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9 Mar 1616: Francis Beaumont, playwright, interred in #Westminster Abbey near #Chaucer & #Spenser #otd

So happy to share this new little publication! I've been thinking about #Spenser, #allegory, and #anime for a decade now, and trying to process altogether too much information, so it's nice to see a small part of that thinking out in the world. Huge thanks to the editors for their careful engagement with my argument and for their patience in helping me sort out the key terms.
https://www.spenserreview.org/article/id/210/

The Faerie Queene as Anime

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The Spenser Review

(((Cindy Weinstein)))Mar 23, 2025

The Dairie Queen

#DramaticCharactersGoofOff
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Gerald So Jan 21, 2025

Fellow fans of #RobertBParker are welcome to contribute to the discussion in my #Fans of Robert B. Parker public #Matrix room: https://chatterrific.blogspot.com/2023/11/fans-of-robert-b-parker-on-matrix.html

If you're a Parker fan or want to become one, feel free to join.

#Spenser #JesseStone #SunnyRandall

Fans of Robert B. Parker on Matrix

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Julie Howlin Jan 13, 2025

Edmund Spenser's first wife was called Machabyas Childe. Their wedding took place at a rather grand venue: St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster, which is now the church of the House of Commons.

10 things you might not know about Spenser:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/01/13-january-edmund-spenser.html

#poets #edmundspenser #spenser

13 January: Edmund Spenser

On this date in 1599 the poet Edmund Spenser died. 10 facts about him. Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London , aroun...

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Gerald So Dec 13, 2024

#Spenser has never been adapted faithfully enough for my liking. There was #TV's #SpenserForHire w/ #RobertUrich and #AveryBrooks, a few basic cable #Movies, and then the Netflix one. That shows there's been a fair amount of interest. I hope someone else takes a crack at it.

#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 13

Gerald So Dec 13, 2024

#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 13: Which novel to TV or movie adaptation was the most disappointing and why?

Tying into my Dec 12 reply mentioning #RobertBParker as my favorite author, I was most disappointed in the 2020 #Netflix movie #Spenser Confidential. Very loosely based on #AceAtkins' continuation novel Wonderland, the movie changed Spenser into an ex-con to suit producer-star #MarkWahlberg. Terrible. Atkins' novels did no such thing.

Gerald So Aug 10, 2024

#WritersCoffeeClub Aug 10: What's your favorite summer read for a getaway/holiday/vacation?

This Q takes me back to the summer of 1993, when I began #Reading #Novels w/ an eye toward writing one. I read #IanFleming's #JamesBond, Gregory Mcdonald's #Fletch, #RobertBParker's #Spenser...I can't pick one favorite book of all I read that summer.

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Gerald So May 5, 2024

#TomSelleck also said #RobertBParker's work was easy to adapt, that you could just take his dialogue from the books, yet the #Spenser movies Parker adapted himself were far less popular than Selleck's #JesseStone movies.

Gerald So Apr 1, 2024

#WritersCoffeeClub Apr 1: What's your favorite easter egg in your own work and/or another work of fiction?

I don't place much value on easter eggs relative to command of language, compelling characters, and similar concrete measures of writing, but in general I like brief character mentions or cameos like when #RobertCrais's #ElvisCole waves to his neighbor #MichaelConnelly's #HarryBosch or when #AceAtkins had #Spenser in Los Angeles on a case see Crais's #JoePike jogging.