As mentioned previously this weekend sees Dennis Cooper's blog hosting my Day devoted to HARLEM SMOKE. For those interested, I spend a bit of time (okay, maybe a little more than a bit of time) discussing how I came up with the idea and the writing process behind the book, what inspired the novel, notes on the soundtrack, plus lots of photographs from the city of Providence (many taken by me) depicting some of the real-life locations that appear in the book.
Hopefully this is the last general update I'll need to do for the time being as I'm getting sick of typing those two words 'Harlem Smoke!'
https://denniscooperblog.com/please-welcome-to-the-world-james-champagne-harlem-smoke-snuggly-books/?fbclid=IwAR2iF_KSHQqDsdp9Iycc-uChDP6hB26omR3TePHuYE2HfoqLf4FsNrLqqK0
Saturday, January 19, 2019
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
HARLEM SMOKE now out
So today's the official release date for my novel HARLEM SMOKE. As you can imagine it may be purchased through most of the usual channels (Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and what have you). Soon you should be able to purchase it off the Snuggly site itself, which will be the way to go if you want to get a hardcover copy.
I'm aware that $24 seems like a lot to pay for a trade paperback, but in all fairness at nearly 400 pages it's not exactly a short novel! Anyway, if you're interested in (or are looking for a gift for someone who might be interested in) Lovecraftian horror, Thomas Harris-esque police procedurals, Providence antiquarian architecture, or are just looking for a book that features scenes depicting attractive homosexuals having long and pretentious coffee house conversations touching on Nietzsche, Gnosticism, Pessimism, and the occult connection between Ray Brassier's Transcendental Nihilism and Kim Kardashian's Alpha-Narcissism, well, then this might be the kind of book that captures your fancy.
I know there are some writers who pay close attention to the people reading their books and afterwards contact the reader to try to persuade them to post reviews on Goodreads or Amazon or wherever. I don't want to be that guy so I'll just say here that if you like it and feel the urge to post a review somewhere, great, you have my sincere thanks (really, positive or negative reviews, I don't care, so long as it's being reviewed period and that people are talking about it!).
I'll post a reminder on the day itself, but this coming weekend Dennis Cooper's blog will be hosting a day devoted to the book, which might be of interest to some.
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
2018 Reading List Monthly Update: December (Finale)
Books read in December of 2018:
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"The Dinosaur Tourist" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 12-3-18
"Misty Thule" (Adolphe Retté) 12-4-18
"The Prince and the Dressmaker" (Jen Wang) 12-6-18
"R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)" (Karel Čapek) 12-7-18
"Dr. Black and the Guerrillia" (Brendan Connell) 12-8-18
"The Frolic of the Beasts" (Yukio Mishima) 12-15-18
"The Double Star and Other Occult Fantasies" (Jane de la Vaudère) 12-17-18
"Klaus" (Grant Morrison) 12-17-18 *
"Klaus: The New Adventures of Santa Claus" (Grant Morrison) 12-18-18
"GuRu" (RuPaul) 12-19-18
"Curious Births to Light the Universe" (Brendan Connell) 12-19-18
"Santa's Snow Cat" (Sue Stainton) 12-20-18 *
"Santa's Snow Kitten" (Sue Stainton) 12-20-18 *
"The Legend of Mistletoe and the Christmas Kittens" (Joe Troiano) 12-20-18 *
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2018 Reading List Total:
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1. "Tomie" (Junji Ito) 1-2-18
2. "Call Me by Your Name" (André Aciman) 1-4-18
3. "The Prozess Manifestations" (Mark Samuels) 1-11-18
4. "The Red Book: Liber Novus: A Reader's Edition" (C.G. Jung) 1-12-18
5. "The Soft Machine: The Restored Text" (William S. Burroughs) 1-16-18 +
6. "Injection: Volume 3" (Warren Ellis) 1-18-18
7. "The Largesse of the Sea Maiden" (Denis Johnson) 1-20-18
8. "Ornaments in Jade" (Arthur Machen) 1-21-18
9. "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror" (Robert Louis Stevenson) 1-28-18
10. "The Overnight" (Ramsey Campbell) 1-30-18
11. "Dragon's Crown Volume 1" (Yuztan) 2-3-18
12. "You Shall Never Know Security" (J.R. Hamantaschen) 2-5-18
13. "The Lord Came At Twilight" (Daniel Mills) 2-6-18
14. "The Night Ocean" (Robert H. Barlow/H.P. Lovecraft) 2-8-18
15. "Stupid Baby" (New Juche) 2-9-18
16. "Daughters of Apostasy" (Damian Murphy) 2-14-18
17. "Drowning in Beauty: the Neo-Decadent Anthology" (Various: edited by Justin Isis/Daniel Corrick) 2-18-18
18. "Mountainhead" (New Juche) 2-28-18
19. "Drifting" (J.-K. Huysmans) 3-5-18 +
20. "The Egg: Stories" (Michael Gira) 3-7-18
21. "The Runes of the Earth" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 3-9-18
22. "When People Die/Instagram Haikus" (Thomas Moore) 3-11-18
23. "Super Sons Vol. 2: Planet of the Capes" (Peter J. Tomasi) 3-14-18
24. "Speak No Evil" (Uzodinma Iweala) 3-15-18
25. "The Ammonite Violin & Others" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 3-19-18
26. "Nova Express: The Restored Text" (William S. Burroughs) 3-21-18 +
27. "Less Than Zero" (Bret Easton Ellis) 3-24-18 *
28. "The Rules of Attraction" (Bret Easton Ellis) 4-4-18 *
29. "The Divine Comedy" (Dante Alighieri- Lawrence Grant White translation) 4-6-18
30. "Scum" (Alex Binnie) 4-7-18
31. "The Cursed Soldier" (Tom Champagne) 4-7-18
32. "Down From" (Ursula Pflug) 4-12-18
33. "American Psycho" (Bret Easton Ellis) 4-19-18
34. "N" (Arthur Machen) 4-21-18 +
35. "The Constructionists" (Joanna Tova Price) 4-26-18
36. "The Informers" (Bret Easton Ellis) 5-1-18 *
37. "The Seekers" (Gea Philes) 5-5-18
38. "Glamorama" (Bret Easton Ellis) 5-17-18 *
39. "The House With a Clock in Its Walls" (John Bellairs) 5-19-18
40. "Imperial Bedrooms" (Bret Easton Ellis) 5-21-18 *
41. "The Heel" (Brendan Connell) 5-26-18
42. "Zac's Coral Reef" (Dennis Cooper) 5-29-18
43. "Decadence and Symbolism: A Showcase Anthology" (Various; translated by Brian Stableford) 6-4-18
44. "The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text" (William S. Burroughs) 6-13-18 +
45. "Aiaigasa" (Quentin S. Crisp) 6-14-18
46. "The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn" (John Bellairs) 6-17-18 *
47. "Civil War" (Simon Morris) 6-20-18
48. "Personal Ads" (No Authors Identified) 6-21-18
49. "The Mansion in the Mist" (John Bellairs) 6-28-18
50. "What is Anything? Memoirs of a Life in Lovecraft" (S.T. Joshi) 7-4-18
51. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (Douglas Adams) 7-5-18
52. "To Charles Fort, With Love" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 7-13-18
53. "Prophecies and Dooms" (Mark Samuels) 7-18-18
54. "The Undiscovered Self" (C.G. Jung) 7-19-18
55. "Already Dead" (Denis Johnson) 7-23-18
56. "Knapsacks" (J.-K. Huysmans) 7-24-18
57. "Catwings" (Ursula K. Le Guin) 7-25-18 *
58. "Studies of Death" (Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock) 7-25-18
59. "Pleasant Tales II" (Justin Isis) 7-27-18
60. "Lilith's Legacy: Prose Poems and Short Stories" (Renée Vivien) 8-14-18
61. "Tales of Mystery & Imagination" (Edgar Allan Poe) 8-8-18
62. "The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins" (Clint McElroy/Carey Pietsch) 8-10-18
63. "Crampton" (Thomas Ligotti/Brandon Trenz) 8-16-18
64. "The Star of Gnosia" (Damian Murphy) 8-18-18
65. "The House on the Borderland" (William Hope Hodgson)
66. "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (James Baldwin)
67. "The Rimini-Ferrara Line" (Brendan Connell) 8-31-18
68. "The Secret Agent" (Joseph Conrad) 9-10-18
69. "Locus Solus" (Raymond Roussel) 9-13-18
70. "Marty Page" (Martin Bladh) 9-14-18
71. "Specialist Fabricator" (Gary Mundy) 9-15-18
72. "Missing" (Josh Peterson) 9-16-18
73. "Fatal Revenant" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 9-21-18
74. "Garfield Completed Works: Volume 1: 1978 & 1979" (Jim Davis) 9-22-18
75. "Alice Through the Needle's Eye" (Gilbert Adair) 10-4-18
76. "Bosun" (New Juche) 10-7-18
77. "Against All Things Ending" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 10-16-18
78. "Errant Vice" (Jean Lorrain) 10-18-18
79. "Frankenstein" (Junji Ito) 10-20-18
80. "Happy Days" (Jason Williamson) 10-24-18
81. "Small Talk at the Clinic" (Thomas Moore/Steven Purtill) 10-25-18
82. "The Way of the Worm" (Ramsey Campbell) 10-31-18
83. "Destroy All Monsters" (Jeff Jackson) 11-4-18
84. "Mercury's Choice" (Kyler James) 11-13-18
85. "The Last Dark" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 11-18-18
86. "Unofficial History of Pi Wei" (Brendan Connell) 11-21-18
87. "Witches in Dreamland" (David Barker/W.H. Pugmire) 11-30-18
88. "The Dinosaur Tourist" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 12-3-18
89. "Misty Thule" (Adolphe Retté) 12-4-18
90. "The Prince and the Dressmaker" (Jen Wang) 12-6-18
91. "R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)" (Karel Čapek) 12-7-18
92. "Dr. Black and the Guerrillia" (Brendan Connell) 12-8-18
93. "The Frolic of the Beasts" (Yukio Mishima) 12-15-18
94. "The Double Star and Other Occult Fantasies" (Jane de la Vaudère) 12-17-18
95. "Klaus" (Grant Morrison) 12-17-18 *
96. "Klaus: The New Adventures of Santa Claus" (Grant Morrison) 12-18-18
97. "GuRu" (RuPaul) 12-19-18
98. "Curious Births to Light the Universe" (Brendan Connell) 12-19-18
99. "Santa's Snow Cat" (Sue Stainton) 12-20-18 *
100. "Santa's Snow Kitten" (Sue Stainton) 12-20-18 *
101. "The Legend of Mistletoe and the Christmas Kittens" (Joe Troiano) 12-20-18 *
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*= book I have read at least once in the past
+= book I have read before, but not this reprint/edition/translation
Currently Reading:
"Fascination" (Kevin Killian)
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"The Dinosaur Tourist" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 12-3-18
"Misty Thule" (Adolphe Retté) 12-4-18
"The Prince and the Dressmaker" (Jen Wang) 12-6-18
"R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)" (Karel Čapek) 12-7-18
"Dr. Black and the Guerrillia" (Brendan Connell) 12-8-18
"The Frolic of the Beasts" (Yukio Mishima) 12-15-18
"The Double Star and Other Occult Fantasies" (Jane de la Vaudère) 12-17-18
"Klaus" (Grant Morrison) 12-17-18 *
"Klaus: The New Adventures of Santa Claus" (Grant Morrison) 12-18-18
"GuRu" (RuPaul) 12-19-18
"Curious Births to Light the Universe" (Brendan Connell) 12-19-18
"Santa's Snow Cat" (Sue Stainton) 12-20-18 *
"Santa's Snow Kitten" (Sue Stainton) 12-20-18 *
"The Legend of Mistletoe and the Christmas Kittens" (Joe Troiano) 12-20-18 *
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2018 Reading List Total:
-
1. "Tomie" (Junji Ito) 1-2-18
2. "Call Me by Your Name" (André Aciman) 1-4-18
3. "The Prozess Manifestations" (Mark Samuels) 1-11-18
4. "The Red Book: Liber Novus: A Reader's Edition" (C.G. Jung) 1-12-18
5. "The Soft Machine: The Restored Text" (William S. Burroughs) 1-16-18 +
6. "Injection: Volume 3" (Warren Ellis) 1-18-18
7. "The Largesse of the Sea Maiden" (Denis Johnson) 1-20-18
8. "Ornaments in Jade" (Arthur Machen) 1-21-18
9. "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror" (Robert Louis Stevenson) 1-28-18
10. "The Overnight" (Ramsey Campbell) 1-30-18
11. "Dragon's Crown Volume 1" (Yuztan) 2-3-18
12. "You Shall Never Know Security" (J.R. Hamantaschen) 2-5-18
13. "The Lord Came At Twilight" (Daniel Mills) 2-6-18
14. "The Night Ocean" (Robert H. Barlow/H.P. Lovecraft) 2-8-18
15. "Stupid Baby" (New Juche) 2-9-18
16. "Daughters of Apostasy" (Damian Murphy) 2-14-18
17. "Drowning in Beauty: the Neo-Decadent Anthology" (Various: edited by Justin Isis/Daniel Corrick) 2-18-18
18. "Mountainhead" (New Juche) 2-28-18
19. "Drifting" (J.-K. Huysmans) 3-5-18 +
20. "The Egg: Stories" (Michael Gira) 3-7-18
21. "The Runes of the Earth" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 3-9-18
22. "When People Die/Instagram Haikus" (Thomas Moore) 3-11-18
23. "Super Sons Vol. 2: Planet of the Capes" (Peter J. Tomasi) 3-14-18
24. "Speak No Evil" (Uzodinma Iweala) 3-15-18
25. "The Ammonite Violin & Others" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 3-19-18
26. "Nova Express: The Restored Text" (William S. Burroughs) 3-21-18 +
27. "Less Than Zero" (Bret Easton Ellis) 3-24-18 *
28. "The Rules of Attraction" (Bret Easton Ellis) 4-4-18 *
29. "The Divine Comedy" (Dante Alighieri- Lawrence Grant White translation) 4-6-18
30. "Scum" (Alex Binnie) 4-7-18
31. "The Cursed Soldier" (Tom Champagne) 4-7-18
32. "Down From" (Ursula Pflug) 4-12-18
33. "American Psycho" (Bret Easton Ellis) 4-19-18
34. "N" (Arthur Machen) 4-21-18 +
35. "The Constructionists" (Joanna Tova Price) 4-26-18
36. "The Informers" (Bret Easton Ellis) 5-1-18 *
37. "The Seekers" (Gea Philes) 5-5-18
38. "Glamorama" (Bret Easton Ellis) 5-17-18 *
39. "The House With a Clock in Its Walls" (John Bellairs) 5-19-18
40. "Imperial Bedrooms" (Bret Easton Ellis) 5-21-18 *
41. "The Heel" (Brendan Connell) 5-26-18
42. "Zac's Coral Reef" (Dennis Cooper) 5-29-18
43. "Decadence and Symbolism: A Showcase Anthology" (Various; translated by Brian Stableford) 6-4-18
44. "The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text" (William S. Burroughs) 6-13-18 +
45. "Aiaigasa" (Quentin S. Crisp) 6-14-18
46. "The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn" (John Bellairs) 6-17-18 *
47. "Civil War" (Simon Morris) 6-20-18
48. "Personal Ads" (No Authors Identified) 6-21-18
49. "The Mansion in the Mist" (John Bellairs) 6-28-18
50. "What is Anything? Memoirs of a Life in Lovecraft" (S.T. Joshi) 7-4-18
51. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (Douglas Adams) 7-5-18
52. "To Charles Fort, With Love" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 7-13-18
53. "Prophecies and Dooms" (Mark Samuels) 7-18-18
54. "The Undiscovered Self" (C.G. Jung) 7-19-18
55. "Already Dead" (Denis Johnson) 7-23-18
56. "Knapsacks" (J.-K. Huysmans) 7-24-18
57. "Catwings" (Ursula K. Le Guin) 7-25-18 *
58. "Studies of Death" (Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock) 7-25-18
59. "Pleasant Tales II" (Justin Isis) 7-27-18
60. "Lilith's Legacy: Prose Poems and Short Stories" (Renée Vivien) 8-14-18
61. "Tales of Mystery & Imagination" (Edgar Allan Poe) 8-8-18
62. "The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins" (Clint McElroy/Carey Pietsch) 8-10-18
63. "Crampton" (Thomas Ligotti/Brandon Trenz) 8-16-18
64. "The Star of Gnosia" (Damian Murphy) 8-18-18
65. "The House on the Borderland" (William Hope Hodgson)
66. "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (James Baldwin)
67. "The Rimini-Ferrara Line" (Brendan Connell) 8-31-18
68. "The Secret Agent" (Joseph Conrad) 9-10-18
69. "Locus Solus" (Raymond Roussel) 9-13-18
70. "Marty Page" (Martin Bladh) 9-14-18
71. "Specialist Fabricator" (Gary Mundy) 9-15-18
72. "Missing" (Josh Peterson) 9-16-18
73. "Fatal Revenant" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 9-21-18
74. "Garfield Completed Works: Volume 1: 1978 & 1979" (Jim Davis) 9-22-18
75. "Alice Through the Needle's Eye" (Gilbert Adair) 10-4-18
76. "Bosun" (New Juche) 10-7-18
77. "Against All Things Ending" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 10-16-18
78. "Errant Vice" (Jean Lorrain) 10-18-18
79. "Frankenstein" (Junji Ito) 10-20-18
80. "Happy Days" (Jason Williamson) 10-24-18
81. "Small Talk at the Clinic" (Thomas Moore/Steven Purtill) 10-25-18
82. "The Way of the Worm" (Ramsey Campbell) 10-31-18
83. "Destroy All Monsters" (Jeff Jackson) 11-4-18
84. "Mercury's Choice" (Kyler James) 11-13-18
85. "The Last Dark" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 11-18-18
86. "Unofficial History of Pi Wei" (Brendan Connell) 11-21-18
87. "Witches in Dreamland" (David Barker/W.H. Pugmire) 11-30-18
88. "The Dinosaur Tourist" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 12-3-18
89. "Misty Thule" (Adolphe Retté) 12-4-18
90. "The Prince and the Dressmaker" (Jen Wang) 12-6-18
91. "R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)" (Karel Čapek) 12-7-18
92. "Dr. Black and the Guerrillia" (Brendan Connell) 12-8-18
93. "The Frolic of the Beasts" (Yukio Mishima) 12-15-18
94. "The Double Star and Other Occult Fantasies" (Jane de la Vaudère) 12-17-18
95. "Klaus" (Grant Morrison) 12-17-18 *
96. "Klaus: The New Adventures of Santa Claus" (Grant Morrison) 12-18-18
97. "GuRu" (RuPaul) 12-19-18
98. "Curious Births to Light the Universe" (Brendan Connell) 12-19-18
99. "Santa's Snow Cat" (Sue Stainton) 12-20-18 *
100. "Santa's Snow Kitten" (Sue Stainton) 12-20-18 *
101. "The Legend of Mistletoe and the Christmas Kittens" (Joe Troiano) 12-20-18 *
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*= book I have read at least once in the past
+= book I have read before, but not this reprint/edition/translation
Currently Reading:
"Fascination" (Kevin Killian)
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