{"id":23727,"date":"2023-11-22T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T16:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=23727"},"modified":"2023-11-22T16:02:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T16:02:27","slug":"the-corset-and-the-jellyfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/11\/22\/the-corset-and-the-jellyfish\/","title":{"rendered":"The Corset and the Jellyfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tachyonpublications.com\/product\/the-corset-the-jellyfish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/bantock.jpg\" alt=\"bantock.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Cover design by Brian DeVoot and Elizabeth Story.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the post this week, the latest book from Tachyon, a collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/tachyonpublications.com\/product\/the-corset-the-jellyfish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oulipo-inflected Surrealism from Nick Bantock<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Little is known of the fascinating manuscript that Nick Bantock has come to possess. It was discovered in an attic in North London, stuffed into a battered cardboard box, and unceremoniously delivered directly to Nick\u2019s doorstep. Inside the package lay one hundred evocatively absurd stories, one hundred humorous drawings of strangely familiar, quirkish glyphs, plus a cryptically poetic note signed only as \u201cHH.\u201d (Possibly the well-known, eccentric billionaire, Hamilton Hasp?)<\/p>\n<p>In these stories\u2014each consisting of precisely 100 words\u2014strange creatures slip through alleyways, and eerie streets swallow people whole. Taken altogether, they may constitute a puzzle that no one has been able to solve thus far. Could there even be one missing story?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t design this one but I was happy to see a preview copy which I described as &#8220;A tapestry of exquisite miniatures&#8221;. Each of Bantock&#8217;s illustrations is printed in colour, which I think is a first for the publisher. Given the time of year, <em>The Corset and the Jellyfish<\/em> is an ideal gift for any visitors to Calvino&#8217;s invisible cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cover design by Brian DeVoot and Elizabeth Story. In the post this week, the latest book from Tachyon, a collection of Oulipo-inflected Surrealism from Nick Bantock: Little is known of the fascinating manuscript that Nick Bantock has come to possess. It was discovered in an attic in North London, stuffed into a battered cardboard box, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/11\/22\/the-corset-and-the-jellyfish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Corset and the Jellyfish&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,21,18],"tags":[13181,383],"class_list":["post-23727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-surrealism","tag-nick-bantock","tag-tachyon-publications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-6aH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}