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The Three Ages of D.F. Lewis
0. 1948-1985 — Poems / Zeroist Group (1960s), The Visitor (Novel) 1973, Agra Aska (novella) 1983.
1. 1986-2000 – Over 1000 fiction publications in magazines and anthologies, some selected for the Prime Books D.F. Lewis collection ‘Weirdmonger’ (2003). Work once in Stand, Iron, Panurge, Orbis, London Magazine….
I was awarded the BFS Karl Edward Wagner Award.
2. 2001-2010 – Publishing multi-authored ‘Nemonymous’.
3. 2008-
GESTALT REAL-TIME REVIEWING (www.nemonymous.com),
Plus one novel NEMONYMOUS NIGHT (Chômu Press), a story collection and two novellas entitled THE LAST BALCONY (InkerMen Press), and a novella entitled Weirdtongue (InkerMen Press), and my reprint of Agra Aska that was originally published in 1998 by Scorpion Press,
Plus three originally created multi-authored anthologies that I published,
Plus two books from Mount Abraxas Press, and an Eibonvale chapbook called The Big Headed People. And a book collection from Eibonvale: DABBLING WITH DIABELLI,
Plus, in July 2020, a past story selected for THE BIG BOOK OF MODERN FANTASY edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.
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THE LAST BALCONY: HERE
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After many satisfying years of gestalt real-time reviewing, it now feels really special to see one of my own old stories showcased here!
My detailed review of this Big Book: HERE
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The Ha of Ha above.
Late Labelling:
See comments here:
https://rosannerabinowitz.wordpress.com/2018/05/31/resonance-revolt-real-time-reviews-and-some-rugelach-too/
Some kind comments about my reviews.
Gwendolyn Kiste’s Facebook: HERE
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/06/04/recent-quotes-about-my-reviews/
CODY GOODFELLOW
We’ve never met, but I cherish your reviews as spiky reminders that what we’re attempting is not just worth doing, but little short of sorcery. Cheers!
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Kudos to Des Lewis, for his x-ray vision and for breathing new life into the review.
Douglas Thompson today –
“Des Lewis has just finished realtime-reviewing my collection The Fallen West, and what a perceptive and sympathetic reader and critic he is. The way I feel reminds me of the closing paragraph of The Circular Ruins by Borges in which the narrator realises he cannot be destroyed by flames because “another man is dreaming him…”
“Des Lewis, your reviews are works of art. I learn a lot about myself when you read me!”
== David Mathew HERE
i love this review! and this book! i’m so glad you two encountered one another. (kerry’s first book, the black country, is also completely brilliant. and des’ recent collection, the big-headed people, is amazing.)
what an absolute privilege to read the book and then ‘read’ it again through someone else’s perceptions and responses. it’s amazing as a writer to be read that way, but as a fellow reader it’s also a unique and valuable thing.
—-Georgina Bruce HERE
This Des Lewis review must be the best a writer can receive. 1) It is generous well-beyond my personal capacity for generosity, complete with comparisons to Proust. But 2) It finds codes and complexities in the book that I had not been aware of myself, proving Bad Donald Barthelme was right when he spilled the beans and admitted that an author “is a sort of lightning rod for an accumulation of atmospheric disturbances, a St. Sebastian absorbing in his tattered breast the arrows of the Zeitgeist.” Who knew that’s what my tattered breast had been absorbing all these difficult years, the Zeitgeist. [Scroll Down for the Real Time Review]
— Mike Sauve on Facebook today,
Des, I can’t thank you enough for all these exotically penetrating insights… a joy to read and ponder. Makes this lonely craft almost worthwhile.
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/the-fallen-west-douglas-thompson/#comment-14170
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“That incomparable cowboy Des Lewis continues to ride herd across the landscape of dark fiction, managing to simultaneously both corral and free the stories he reads.” – Eric Schaller
Des, after publishing a millenium’s worth of surrealistic short stories, has reconfigured the way we interact with fiction, first through his editorship of Nemonymous and most recently through his gestalt real-time book reviews. I’m sure, by now, that the weight of words he has committed to reviewing the field would be enough to sink heaven or raise hell, should anyone be foolish enough to corral their energies and attempt that task.
— Eric Schaller
Des reviewing one of one’s books is one of the most fascinating things I’ve ever experienced.
— David Mathew
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Part 7 of these comments continued here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/17630-2/