{"id":27729,"date":"2024-12-21T19:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=27729"},"modified":"2024-12-21T19:03:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T19:03:52","slug":"weekend-links-757","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/12\/21\/weekend-links-757\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 757"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/froebekapteyn.jpg\" alt=\"froebekapteyn.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Breath of Creation (c. 1926\u201334) by Olga Fr\u00f6be-Kapteyn.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Wormwoodiana: &#8220;&#8230;Gresham was well-read enough to know that while magic can be more than a MacGuffin in a fantasy story, neither fantasy nor thriller fiction lets magic unsettle readers much. [&#8230;] Even when it is good, the supernatural is never safe in a Williams story. Not conventional fantasy by half.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/wormwoodiana.blogspot.com\/2024\/12\/william-lindsay-gresham-reviews-charles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">G. Connor Salter<\/a> on William Lindsay Gresham&#8217;s enthusiasm for Charles Williams&#8217; novels.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Harper&#8217;s Magazine: <a href=\"https:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2025\/01\/a-man-out-of-time-dino-buzzati-christopher-tayler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Tayler<\/a> reviews Lawrence Venuti&#8217;s translations of Dino Buzzati&#8217;s <em>Il deserto dei Tartari<\/em> (now titled <em>The Stronghold<\/em>) which was published last year, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/products\/the-bewitched-bourgeois\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories<\/em><\/a> which will be out in January.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/denniscooperblog.com\/mine-for-yours-my-favorite-fiction-poetry-non-fiction-music-film-art-and-internet-of-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dennis Cooper<\/a>\u2019s favourite fiction, poetry, non-fiction, film, art, and internet of 2024. Thanks again for the link here!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Approach to J.L. Borges: A Borgesian pastiche in homage to the creator of <em>Ficciones<\/em> by <a href=\"https:\/\/hedgehogreview.com\/web-features\/thr\/posts\/the-approach-to-jl-borges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ed Simon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/marion-zimmer-bradleys-fantasy-magazine-v-04-n-03-15-1992-winter\/page\/4\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HP Lovecraft meets Fafhrd and The Grey Mouser<\/a>\u201d: an essay from 1992 by Fritz Leiber.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eu2wSpL6xoQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Can performing live on <em>The Old Grey Whistle Test<\/em> in January, 1974<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 DJ Food says \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.djfood.org\/lets-have-some-psychedelia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Let&#8217;s have some psychedelia<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 RIP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2024\/dec\/17\/zakir-hussain-obituary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zakir Hussain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zQAQkFfQdtE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Creation Dub 1<\/em><\/a> (1977) by Lee Perry &amp; The Upsetters | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MedVfXcQivY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Threat To Creation<\/em><\/a> (1981) by Creation Rebel\/New Age Steppers | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PthyTgc9Ukc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Theme from \u2018Creation\u2019<\/em><\/a> (1992) by Brian Eno<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Breath of Creation (c. 1926\u201334) by Olga Fr\u00f6be-Kapteyn. \u2022 At Wormwoodiana: &#8220;&#8230;Gresham was well-read enough to know that while magic can be more than a MacGuffin in a fantasy story, neither fantasy nor thriller fiction lets magic unsettle readers much. [&#8230;] Even when it is good, the supernatural is never safe in a Williams &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/12\/21\/weekend-links-757\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 757&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Weekend links 757","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,42,27,4,21,22,26,43,3,44,17,31],"tags":[145,2271,2413,13779,12994,3109,12126,9364,5418,13777,1687,1483,13780,13782,11321,13113,13778,8571],"class_list":["post-27729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-borges","category-design","category-fantasy","category-horror","category-lovecraft","category-magazines","category-music","category-painting","category-psychedelia","category-religion","tag-brian-eno","tag-can-group","tag-charles-williams","tag-christopher-tayler","tag-creation-rebel","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-dino-buzzati","tag-ed-simon","tag-fritz-leiber","tag-g-connor-salter","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-jorge-luis-borges","tag-lawrence-venuti","tag-lee-perry-the-upsetters","tag-new-age-steppers","tag-olga-frobe-kapteyn","tag-william-lindsay-gresham","tag-zakir-hussain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7df","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27729","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=27729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}