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Dale Stromberg

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Melancholic Parables: Being for the Antiselving Reader

Melancholic Parables: Being for the Antiselving Reader

A slippery assortment of stories, whimsical and dolorous, ironic and absurd.

2022

Stories

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My Writing

My posts on Medium are a jumble of different sorts. I’ve made this page to pin to my profile as a way of organising my stuff.

Mar 26, 2023

An antique typewriter on an old wooden desk.

Mar 26, 2023

A Novelist’s Discomfort with Consumerism

How a reading of Arendt’s “The Human Condition” has got me thinking about the value of novels like mine.

Nov 12

A photo of a wall of potato chip packages lined up on shelves with price tags.

Nov 12

Just Who Is “You”?

How ludicrous, and even arrogant, that the author would presume to tell the actual reader what she was actually doing!

Aug 28

The window of a darkened office with the reflection of a neon sign which reads, “What is your story?”

Aug 28

Like a City of Tents in the Wind

An interview with author Tucker Lieberman

Aug 19

A detail from the cover of Tucker Lieberman’s novel Most Famous Short Film of All Time, showing the book title and author name on a cinema marquee.

Aug 19

“Strange, Wonderful, and Sometimes Heartbreaking”

An interview with author Hengtee Lim

Aug 18

Hengtee Lim’s short fiction collection Something Like Hope placed on a bookshelf before a number of other books.

Aug 18

“I’m Just Bloody Minded”

Christopher Kershaw: Author Interview

Aug 17

A detail from the cover of Christopher Kershaw’s novel What Dreams May Come, showing the title in yellow-white text on a red background.

Aug 17

“I’ve Always Been Into Weird Fish”

Fantasy maps and more with artist Marten Norr

Aug 16

Marten Norr’s map of the city of Sforre Yomn, for Dale Stromberg’s high fantasy novel Maej.

Aug 16

Look With Eyes, Think With Brain

An interview with book cover designer Rachel A. Rosen

Aug 5

The cover image of Dale Stromberg’s high fantasy novel MAEJ, designed by Rachel A. Rosen.

Aug 5

Love/Aggression: a review

This madcap novel is a sugar-rush of situational absurdity, wicked satire, hallucinatory imagery, and maximally burlesque characters.

Jul 4

The cover image for June Martin’s novel “Love/Aggression”, featuring a blurb from author Gretchen Felker-Martin which reads, “A dirty delight.”

Jul 4

A Father for Lilja: a review

Jain wants a child, specifically a daughter, specifically to be named Lilja — but she does not want a father for that child. Until she…

May 15

The cover image for Ryszard I. Merey’s novel A Father for Lilja, featuring a honeycomb and drops of honey against a wood background.

May 15

Dale Stromberg

Dale Stromberg

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Castigator of texts and poor devil of letters. Unobtrusive immigrant. Proud papa. He/him. Author of MELANCHOLIC PARABLES.

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