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Pleiades Press will publish my book

(This post was supposed to go up Sunday, December 24th, but in the excitement of Xmas eve, also the eve of my 48th birthday, I neglected to upload it.) Jessy Randall Some happy news: Pleiades Press will publish a collection... Continue reading

Posted Dec 26, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Angry Giraffe and Friends

Jessy Randall The United States is making so many mistakes right now. I can't get used to it, and I don't think we should get used to it. I can't believe how stupid we are, despite all the proofs of... Continue reading

Posted Dec 10, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Stranger Things -- stupid kissing scene -- advice for next season

Jessy Randall Yay, Stranger Things added another girl to the gang, so along with Eleven, we got Mad Max, skateboarder, Dig Dug champ, sister of very scary dude Billy, family with a mysterious past. Cool! But then, not cool. SPOILERS,... Continue reading

Posted Nov 12, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Colorado College's Own Harvey Weinstein

Jessy Randall When I accepted a position as Colorado College archivist in 2001, many small mysteries awaited me: had Mathias Hall been designed by prison architects? (No.) What happened to the statue of Winged Victory in the old Coburn Library?... Continue reading

Posted Oct 29, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Big Book Move of 1962

Jessy Randall In the spring of 1962, Colorado College students, faculty, and staff moved books and other materials from the soon-to-be-demolished Coburn Library to the new Tutt Library in what became known as the Big Book Move. Boxes traveled down... Continue reading

Posted Oct 15, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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library prank

Jessy Randall Borrowing from myself over at Library Shenanigans ... The best thing about this shenanigan, to me, isn’t that it takes place at my own library (I’m in charge of Special Collections at Colorado College). No, the best thing... Continue reading

Posted Oct 1, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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library prank

Jessy Randall Borrowing from myself over at Library Shenanigans ... The best thing about this shenanigan, to me, isn’t that it takes place at my own library (I’m in charge of Special Collections at Colorado College). No, the best thing... Continue reading

Posted Sep 29, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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New Dante editions at Colorado College

Jessy Randall Colorado College Special Collections recently acquired five editions of Dante's Commedia for use alongside the 1491, 1536, and 1822 editions (and others) already in our teaching collection. Above, an image from a facsimile of the 14th century "Dante... Continue reading

Posted Sep 17, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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James Patterson isn't usually actually James Patterson...

Jessy Randall James Patterson doesn't actually write the majority of his books! You guys probably already knew this, but I didn't. My 13-year-old daughter recently got into Patterson's books (or should I say "Patterson's" books), both the Maximum Ride young... Continue reading

Posted Sep 3, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Adieu, Tuttlet!

Jessy Randall My past month has been taken up with the big library move at Colorado College. My department, Special Collections, moved from Tutt South (colloquially known as "Tuttlet") to the newly renovated Tutt Main (soon to be just plain... Continue reading

Posted Aug 20, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Goodbye, Tuttlet

Jessy Randall For fifteen years I've worked in "Tuttlet," the 1980 addition to the Colorado College Tutt Library (built 1962). This is what Tuttlet looks like this week: And soon it will be gone altogether. I'm in my new digs... Continue reading

Posted Aug 6, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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maybe a way forward

Jessy Randall My friend, political scientist Kris Kanthak, delivered this sermon at a Unitarian Church in Pittsburgh this past Sunday. I felt better after reading it and feel like maybe there's a way forward in the U.S. after all. *******************... Continue reading

Posted Jul 23, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Laurie R. King's Lockdown

Jessy Randall Laurie R. King's new novel, Lockdown, is really good. I read it on the beach and on the porch during a vacation that just ended. And now I will go back to dealing with the over 300 emails... Continue reading

Posted Jul 9, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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when you're trying to write a poem

Jessy Randall When you're trying to write a poem and your cat sits on your notebook. How do they know? Why do they do this?? The folks at Bustle have some possible explanations. Continue reading

Posted Jun 25, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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when do literary journals usually respond?

Jessy Randall Now and then, on Facebook, I'll see a post along the lines of "why are all the rejections arriving at the same time??". I went into my submission records to see if there are certain months when magazines... Continue reading

Posted Jun 11, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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The Woman in Cabin 10

Jessy Randall Ruth Ware is my new favorite mystery author! This book's so good. I'm gonna go back and read her first novel, In a Dark, Dark Wood, and I can look forward to her new one, The Lying Game,... Continue reading

Posted May 28, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Jessy Randall I'm reading a mystery-not-mystery...

Jessy Randall I'm reading a mystery-not-mystery novel right now, Barbara Gowdy's Helpless. It's the story of the kidnapping of a preternaturally beautiful nine-year-old girl. Gowdy got into the minds of elephants in her novel White Bone and now she's in... Continue reading

Posted May 14, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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J. Ryan Stradal's Kitchens of the Great Midwest

Jessy Randall J. Ryan Stradal's novel Kitchens of the Great Midwest is a terrific book. It's the story of Eva Thorval, a chef with a palate described by other characters as "the most sophisticated I've ever seen" and "once-in-a-generation." Each... Continue reading

Posted Apr 30, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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anti-trump venues for writers

I don't know about you, but lately I can't seem to write anything except anti-trump stuff. Mostly I've been taking other people's drawings of animals (send me yours, [email protected], I like jpegs) and putting leftist words with them. I know... Continue reading

Posted Apr 16, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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"In the Library" mystery novels

Jessy Randall My writer-friend Jonathan Caws-Elwitt recently realized that his favorite Lawrence Block novel is The Burglar in the Library and his favorite L C. Tyler novel is The Herring in the Library, leading him to search around for other... Continue reading

Posted Apr 2, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Hanukkah Gelt by T. Lee Harris

Lorinda J. Taylor guest-blogs for Jessy Randall this week. ★★★★★ I've read some of T. Lee Harris’s Egyptian tales and liked them a lot, but Hanukkah Gelt is the first of her mysteries that I’ve read. It was very enjoyable... Continue reading

Posted Mar 19, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters

Jessy Randall The best detective novel / thriller I've read in months is Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters. Maybe it's not officially a mystery, not exactly, but it's definitely in that ballpark -- we have a conflicted narrator hunting... Continue reading

Posted Mar 5, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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things that are cheering me up

Jessy Randall Things that are cheering me up during the shit show that is American politics right now: Pokemon Go update long walks and bike rides my work at Colorado College Special Collections Mary Chenoweth exhibition at the Colorado Springs... Continue reading

Posted Feb 19, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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libraries respond to president drumpf

Jessy Randall I'm the resident librarian at Dead Guy, so this post is at least semi-appropriate for the blog. Borrowing from my own work at Library Shenanigans... Check out this sign at the library of the Howard University School of... Continue reading

Posted Feb 5, 2017 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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You're always allowed to say nice one! You joke about being barred, but a lot of things we thought were jokes seem to be happening for real these days.

Commented Jan 27, 2017 on it's not a dictatorship... at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room

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