Gunnerkrigg Court
This weekend I re-read all of one of my favorite webcomics called Friendly Hostility. Apparently Estelle and Anna were also big fans back in the day, and I had such a great time bonding with Estelle over it that I decided to return the favor and next read one of her favorites.
She recommends Tom Siddell’s Gunnerkrigg Court. She says it starts off a little slow but that I will indubitably fall madly in love with it. Want to read along? Recommend others?
There was a Bond Marathon on Television
“After you left I determined to speak only in Bond titles. Everything seemed dire then and I had never felt less heroic. I thought about painting the small of back gold too because I had given up all hope of you coming back - you were after all, always leaping to a perpetual death only to re-appear in a new story sometimes looking different but better.
You told once, “The World is Not Enough” and I thought that “Diamonds Are Forever” but now I can only write to you “From Paris with Love”
W. W. Norton: As a writer, how did your experience writing memoir differ from the experience of writing fiction?
A lot of what’s in my “accidental memoir”, I’ve tried to write as a novel three separate times over nearly thirty years: growing up in the shadow of the Vietnam war; living with a single mother in poverty; having sex way too young (13), and the drugs, the alcohol, the violence and very few men…
This is from an interview with Andre Dubus III who is an American novelist and short story writer and most recently published a book called Townie - A Memoir which I sincerely hope is about Lowell, MA.
I love that he thinks of fiction as an exploratory exercise, that’s exactly how I see it and I think a very healthy way to see it. I also didn’t know who he was before this and now this has been added to my Reading List.
(Source: litstack.com)
