The following posts include (1) "footnotes" for The Doris Piserchia Website (link at left), (2) texts-in-process that will eventually appear there, (3) texts from other websites, and (we hope) (4) stimulating discussion threads. The picture to the left is the back cover of The Spinner (book club edition), depicting a citizen of Eastland "hanging out" while Ekler the cop and Rune the idiot-superman look on.
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Looking back at a post I wrote 17 years ago (good grief, has it been that long?), I've had some second thoughts. I was chiding Doris Piserchia for not using the internet to get her stories out there, at a point where they'd been out of print for 20 years. Her approach was to protect her copyrights and let people find the work in libraries and used book stores. In hindsight, with all her books back in circulation as e-books from a major publisher, she was right and I was wrong. At the time I wrote the post I was net-bullish in a way I am not now, post-Snowden and Zuckerberg. Holding the work back, especially when it had already been published in the big leagues, and waiting for publishers to come back around to her, was the right way to go.