I went into Scheltema this morning. I wasn’t even looking for a book… but I got sidetracked (it’s a five-storey bookstore, in retrospect it was inevitable). I got caught by this.
That’s Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip. (It’s actually “Volume 1″ of “The Complete…”, projected to run to five volumes, which to my mind [...]
Shaun Tan’s The Arrival (which I have raved about before) has won a Locus Award: for best Art Book. Well-deserved, I must say (his website has images from the book, they’re even more beautiful full-size on the page).
Now go find it and read it. Look at it. Whatever you do with a wordless story-in-pictures. ‘Enjoy’ [...]
Next week it’s Brendan Adkins’ birthday, and he’s giving us a present. Ommatidia, the first Anacrusis book, already exists. Wow. And in a week or so we’ll be able to order it. That gives you about a week to trawl through the archives and discover that that’s exactly what you’re going to do.
Update: It’s here.
Hot on the heels of my last bit of Small Beer lovin’ comes their announcement: they’re also releasing Maureen F. McHugh’s Mothers and Other Monsters for free download. And I should have remembered that Kelly Link (who runs Small Beer, along with Gavin Grant) did the same with her own collection Stranger Things Happen way [...]
The supercool Small Beer Press are publishing a collection of short stories by John Kessel, and alongside the print release they’re offering non-DRM, free downloads (pdf/html/rtf/txt) released under Creative Commons license.
There’s a Kessel story in The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet (”The Red Phone”) and it’s very short, very odd and very funny. But [...]
LibraryThing might not be “all the wonderful”, but it’s a lot of the wonderful. Still, it’s pretty scary when it knows more about the state of my relationship than I do.
Sifting through my recommendations I found Changing Babies by Deborah Moggach. You can bet I clicked that button labelled “Why” in double-quick time, and found: [...]
Over at my LibraryThing reviews account I just posted my review of Shaun Tan’s beautiful story-in-pictures The Arrival. I can’t recommend it highly enough. You can see some images on the artist’s website (I’ve linked a few from the review also).
After posting the review I started wandering through other people’s reviews (the perils and joys [...]
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Ok, that reads like a headline from The Onion… but I just came upon a passage in The Scar that seems to suggest that Miéville’s world is flat.
Here it is, from page 166 of the Del Rey mass market paperback edition:
The seasons were only points of view—matters of perspective. [...]
Hot on the heels of the Riddley Walker annotations project I found a couple of months ago, the extraordinary Zarf11. Author of some damn fine interactive fiction, a bunch of apps and libraries, many reviews and a wonderfully strange column, among many, many other things. [↪] has produced a monumental cross-indexed reference for John M. [...]
People who write in library books deserve to be stabbed with their pencils. On the other hand, while it makes reading the original much harder, a certain kind of annotation is guaranteed to add comic relief to the driest of academic prose.
And indeed, Dutch translations of tricky idiomatic phrases such as “a preliminary stab at” [...]