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The ice cream truck parked in front of the school must have been so pissed. But we did stand in line for ice cream, umbrellas and all
Anirvan ChatterjeeThe Dune font was way more obscure than I imagined
#Dune #FrankHerbert #Typography
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frankie haggas my skills develop away from the crisis mode of learning a new skill, lean into my existing editorial skills, and leave me more free time, i find myself having time to fall into The Bad Mood, which happens when i'm not being sufficiently creative.
so tonight is my rip roaring friday night of... starting the seventh draft of my six-years-in-the-making book manuscript, from scratch, again.
To me Algren is best when he’s doing a voice. He’s also killer at writing around the point and letting the reader figure it out. And he does this thing where he’ll break up a dialogue-heavy scene with just one or two lines of narration, and then make those lines really cut.
This collection is uneven and there is a ton of violent and casual racism, which makes it an incredibly tough read in places. But it’s fascinating as an insight into Algren and when he is good, he’s good.
The stories are mostly very sad, and he made me care deeply about several of his characters within a couple of pages. Algren was writing in the 30s and 40s, against US capitalism and individualism, and you can feel the weight of structural oppression in these characters' lives. The overwhelming sense I get from these stories is that there was no point at which anything could have turned out differently for these people.
First book of the year: The Neon Wilderness by Nelson Algren.
I went into this as an enthusiastic Algren fan, and came out of it an enthusiastic fan of Algren’s best novel (The Man With the Golden Arm, which I read 15 years ago), and a more moderate fan of some of his short fiction.
Dr. Octavia CadeThere's a new story out at @ReckoningMag! Why We Bury Our Dead at Sea, by @tehnuka, is a really wonderful mix of whalefall and climate migration and grief and hope and activism, and you should read it immediately! https://reckoning.press/why-we-bury-our-dead-at-sea/
Why We Bury Our Dead at Sea | Reckoning
“Does the defendant admit posting this message after the sinking of the ship Deep Power?” The prosecution lawyer looked up from his papers, directly at Kaveri. “I quote: ‘A hundred oilers nowhere near make up for even a single whale fall, but I guess it’s a start, el-oh-el’.” My cousin, blank-faced in the dock, said,
Algren was a communist and expressly, consciously wrote marginalized characters, and I'm finding it fascinating to read him write, in the 30s and 40s, from the POV of a woman and give her a voice and agency and an intensely sympathetic treatment. But then in stories that centre male characters he describes women in very stereotypical, male-gazey terms. It feels progressive and simultaneously very of its time in such an odd way