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wind05 in Harvard Square for dinner and book-browsing, read papersky's Farthing (excellent and immensely unreassuring: I may attempt to devote a post to it later), and started Nabokov's Ada or Ardor.
Today I learned from Ellen Datlow that my poem "Follow Me Home" (Lone Star Stories #19) will appear in the still-compiling Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 21st Annual Collection.
October is the best month ever.
wind05 in Harvard Square for dinner and book-browsing, read papersky's Farthing (excellent and immensely unreassuring: I may attempt to devote a post to it later), and started Nabokov's Ada or Ardor.Today I learned from Ellen Datlow that my poem "Follow Me Home" (Lone Star Stories #19) will appear in the still-compiling Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 21st Annual Collection.
October is the best month ever.
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Thank you!
I like it better than Lolita, in part because of its semi-slipstreamy elements.
Of which I had no prior warning, so I had the fun of noticing names I didn't recognize and geographies that didn't quite seem to mesh until the alternate nature of the world was made explicit. So far I am enjoying it very much. I still love Lolita and Pale Fire and King, Queen, Knave.
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Thank you!
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Thanks!
(also: icon love)
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This has entirely made my month, yeah. Thanks!
Looking forward to hearing what you have to say about Farthing, if you do get around to that post.
I shall endeavor to. Possibly my favorite aspect was the ending, since mysteries—unless films noir—are by definition concerned with problem-solving, and here the problem is not only not solved, it is in fact worsened; on the other hand, I did not love the book solely for its structural twists. I'm looking eagerly forward to Ha'Penny.
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Nine
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Thank you. I think it is one of the best poems I wrote last year.
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Hee. (I am the author; I cannot say it myself . . .) Thank you!
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Thank you!
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Thank you! And the best of luck to you in the meanwhile!
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Go, you. I love that poem.
October is the best month ever.
And it's only just the third day. You must be hiding something else important:).
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Thank you. I think you might have been the first person to read it.
And it's only just the third day.
Well, so far this autumn in general is awesome . . .
You must be hiding something else important
"For some, autumn comes early, stays late, through life, where October follows September and November touches October and then instead of December and Christ’s birth there is no Bethlehem Star, no rejoicing, but September comes again and old October and so on down the years, with no winter, spring or revivifying summer. For these beings, fall is the ever normal season, the only weather . . ."
—Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)
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Thank you! I really was not expecting this: I need more pleasant surprises in my life!
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Thank you!
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And I'm glad you liked Farthing. Or whatever.
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Thank you! Yeah. This was completely out of left field, in a good sort of way.
I'm glad you liked Farthing. Or whatever.
I liked it very much. Thank you for it.
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Thanks!