Lucius Shepard ~ Viator

the only pleasure capable of outstripping reading Lucius Shepard is re-reading Lucius Shepard. beyond that, there is only this singular gift of re-reading a masterwork of Lucius’ in a form spectacularly reworked by him. VIATOR, a novel centered on a freighter violently beached on a beach near a destitute port near Nome, AL, and its …

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Nikolai Groszni ~ Wunderkind

just finished reading Nikolai Grozni’s WUNDERKIND, a novel based on the author’s life experience as a gifted young pianist in a Bulgarian School for the Gifted in Sofia during the last days of the Iron Curtain. it’s a very dark but sometimes darkly comic novel, with, not incidentally, some of the smartest and most beautiful …

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Expelled From Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader (ed. Larry McCaffery and Michael Hemmingson)

just finished reading the devotedly curated collection, EXPELLED FROM EDEN, A WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN READER, edited by Larry McCaffery and Michael Hemmingson. i’ve read all of Vollmann’s work (admittedly, only the 800-page condensed version of the 7-volume ‘life’s work’ of Vollmann (though i do own the complete), his history and calculus of violence, RISING UP …

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