Just finished reading (in a day) Kathryn Davis’ surreal novel of one residential block and the stories and histories of the girls who grow old there amidst robots, floating scows in the sky, sense ports and post-apocalyptica. really a whole style and flavour i’ve never encountered before. lucky for all of us, she’s written another …
just finished reading John Eliot Gardiner’s impassioned retelling of J. S. BACH‘s life (mainly by an appreciation, deeply interpreted and inhabited, of a comprehensive knowledge of his liturgical music), Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven. what an incredible experience. especially hearing, as soundtrack for my two-week traversal of this epochal biography, Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s supple, …
missed one. just finished reading the only one of the Jack Taylor novels i’d inadvertently missed by Ken Bruen, Headstone. people spend a lot of time comparing Ken to every other recognizable master of noir, darker than, more violent than, etc. but they’ve not had the honor to read his short works, as collected in …
just finished re-reading (i’d the privilege of reading an earlier version) Stephen Graham Jones’ now published perfect novel of the undead, The Gospel of Z. most of them strive for the anthropomorphic and lose entirely the meditative, intensely personal and shockingly intimate shades of potential in this genre; resurrection over reanimation. SGJ nails it, as …
just finished reading the latest and greatest from Ken Bruen, Purgatory, in his Jack Taylor series. Ken is the master of the noir koan. No one writes with more acid humour cut to the bone, no one approaches him in his cynicism. I’ve read all of him (hey, i did miss one, the prior to …
just finished reading Volume Five of the Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, title taken from the story that eventually became Total Recall. I went through all PKD’s sci-fi novels (and a couple of his domestics) this summer, so it was inevitable I go through all the shorts. …