Atlantis (1971) by Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos.
• “Given the workaday settings of many of his movies (a hotel, a summer camp, a science fair), their mortal stakes may come as a surprise, or at least as a paradox—yet paradox is at the heart of his entire body of work.” Richard Brody explores the New Yorker roots of Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch.
• “The power of the Kelmscott Chaucer is in how all the elements harmonise to create something visually spectacular.” Michael John Goodman on William Morris and his reinvention of book design.
• At Smithsonian Mag: “What actually sparks Will-o’-the-Wisps? A new study traces the science behind the mysterious, wandering lights“.
• At Dennis Cooper’s: A chronology of 26 things with Clive Barker’s name on them and what he thinks about that.
• At Wormwoodiana: The novels of Derek Raymond and the type of crime fiction he called “The Black Novel”.
• At Colossal: Untamed flora subsumes abandoned greenhouses in Romain Veillon’s Secret Gardens.
• At The Wire: Read an extract from James Tenney: Writings and Interviews on Experimental Music.
• The Strange World of…Mulatu Astatke.
• RIP Patricia Routledge.
• The Garden (1981) by John Foxx | The Secret Garden: Main Title (1993) by Zbigniew Preisner | Secret Garden (2011) by Sussan Deyhim
Thank you for linking to the Wormwoodania post!
Glad to be of service, your post received some social media attention as a result of the link. Also a reminder to myself that I ought to read the rest of Raymond’s Factory novels.