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Randall Mann, a poet much influenced by Thom Gunn, remembers Thom Gunn.
Adam Roberts at Strange Horizons, which I should read more often, turns in a fine review of a fine academic book, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr’s, The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, which I’ve just reviewed for a reliable but slower-moving academic journal. Anyone with any interest both in academic lit-crit matters and in sf as a literary genre pretty much needs to stop whatever he or she is doing this morning, find Csicsery-Ronay’s book and start reading it now. (Note: both-and, not either-or.)
Jessie and I and Nathan stayed up on the Fourth of July to watch the fireworks and the pops orchestra on television a couple of weeks ago, and we found ourselves wondering: how did a piece of music associated with Napoleon’s retreat from Russia become so strongly associated with a US patriotic holiday? Andrew Duckenbrod at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has the story.
I’ve been asked to chat about my summer reading at the fine National Book Critics Circle blog, but I wanted to put in a link to it in advance of said chat: it’s always full of suggestions. As I think about what to say and do there I’ll be reading Phoebe Putnam’s week of contributions to the Best American Poetry blog: she’s somebody who thinks about graphic design and other visual matters all the time, incisively, and she’ll be discussing book cover design over there.
And on Thursday I’ll be watching the critic and editor Willard Spiegelman at Porter Square Books. Maybe you will too.
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