A Night Alarm: The Advance! (1871) by Charles West Cope.
• At Spoon & Tamago: Meet the artist creating humorous, nihonga-style images of daily life with their rescue cat.
• The thirteenth installment of Smoky Man’s exploration of The Bumper Book of Magic has been posted (in Italian) at (quasi).
• New music: I Remember I Forget by Yasmine Hamdan; Clearwater by Maps And Diagrams.
His boss was a cards-to-his-chest type named Boynt Crosstown—and here I admit to having dropped that in as the merest excuse to revel right now in more of Pynchon’s christenings: Dr. Swampscott Vobe, Wisebroad’s Shoes, Connie McSpool, Glow Tripworth de Vasta, Cousin Begonia, “child sensation Squeezita Thickly”—for this author’s longstanding genius there on that private swivel chair of the Department of Character Appellations matches long-gone Lord Dunsany’s for imaginary gods and cities.
William T. Vollmann reviews Shadow Ticket, the new novel by Thomas Pynchon
• At Colossal: Twelve trailblazing women artists transform interior spaces in Dream Rooms.
• At Public Domain Review: Ballooning exploits in Travels in the Air (1871 edition).
• At the BFI: Josh Slater-Williams on where to begin with the films of Satoshi Kon.
• Colm Tóibín explains why he set up a press to publish László Krasznahorkai.
• At Print Mag: Ken Carbone on a pool of perfection in Paris.
• Mix of the week: Bleep Mix #310 by Rafael Anton Irisarri.
• Steven Heller’s font of the month is OTC Textura.
• Ron Mael’s favourite albums.
• Shadowplay (1979) by Joy Division | Shadow (1982) by Brian Eno | Shadows (1994) by Pram