May 25, 2012
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You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack — Tom Gauld has a Tumblr (The title is a reference to this of course). Legacy Issues — Stephen Page, chief executive of Faber & Faber, writing at The Guardian: Let’s deal with technological … Continue reading
January 20, 2012
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Adrift in the World – Tim Parks on fiction and place for the NYRB Blog: If there is a problem with the novel, and I’m agreed with [David] Shields that there is, it is not because it doesn’t participate in … Continue reading
December 21, 2011
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Kate Beaton’s Wonder Woman returns. Five-Pointed Stars of Pain — An excellent post on Dan Clowes and his latest book The Death- Ray at The Brooklyn Rail: Clowes engaged themes consistent with those of literary fiction in visual terms and in bookstore-friendly … Continue reading
December 19, 2011
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Canadian cultural critic Jeet Heer had a great piece on Tintin in Saturday’s Globe and Mail: Hergé belongs to the noble line of boys’ books and thrillers that includes Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, John Buchan’s The 39 Steps, Rudyard Kipling’s … Continue reading
December 5, 2011
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As mentioned earlier, I was in Vancouver last week and I wasn’t able to post as regularly as I would have liked to. So to make up for Friday’s missing links, here are a few things of interest to start … Continue reading