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Writer, higher ed storyteller, @hippocampusmag founder. Co-ed, Getting to the Truth. Curious. Loves diners, road trips, ephemera, wordplay & board games.

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Hippocampus Magazine

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By Donna Talarico
| Hippocampus Magazine
The Best of the Net Anthology from Sundress Publications has been celebrating literary journals and creative writers since 2006. Each year, they issue a call for nominees to put together a collection of, well, the best of the ‘net from that year. Submitted each September, the nominations must be for stories published within their fiscal year of July 1 to June 30.
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REVIEW: Somebody is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys by Mariana Enriquez

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By Donna Talarico
| Hippocampus Magazine
It’s no surprise that Mariana Enriquez, an Argentinian writer well-known for gothic and horror fiction, makes her nonfiction debut with a book about cemeteries. In Somebody is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys (Hogarth; September 2025), Enriquez takes the reader on a wild and expansive tour across four continents featuring 21 cemeteries. However, this book is not simply a detailing of a macabre goth hobby.
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REVIEW: Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer by Ariel Gore

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By Donna Talarico
| Hippocampus Magazine
I wrote, and then mysteriously lost — I hate you, too, Microsoft Word — the first draft of this review a week ago. On most days, I believe in portents, which became one of the reasons I fell in love with Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer (Amethyst Editions; March 2025) by Ariel Gore. And when Word abandoned my draft, I wondered if the Universe had considered my draft to be unworthy. Spooked, I put the review’s reconstitution aside until this damp Sunday morning.
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