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laconic writer website and blog for writer robert freeman wexler skip to content laconic writer website and blog for writer robert freeman wexler menu search publications the silverberg business silverberg business reviews and interviews silverberg visuals silverberg extract undiscovered territories stories reviews undiscovered territories the painting and the city reviews the painting and the city circus of the grand design reviews circus of the grand design articles interviews about search for search locus recommended reading on february 12 2023 february 12 2023 by robert freeman wexler in uncategorized 1 comment every year locus magazine posts their recommended reading list plus year end summaries by various reviewers and others the list is here the silverberg business is on it which is very pleasing graham sleight in his summary says the silverberg business by robert freeman wexler small beer was a striking surprise a bizarre fantasy of the 19th century american west that stayed with me like a dream he also put it on a list of his top ten books of the year ian mond who s september review has already been linked on this page says wexler s book is possibly the most original work i read all year surreal books of southwestern gothic horror on december 30 2022 by robert freeman wexler in books the silverberg business 2 comments article by sam reader for the tor nightfire blog and including books by joe r lansdale stephen graham jones and the silverberg business wexler uses the history of texas in particular the 1900 galveston flood and a series of repeated images and motifs to build his own original mythos one where the eldritch forces of chaos and decay attempt shady land grabs and the wrong door can send you into a bizarre alternate dimension i haven t read any of these other books but will get started soon the article is here endless bookshelf review on december 13 2022 by robert freeman wexler in books reviews the silverberg business leave a comment the endless bookshelf is a blog by writer publisher antiquarian book dealer henry wessells he has written an in depth and very favorable review of the silverberg business and named it the endless bookshelf book of the year locus review 1 on october 4 2022 by robert freeman wexler in books reviews the silverberg business leave a comment photo of my publisher s copy of the issue gary k wolf s review of the silverberg business from the august issue of locus magazine is now online locus is a combination trade journal and fanzine for the fantasy horror science fiction community it presents publishing industry news personal items convention reports book and magazine reviews lengthy interviews etc i renewed my subscription a couple of years ago after letting it lapse for many years even without a subscription i was able to read reviews online book reviews run in the monthly print or e book edition and later are added to their website for free at first i subscribed to the print edition but switched to e book print is more convenient for me a non smart phone non e reading device person but i would rather not have all the paper piles i hadn t realized until recently that the magazine is having difficulties the editor liza groen trombi explains the situation in more detail than i can here in her editorials from july and august if you go to the locus website to read the occasional review or obituary consider making the occasional contribution to help keep the place going below are quotes from one of trombi s editorials with more information on how to help if you have the means please consider making a charitable contribution to locus this year whether a one time or monthly contribution we really want to keep making the magazine and we are under the gun right now we also have a locus legacy society for people who would like to name locus science fiction foundation in their will you can find out more information about that on our donate page subscribe or renew your subscription today please consider donating to the locus science fiction foundation a 501 c 3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion and preservation of science fiction fantasy and horror donations support locus magazine as well as a variety of related sfnal projects for more information and to make donations through paypal please visit our website new review podcast interview on september 17 2022 by robert freeman wexler in books the silverberg business writing leave a comment display window book cellar chicago new review of the silverberg business along with a podcast interview conducted by rick kleffel silverberg houston texas and an interview on september 6 2022 september 6 2022 by robert freeman wexler in food life the silverberg business writing leave a comment old sign from trail behind the building new interview up here while i was in houston for my reading at brazos bookstore i went to my old neighborhood the house i grew up in was demolished and replaced with a big ugly thing sometime in the last ten years i knew that so no shock fortunately three brothers bakery is still where it has been since 1960 on the banks of braes bayou in southwest houston front the brothers sigmund sol and max survived the holocaust and opened their bakery in 1949 in a different location at their current building they have survived multiple floods fire covid lockdowns and losing their kosher license bathroom wall history an article about how they re doing appeared in the houston chronicle a few days before my trip i only had time for one visit and a coconut custard danish i had meant to go back the next morning but ran out of time book release day on august 23 2022 by robert freeman wexler in books the silverberg business 2 comments it s out the first thing i did today is remove the pre from order on the book page next i ll eat breakfast tonight reading at the headquarters box opened arthur machen s the chronicle of clemendy on august 22 2022 by robert freeman wexler in art books the silverberg business writing leave a comment rubrican s first tale facsimile edition of 35 numbered and signed prints 11 5 x 8 25 on heavy acid free paper available from yard dog along with other prints from the edition tomorrow august 23 2022 is the official release day of the silverberg business today i m writing about some of the book s interconnected underpinnings my main character is a jewish detective named shannon family name originally chanun americanized by immigration he s from galveston texas and lives and works in chicago illinois most of the book takes place in texas allan pinkerton founded the pinkerton national detective agency in chicago in the 1850s i chose chicago as shannon s home and made shannon s boss a former pinkerton agent the writer dashiell hammet worked for a time as a pinkerton agent i used hammet s continental op character as a base when i began formulating shannon i love the weird fiction writing of welsh author arthur llewellyn jones who wrote as arthur machen i decided to name shannon s boss arthur llewellyn scottish born pinkerton was a chartist before reading about pinkerton i hadn t known about chartism which was a working class political reform movement in britain from around 1838 to 1857 in 1839 the newport rising occurred in newport wales police arrested chartists protests followed soldiers shot miners this is an oversimplification for more information on the newport rising please look elsewhere including the book listed a few paragraphs down i decided that my llewellyn was a former chartist who moved to the u s after the uprising as fellow chartists it would make sense for him to have worked with pinkerton jon langford is welsh from newport and lives in chicago his skull head art was one of the formative elements for the novel and he created the silverberg cover art bringing more elements together three impostors a small publisher based in newport wales has been publishing special illustrated editions of arthur machen s work in march 2022 they released the chronicle of clemendy first published in 1888 with ten illustrations by langford lovely editions of many machen books are also available from tartarus press three imposters also published a book render the chartists defenceless john frost s voyage with dr mckechnie to van diemen s land in 1840 by les james about the transportation to tasmania of the leaders of the 1839 newport rising is it coincidence that the chronicle of clemendy came out the year that the silverberg business is set i doubt it reading schedule on august 17 2022 december 9 2022 by robert freeman wexler in books the silverberg business 2 comments here are the happenings for the silverberg business ohio texas and illinois emporium reading august 2021 books by the banks saturday november 19 cincinnati oh i ll be there at a table 10 4 with a break for a panel at 1pm with roger collins jay kalagayan christopher rowe and laura maylene walter free admission past events august 23 8pm two dollar radio headquarters columbus oh reading with jeffrey ford august 27 7pm emporium wines underdog cafe yellow springs oh reading and conversation with rebecca kuder august 29 7pm joseph beth books cincinnati oh reading and conversation with rebecca kuder august 30 7pm book people austin tx august 31 6 30pm brazos books houston tx september 13 7pm book cellar chicago il with jon langford october 13th 6pm yellow springs library yellow springs oh with guitar accompaniment by brady burkett of stark folk band audio of me reading with victor lavalle at kgb nyc april 20 2022 novel gets a name on august 6 2022 by robert freeman wexler in books the silverberg business leave a comment i figured out the title early on borrowing from dashiell hammett s story this king business but who s business would it be the answer to that came from the story and the name of the character for whom shannon is searching gary k wolfe who reviewed the silverberg business in the august issue of locus magazine said probably the first thing sff readers need to know about robert freeman wexler s the silverberg business is that it has nothing to do with any legendary grand masters of the field this is true in that the content of the novel has nothing to do with robert silverberg however it also does during my senior year of high school we had to take various placement tests for college apparently i did well enough to place out of my first college english class the first semester of my freshman year i took the class required for students who had placed out of first semester english the only thing i remember from the class was the week that the teaching assistant took over he assigned us a paper story in which we introduce a new character at the time i was reading robert silverberg s novel lord valentine s castle serialized in fantasy and science fiction magazine in the current issue probably the one shown here from december 1979 silverberg introduced a new character i realized i could study how he did it to help me write my piece for the class this was when i discovered that writers learn from studying and copying other writers i ve been copying ever since i don t remember the name of the teaching assistant he must have been a creative writing graduate student as a freshman i didn t know there was such a thing whoever you are thanks for the assignment i didn t know how important it would be posts navigation older posts ocean life james m sommerville pages publications the silverberg business silverberg business reviews and interviews silverberg visuals silverberg extract undiscovered territories stories reviews undiscovered territories the painting and the city reviews the painting and the city circus of the grand design reviews circus of the grand design articles interviews about links aqueduct press big boys brendan connell chris roberts clarion west david herter infinity plus jeffrey ford jon langford art at yard dog kaaron warren kelly link m john harrison mark rich marly 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