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05SEP23 / accessions
Another book by singular fabulist (and local librarian) Karin Tidbeck was an easy decision. Chris W Kim’s Adherent was a more spontaneous acquisition, spotted face-out on a shelf: it looks interesting and sui generis, so why not?
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The Plastic Ocean Pirates ride again
The ToC dropped last week, so I figure I can safely announce that I have a story in Jared Shurin’s Big Book of Cyberpunk, the USian edition of which is released on September 24th, with a UK edition to follow some time next year. “Los Piratas del Mar de Plastico” was commissioned by Chairman Bruce…
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an era of simplistic interpretations
Another drive-by quote post: here’s Lincoln Michel discussing surrealism and, more broadly, the interpretation of art. A bit from near the end: We live in an era of simplistic interpretations where across the political spectrum people expect art to be some kind of moral instruction. If something is unreal, it must be straightforward allegory and…
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something you get a gold star on
There’s a little aside in the last few paragraphs of Joanne McNeil’s latest newsletter which manages to totally nail something otherwise rather nebulous about contemporary fiction, a thing that I’ve been struggling to articulate clearly. After a re-read of China Miéville’s The City & the City, Jo wonders: Where are the writers with edges? I…
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maintaining my empire of kicking
Twice in one week for Philosophy Bear? Looks that way, yeah. If I kick Job three times and kick Rob once and then try to recruit Rob into maintaining my kicking scheme because he’s only getting kicked once, I think saying that Rob is privileged is wrong. But more than just wrong, it’s exactly the…
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”