Ray Davis is an essayist and publisher.
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In 1890, American historian Henry Adams traveled to the South Pacific and worked with Tahiti’s royal family to create a unique blend of memoir, ethnography, and colonial history that recorded the island’s culture and past.
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Since 1991, essayist Ray Davis has been chronicling his own work at Pseudopodium and the work of others at Bellona Times Repress. Based in El Cerrito, California, his writing has also appeared in Music & Literature, Genre, Senses of Cinema, Bright Lights Film Journal, Public Domain Review, Ash of Stars, the Valve group website, and other venues.
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Paul Kerschen’s the Warm South
Co-authors: Ray Davis | Music & Literature | May | 2019
The Warm South is a nuanced critical exploration of travel, literature, and the complex cultural resonance of the Mediterranean. Featured in Music & Literature, Davis examines how historical and artistic perceptions of the region continue to shape modern identity and creative thought.
Co-authors: Ray Davis | Senses of Cinema | October | 2005
In this essay for Senses of Cinema, Davis provides a nuanced reading of Ernst Lubitsch’s 1946 film Cluny Brown, focusing on how the protagonist’s refusal to “know her place” disrupts rigid English class structures. He argues that the film uses plumbing and “parlor manners” as metaphors for a deeper, subversive desire for freedom and unconventionality.
Co-authors: Ray Davis | A Personal Anthology
In this dark and unsettling short story, a man becomes obsessively convinced that his neighbor’s frequent, loud nose-blowing is a calculated psychological attack designed to humiliate him. As his irritation spirals into a paranoid fixation, the narrative explores the thin line between social nuisance and murderous madness.
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