{"id":28608,"date":"2019-07-15T21:52:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T18:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=28608"},"modified":"2019-07-15T21:52:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T18:52:58","slug":"call-penumbra-a-journal-for-criticism-and-scholarship-of-weird-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/07\/15\/call-penumbra-a-journal-for-criticism-and-scholarship-of-weird-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Call: &#8216;Penumbra&#8217;, a journal for criticism and scholarship of weird fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S.T. Joshi is back from his Australian tour and <a href=\"http:\/\/stjoshi.org\/news.html\">his blog<\/a> has just updated.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s wittled his Lovecraft biography down to a mere 8,000 words and has committed the results to a vinyl LP record!  This is due for release shortly, with music &mdash; and I assume also with graphic design and sleeve-notes of the sort that will please the vinyl collectors.<\/p>\n<p>Joshi also notes an Italian translation of the first volume of <em>I Am Providence<\/em> is due for October 2019, with the dust-jacket sporting an affordable &#8220;29 Euro&#8221; tag. The second volume of the German language translation is less certain on the date, but is reported as likely to appear at around the same time. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/italian.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/italian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"449\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28609\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>News also of a new Joshi editorship, of &#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a new magazine to be published next summer by Hippocampus Press: <em>Penumbra<\/em>. This will be an annual magazine, consisting of up to 100,000 words, chiefly devoted to criticism and scholarship of weird fiction (exclusive of Lovecraft), but it will also include a small amount of original fiction (about 30,000 words in each issue).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Submissions are invited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S.T. Joshi is back from his Australian tour and his blog has just updated. He&#8217;s wittled his Lovecraft biography down &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/07\/15\/call-penumbra-a-journal-for-criticism-and-scholarship-of-weird-fiction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21,23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-odd-scratchings","category-podcasts-etc","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}