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Nate D’s 2020 Year in Books
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Nate Dorr
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As a more visual counterpart to various GR and other activities, Maya Edelman and I also maintain Expansive Mouthfeel, an evolving collection of comics, art, ephemera, film stills, etc. In an attempt to combat the regurgitative nature of a lot of social media, we try to stick to material we gather, scan, research, and capture ourselves. Granted, by "maintain" I mean "fire off intermittent month-lo
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"Highly symbolic and dense with allusions, Ithell Colquhoun’s occult novel I Saw Water follows the narrator Sister Brigid (aka Ella) as she moves toward her ‘second death’—a Theosophical concept whereby a person’s astral body lives on for a time after"
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"On the surface, Fini crafts a relatively simple plot: an unknown narrator leaves a vaguely Mediterranean mainland for the island of Rogomelec, where secretive monks administer an infamous 'cure' at their decrepit monastery. The tale continues in a se"
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""The Small People," one of the two novelettes contained herein, is not just my favorite Ligotti story of all-time, but one of the very best pieces of fiction I've ever read, and I've revisited it every year since I first bought this mini-collection b"
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I'm so glad it struck you as much as it did me! And you're so right, it really does get right to the heart of the excitement of literature and all its
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"I have a nasty feeling I overuse the word "dazzling". But I can't think of a better one to describe this novel.
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I do like the degree to which that other cover posits an entirely different book that the pulp sci-fi market of the 60s would have been more able to d
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| Oh melodramatic plotting. All those machinations expended just to keep a thread twisting about for the length of a mass market paperback, more fun when turned to maintaining intrigues, much less so when designed simply to bring two people together or ...more | |
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Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See
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| On the vertically integrated production-marketing-journalism system of American cinema. I'd rather read Rosenbaum more talking directly about films he cares about than the apparatuses around them (as he does in a few essays here), but any of his film ...more | |
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| Shirley Jackson's psychological horror was informed, I'm not all that surprised to learn, by a love of the actual occult throughout history. Here, she goes deeply into the actual historical record around the Salem witch trials. There's little more te ...more | |
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“The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (“Tomorrow”)”
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“...what one ought to capture in beauty is that which is treacherous and irresistible...”
― War & War
― War & War
“I said that I have finished telling my story, not that the story is finished. I said before that no story is ever really finished, each one is part of a longer story and consists of smaller stories, some of which are told, others passed over in silence. And whenever you tell any one of the stories, whether you intend it or not, you include the shadow of all the others. The result is that once you have told one story, once you have undone the meshes of the net at one point, you are trapped. You are compelled to go on with the story. And because we ourselves, like all life, are stories, we become the story of the stories.”
― The Architect of Ruins
― The Architect of Ruins
“May your course not run from one end to the other; for such a course does not exist; but may every step you take mark a redressed projection.
With your left foot you shall wipe out the footprint of your right foot.”
― El libro de Monelle
With your left foot you shall wipe out the footprint of your right foot.”
― El libro de Monelle
“Do you believe, she went on, that the past dies?
Yes, said Margaret. Yes, if the present cuts its throat.”
― The Seventh Horse And Other Tales
Yes, said Margaret. Yes, if the present cuts its throat.”
― The Seventh Horse And Other Tales
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Thanks Scribble! And best of luck with the exceedingly promising new press!
Happy New Year, Nate - all the best for 2014!
Of course, Kris! I've also been enjoying your reviews for a while, it was definitely time!
Thanks so much for accepting my friend request, Nate! :)
I had an incident in which I had too much to drink and in a fit of some sort I indiscriminately deleted nearly all of my GR friends. I'm slowly crawling back to them still. Thanks for the re-friending.
This reminded me of you and other ex-Nate's latest name change: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLQvrc...
That works! And yeah, you are solely responsible for that D. We read enough of the same books and hang about the same groups that it seemed prudent.
Did you just recently "D" your name? Perhaps this doppelganger thing was just getting confusing. Well, I've decided to mutate my moniker as well, though to what I'm still deciding. I considered "No, not THAT Nate" or "The Other Nate" or "Alter Nate." For now I'm going to wear a tail around, see how it suits me.
Well, that does sound alarming but we, at least, should be protected from air conditioning failure by not having any installed at the moment.
NYC made the news here on account of how airconditioning in the City is expected to fail in the next couple of days (!?). Over here, its not even funny. We normally don’t have any summer to speak of, but this year, I think we’re skipping over a season, entirely. I don’t need to go to any river myself: the river has come to me: I can just row in to work. Wales is completely flooded, Scotland is under too (hmm, I haven’t seen MJ today: I hope he hasn’t drowned).
My grasp of celsius is spotty enough that I can only take your word that this is so! But yes, there is some broiling going on. Sunday, however, was a breezy low-70s, (23 celsius, about, I think?), a good day for a long river-side bike trek. Actual London, I expect, is still chill and damp rather than fiery?
40 degrees in ny today, eh? goes well with 'the great fire of london' in a way. like a 3d experience.
