Friday, February 29, 2008
In another “obviously still catching up with my RSS reader” item, here is a contagiously enthusiastic post on Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art by John Holbo of The Valve (via SFSignal.com).
Peake’s fame rests primarily (and justifiably) on his masterpiece: the Gormenghast trilogy. In Gormenghast, Peake created a fantasy-world unlike any other in literature. [...]
Sunday, February 17, 2008
I realize that I’m quite late with this item but I just read it today, so here is Guardian blogger Damien G Walter on The New Weird. The reason I can’t resist re-posting and commenting on this piece is that about halfway through it I started humming “These are a few of my favourite things…” [...]
Monday, February 11, 2008
The incomparable Maud Newton recently posted a link to a wonderful old interview with Jorge Luis Borges. In fact, Maud has posted several times about Borges since January.
In another one of those great bits of synchronicity life occasionally tweaks us with; I started reading Borges just this winter myself.
I find him challenging in the best sense [...]
Today’s New York Times includes a review by William Grimes of the new novel by Charles Nicholl: The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street. In this novel, Nicholl draws on the details known of Shakespeare’s life to create an intriguing new picture of renaissance England. It’s a bit of a relief to find someone [...]
Check out this North Coast Journal (via RareBookNews.com) article on art books. It serves to highlight two items of interest to me: reconfiguring books into art and Fine Books & Collections Magazine.
The article includes a shout-out to Scott Brown, who co-founded and edits the excellent Fine Books & Collections. I am a proud subscriber of [...]
