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19OCT22 / accessions
The long awaited tenth volume of Saga finally washed up on Swedish shores yesterday (and proved very much worth the wait). And I couldn’t pass up a collection of stories by the Magus of Northampton, though I am somewhat trepiditious: I acquired Jerusalem ages ago, but never managed to get more than a quarter through…
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were you a fisherman, before?
No surprise, really, but in case you had any doubts: Kate Beaton’s Ducks is a masterwork. Funny and sad and profound and tragic, an exposure of the world and of the self, the weight of the story perfectly balanced by the lightness of the style. Stayed up to the early hours to finish it in…
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palpably anxious authors
Interesting and accidental juxtaposition in these two bits from very different scenes and sources, which nonetheless rhyme strongly: In my most cynical moments, I wonder if the return to literary moralism isn’t an evolutionary tactic of publishing’s extant power structures, substituting real-world issues of employment and portfolio identity representation—which do matter—with equitable representation within individual…
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].”