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  1. tenth book, Matt Ruff’s “Lovecraft Country” sequel, “The Destroyer of Worlds” ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61190257-the-destroyer-of-worlds)

    I’ve been a huge fan of Ruff since “Sewer, Gas, and Electric" ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71846.Sewer_Gas_and_Electric) and of course the Lovecraft Country show was also p good (although a bit scary for my tastes), so, picking this up after Novel Explosions was a great call.

    The current hardback edition cover of Destroyer of Worlds, designed to look like a distressed pulp paperback printed directly on the cover rather than using a dust jacket (yay, I hate futzing with dust jackets)

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. eponymous peaks

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

  5. so clearly the goal isn’t zero deaths, and the city should drop the vision zero pretense, it is absolutely stollen valor at this point

    I’m also pretty unsatisfied w/ the SF Bike Coalition line on this. They’ve never, in the history of the organization, been radical, but c’mon y’all “centering merchants voices?” sounds like something london breed would say.

    I probably won’t renew my membership #BicyclingInSanFrancisco

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