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About Bill Ectric

Bill Ectric wants to believe it's possible to erase the line between mysticism and science. He likes to take long walks, drink coffee, sleep & dream, and contemplate the nature of reality. He has had two actual lucid dreams and is trying for a third.

On the internet, his writing appears on Literary Kicks, Sein und Werden, Spolia, Empty Mirror, Candlelight Stories, Red Fez, Boston Poetry, Perversion Magazine, Gin Mill Cowboy, The Beat, and Lit Up Magazine.

Bill’s novel, Tamper, is about a young man growing up in the 1960s obsessed with unexplained mysteries, B-movies, and strange noises in his parent’s basement. The book takes its name from real-life 1940s science fiction writer Richard Shaver, who believed that underground fiends were tampering with his mind.

One of his favorite sayings is the Zen proverb, "Before I was enlightened, I chopped wood and carried water; after I was enlightened, I chopped wood and carried water."

Steve Aylett is Creative People’s Drug of Choice

Bill Ectric

Steve Aylett: A Critical Anthology book review

The following is a modified version of the first essay in Steve Aylett: A Critical Anthology (Sein und Werden, 2016), in which various authors discuss and analyze the work of Steve Aylett. The … [Read more...]

Book Review – Stranger Days: A Novel by Rachel Kendall

Bill Ectric

Stranger Days Rachel Kendall

Hemingway praised Paris as “a movable feast.” Henry James, in his preface to the 1903 edition of The Ambassadors, described a cliché that may or may not be true. He said “the moral scheme breaks down … [Read more...]

Cut-Up (The Stolen Scroll)

Bill Ectric

kerouac on the road scroll fragment

Jim sat at the library table with his head in his hands. He didn't want to go to jail. Yesterday morning he prided himself in caring nothing for possessions, but today, all the people who could have … [Read more...]

Pete Brown, Legendary Poet and Cream Lyricist, Interviewed by Bill Ectric

Bill Ectric

Pete Brown

On June 16 ("Bloomsday"), 1964, Pete Brown gave the first ever poetry reading at Morden Tower, now a literary landmark in Newcastle, England. The Morden Tower Readings, conceived and organized by Tom … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

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