In our morning reading: thoughts on the film adaptation of “Train Dreams,” nonfiction from Kyle Seibel, and more.
Morning Bites: “Train Dreams” on Film, Revisiting Raymond Roussel, Michael Swanwick’s Fiction, and More
Morning Bites: Interviewing Kristopher Jansma, Raymond Roussel Fiction, Bruna Dantas Lobato on Translation, and More
In our morning reading: interviews with Kristopher Jansma and Bruna Dantas Lobato, fiction by Raymond Roussel, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Raymond Roussel, W.S. Merwin Remembered, Robert Lopez, Gabino Iglesias Interviewed, and More
In our afternoon reading: Jeff Jackson on Raymond Roussel, interviews with Robert Lopez and Gabino Iglesias, and more.
B. Catling on “The Vorrh” and “The Velocity of Mistake”
Attempting to summarize B. Catling‘s novel The Vorrh is something of a challenge. Within it can be found a period adventure story, in which one determined man sets out on a strange quest, and an equally determined man sets out to stop him. There are also real-life figures, including Eadweard Muybridge, whose actions and obsessions act as a counterpoint to the sections of the book largely set in colonial Africa, in and around the forest that gives the book its […]