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Blood Related by William Cook - available now

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Modernism, The Waste Land, & Spiritualism

§ I. In T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), a society decays while humanity turns upon itself in the name of industry. Even that most rudimentary characteristic of human nature and existence, sexual love, is reduced to a type of capitalist transaction of   ‘automated’ experience.   It is a lasting impression of humanity at its lowest and most fallible point. However, despite Eliot’s reactionary portrayal of the spiritual and cultural death of western society, The Waste Land is not without hope or redemption. Indeed, in the knowledge that the text itself will generate wisdom, through the process of understanding and interpretation, there is a certain degree of optimism present. Modernism (particularly Modernist writing) was essentially a search for absolutes, or fundamental truths, about human existence and experience. Art (with a capital ‘a’) was the idealized domain for this aggressive hunt; aesthetic autonomy, however, was far f...

Meet Suzanne Robb -

Suzanne Robb Suzanne Robb is the author of Z-Boat , a zombie novel of a different kind published by Twisted Library Press. The zombies are smart, strong, and come from the least likely source. She is currently working on several projects, including a non-fiction collection for Hidden Thoughts Press on Anxiety Disorders, and an apocalyptic fiction collection for Wicked East Press. Suzanne also has over fifty short stories in current and upcoming anthologies with publishers such as Coscom Entertainment, Post Mortem Press, Library of the Living Dead, Wicked East Press, Norgus Press, Collaboration of the Dead, Living Dead Press, Open Casket Press, Hidden Thoughts Press, Pill Hill Press, May December Publications, Rhymfire - Ebooks, Static Movement, Cruentis Libri, and Panic Press. I first met Suzanne by way of her interesting blog,  Ramblings of an Anxiety Ridden Mind . Be sure to stop by and check it out, there's always something going on there. I have just bo...

Book Cover revealed - 'Blood Related'

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