgan Moses Muhammad Murray Myles N Nahall Nahla Nancy Nanette Naomie Nasima Natalie Nate Nathan Naveen Naya Neil Neisa Neo Neoma Newt Newton Niall Nicholas Nick Nico Nicole Nicolette Nigel Nile Nimah Nixon Noah Noel Nolan Nora Norma Norman North Nova O Obama Octavia Olly Olive Oliver Olivia Omar Opal Ophelia Ordell Oriana Orion Orlando Orson Orville Oscar Otis Otto Owen P Paige Paislee Paloma Pandora Paris Parker Patrick Patsy Paul Payton Pearl Peggy Penelope Penn Penny Perry Pete Peyton Phillip Phoebe Phoenix Phyllis Pierce Piper Polly Poppy Porter Posey Preston Primrose Priya Prudence Priscilla Q Quaid Quincy Quentin Quinn Quinten R Rachel Radley Rae Ralph Ramsey Rayna Rayne Reagan Rebecca Reese Reeve Reid Reign Remi Renly Rex Rhea Rhett Rhys Richard Rick Riley Ripley River Rivers Rob Robert Robin Rome Romy Ronald Ronin Rooney Roosevelt Rory Rosalind Rosalynn Rosamund Rose Rosemary Ross Rowan Roy Royce Ruby Rue Ruth Rutherford Ryan Ryder Related: 100 Unique Yet Beautiful Girls' Names S Sacha Sage Sahara Saint Sam Samuel Sandra Sandy Sansa Sarah Saul Savannah Sawyer Scarlett Schuyler Scout Sean Sebastian Selena Sena Seymour Shane Shannon Shea Shelly Sherlock Sherry Shiloh Shirley Sia Sidney Sienna Simon Skyler Sloan Sofia Solo Sonia Sophia Sophie Spencer Stacy Stanley Stella Stephanie Sterling Stetson Stuart Sue Sullivan Summer Suri Susan Sylvia T Tabitha Tad Tamera Tamsyn Tanner Tara Tate Taylor Teagan Teddy Terrance Thea Thelma Theordore Theresa Thomas Tim Tina Tinley Toby Todd Tom Tony Travis Travon Trent Trey Tricia Trinity Tripp Tristan Troy Truman Turner Tyler Tyson V Valentina Valentine Vance Vaughan Vaughn Vera Vern Victor Victoria Viggo Vince Vincent Viola Violet Virgil Vivian W Waldo Walker Wallis Walter Warren Watson Waverly Wells Wes Wesley Westley Whitney Will Willa William Willow Wilson Winter Wolfe Wren Wyatt X Xander Xavier Xeno Y Yanet Yani Yigal York Yuma Yvette Z Zachary Zahir Zander Zane Zaylee Zayn Zion Zoe Zola Zooey Zora Zuma Zuri Related: These Are the Most Popular Baby Names of 2016 http://bit.ly/2kR9iwY

[dunwichdumbass]

Today your miserly grandpa was admittedly somewhat befuddled by a strange and whimsical occurrence which took place on the oft-criticized - albeit oft-lauded by those of us foolish enough to frequent its hallowed halls - website of Tumblr.com. Logging on this dreary morning with all the aplomb of a great old shoggoth beset with tuberculosis, I found what else but that which appeared to be a small colorless and irregular oval with a greenish screen affixed to its surface, and, if you’ll excuse my disdain, the word “boop-o-meter” carved in bas-relief in a typeface much too small for even the most tenacious of readers to even dream of reading with any reliable clarity. Within that greenish, glowing screen which seemed to taunt me with all the patience of some great cat hiding under the cover of the jungle canopy, were titles which seemed to denote categories including “given”, “received”, and “global”, all of the values for which were notably zed. I must say I found all this rather perplexing, and I was too set in my ways - as you know - to give much thought to this new and strange development on my dash, and as such it was not until much later, and by much later I mean tonight when SH sent her first BOOP that I realized that this “boop-o-meter” was a means of cataloguing good natured and playful smacks reminiscent of the soft yet firm whacks that a creature of the felid variety might deliver to one of their own, or nay, to one of us! Indeed, since SH’s initial BOOP, I myself have sent a good 200 to Klarkash-Ton, Loveman, Barlow, and the rest of them. It has been a truly good day by all accounts, and I should hope that your boop day has been just as satisfactory.

Yours most sincerely,

HP Lovecraft

[soniahdavis]

A “white-collar” man or woman who tries to imitate some of the Hollywood stars, or a more affluent person tries to follow the fashion of nobility or royalty indicates poor taste."

— Sonia H. Davis, in her essay, "The Road to Culture".

[hplovecraftmuseum]

THE IDES OF MARCH. March 15, 44 BC. Julius Caesar is assassinated. March 15, 1937. H. P. Lovecraft dies. March 28, 1904. Whipple Van Buren Phillips - Lovecraft's grandfather, and the most important male figure in his life, dies. March 22 - April 2, 1925, Great Cthulhu rises and then sinks once more with his cosmic city into the Pacific Ocean. March 16, 1883, Sonia Haft Green Lovecraft Davis is born. March 3, 1924 Lovecraft and Sonia Green were married in NYC. The joining would fail miserably and their unofficial divorce would prove a massive embarrassment for HPL. March 14, 1869, Algernon Blackwood was born. Blackwood's tale, THE WILLOWS, would be called by Lovecraft, "The greatest supernatural story ever written in the English Language. March 1931, Lovecraft would finish writing, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, perhaps the most ambitious story he ever created. 'Mts' would be serialized in the Feb. Mar. April, issues of ASTOUNDING STORIES. Lovecraft's story as it appeared there was so abridged and filled with typos that he did not consider it legitimately published. March 19, 1902. Florence Carol Weld - Lovecraft's step daughter with Sonia Greene is born. Sonia's grown daughter from a previous marriage (her birth-father had died) met Lovecraft briefly. Apparently neither cared for the other. March 26, 2019, Wilum 'Hop Frog' Pugmire, long time Lovecraft fan, author and beloved personality within the fantasy/ horror underground dies. The Ides of March. I include these dates and personalities merely as examples of coincidence. In his letters to August Derleth, Lovecraft lectured the younger writer on the mistake of giving coincidence any sort of significance other than pure chance. (Exhibit 282)

[comicwaren]

From Weapon H #003

Art by Cory Smith, Morry Hollowell and Rachelle Rosenberg

Written by Greg Pak

[weirdletter]

Ave • atque • Vale: Reminiscences of H.P. Lovecraft, edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, Necronomicon Press, 2018. Trade paperback and limite edition hardcover, info: necropress.com.

H.P. Lovecraft was one of the most beloved individuals of his era, and many friends, colleagues, and correspondents wrote memoirs of their association with him. This volume, one of the most exhaustive collection of Lovecraft memoirs ever published, gathers together some of the best-known accounts of Lovecraft the man and writer, including W. Paul Cook’s classic In Memoriam: Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1941) and Sonia H. Davis’s The Private Life of H.P. Lovecraft, a moving discussion of her marriage to the Providence writer. Members of the celebrated Kalem Club (Frank Belknap Long, Rheinhart Kleiner, Samuel Loveman, James F. Morton) add their assessments, while such neighbors as Harold W. Munro (Lovecraft’s classmate at Hope Street High School), Clara Hess, and Muriel Eddy offer unique glimpses of Lovecraft’s life in Providence. As Lovecraft became a titan in the world of pulp fiction, such colleagues as Donald Wandrei, E. Hoffmann Price, and H. Warner Munn recounted their recollections. Late in life, Lovecraft became a mentor for a cadre of young fans and writers who were spearheading the fantasy fandom movement, and many of them—R. H. Barlow, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Kenneth Sterling, and others—told of their memories of the dreamer from Providence. Ave atque Vale has been meticulously edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, two of the leading authorities on Lovecraft. They have supplied biographical information on the various authors and annotated each essay thoroughly to explain obscure references and to correct errors. This book will be an invaluable contribution to the study of H.P. Lovecraft.

Contents: Introduction   I. Some Overviews Ave atque Vale! by Edward H. Cole A Few Memories by James F. Morton In Memoriam: Howard Phillips Lovecraft—Recollections, Appreciations, Estimates by W. Paul Cook Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Samuel Loveman Some Random Memories of H.P.L. by Frank Belknap Long A Memoir of Lovecraft by Rheinhart Kleiner The Normal Lovecraft: A Memoir to Restore Balance to the Shade of a Man of Delightful Character by Wilfred B. Talman The Private Life of H.P. Lovecraft by Sonia H. Davis Memories of Lovecraft by Sonia H. Davis Amateur Affairs by Hyman Bradofsky   II. Childhood and Early Adulthood (1890–1922) Lovecraft, My Childhood Friend by Harold W. Munro Letter to Winfield Townley Scott by Clara Hess Little Journeys to the Homes of Prominent Amateurs by Andrew Francis Lockhart Young Man Lovecraft by L. Sprague de Camp From “Further Recollections of Amateur Journalism” by Arthur Goodenough Lovecraft Was My Mentor by Horace L. Lawson 20 Webster Street by George Julian Houtain Howard Phillips Lovecraft: The Sage of Providence by Maurice W. Moe A Tribute from the Past by Ira A. Cole Discourse on H. P. Lovecraft by Rheinhart Kleiner Memories of a Friendship by Alfred Galpin I Met Lovecraft by Paul Livingston Keil   III. Early Professional Career (1923–1930) Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Muriel E. Eddy The Man Who Came at Midnight by Ruth M. Eddy The Kalem Letters by George Kirk Bards and Bibliophiles by Rheinhart Kleiner Lovecraft as a Conversationalist by Samuel Loveman Recollections of H. P. Lovecraft by Vrest Orton H.P. Lovecraft: A Pupil’s View by Zealia Bishop Lovecraft in Providence by Donald Wandrei H.P.L.: A Reminiscence by H. Warner Munn One Day in the Life of H. P. Lovecraft by Frank Belknap Long   IV. Later Years (1931–1937) An Interview with Harry K. Brobst by Will Murray The Sage of College Street Howard Phillips Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft the Man by E. Hoffmann Price Idiosyncrasies of H.P.L. by Ernest A. Edkins Some Memories of H.P.L. by Helen V. Sully Three Hours with H.P. Lovecraft by Dorothy C. Walter [Memories of HPL (1934)] The Wind That Is in the Grass: A Memoir of H.P. Lovecraft in Florida by Robert H. Barlow Letter to Fantasy Commentator by Robert Bloch H.P. Lovecraft as I Knew Him by Duane W. Rimel Caverns Measureless to Man by Kenneth Sterling Interlude with Lovecraft by Stuart M. Boland Lovecraft’s First Book by William L. Crawford My Correspondence with Lovecraft by Fritz Leiber Miscellaneous Impressions of H.P.L. by Marian F. Bonner A Glimpse of H.P.L. by Mary V. Dana The Last of H.P. Lovecraft by John B. Michel   V. Brief Tributes Howard P. Lovecraft [1890–1937] by Walter J. Coates From “More Regrettable Passings” by Arthur Harris Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Charles W. Smith O Artemidorus, Farewell! by Ernest A. Edkins From Maurice Moe’s Son by Donald J. Moe A Walk in the Field by George W. Macauley Letter to Weird Tales by Hazel Heald Letter to Weird Tales by Robert Bloch In Memoriam: H. P. Lovecraft Letter to Weird Tales Letter to Science-Fiction Critic by Clark Ashton Smith Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Donald A. Wollheim A Tribute to Lovecraft by Robert W. Lowndes The Genius of Lovecraft by Henry George Weiss (Francis Flagg)   VI. Poetic Tributes Elegy in Spring by August Derleth To H.P.L. by Samuel Loveman To Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Clark Ashton Smith Biographical Notes Bibliography Index