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posts from 2023 / 04 / 09

  1. it usually drives me crazy when writers (borrowing another afterword word) peacock how well-read or at least broadly-read they are, or explode every scene into a McMaster-Carr order, but the half-a-dozen fields expanded in Novel Explosives and the etymology there-in kept my attention.

  2. ninth book, a real (borrowing from the afterword) wrist-punishing, discursive, door-stopper: “Novel Explosives" by Jim Gauer ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29363276-novel-explosives)

    I looked for a review that resonated: https://books.substack.com/p/review-joy-williams-on-jim-gauer

    The 2022 paperback cover of Novel Explosives, a frozen stellar explosion over a shattering black flower of flat glass centered in a field of sky blue with the title over the top and author’s name over the bottom in cream all-caps san serif.

  3. eponymous peaks

    picture of Twin Peaks next to Sutro Tower from McKinley Square, from which the side by side paid actually look like twins