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"My library is an archive of longings."—Susan Sontag

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Noah Van Sciver's contribution to "Seeing Nancy: A Tribute to Ernie Bushmiller’s Iconic Cartoon Character” opening June 13, on view through August 5 at the Fantagraphics Bookstore in Seattle.

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Blind Alley Guest No. 1

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Ratty and Mole by Arthur Rackham.

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These are Edward Gorey's illustrations for "The Visiting Star" from Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural, published by Doubleday. About this book, Aickman wrote the following to Kirby McCauley, his agent:

"I have never ceased to be impressed by Edward Gorey's illustrations to Hauntings, published, as you may remember, by Doubleday in 1968 and containing my story, "The Visiting Star". I frequently take the book down and look at the illustrations, and have submitted them to the admiration of all my friends. I had never before heard of Gorey, but Ted Klein told me that he was very well known. I was delighted to hear this, because he should be." (p. 194 in "Robert Aickman Selected Letters to Kirby McCauley").

(via the Robert Aickman FB group)

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such a short distance

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Artist Chris Thornley celebrates all the seasons with 4 color filled and joyous prints that not only reference classic moments from the Peanuts films, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” and “It’s the Easter, Beagle Charlie Brown” but also include unforgettable moments from Charles M. Schulz’s legendary Peanuts strips. (via Fire Wire)

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Why Children’s Books Matter

Children’s fiction has the power to suggest an alternative way of being. We need it now more than ever.

(via The Observer)

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A couple beautiful Sendak illustrations from the new picture book with Stephen King. Originally set designs for an opera production.

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St. Giga: Japanese Ambient Radio From A Past Future | In Sheeps Clothing

Listen to 82 hours of groundbreaking ambient radio from the legendary St. Giga's "Tide of Sound." File under: the internet is wonderful.

Thank you to Teen Daze and In Sheeps Clothing for turning me onto this treasure trove.

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That's right, pal! Your boy has an interview with the one-and-only Marc Torices from Barcelona. Grab your copy from Bubbles or hit-up your local indie comic store.

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Cake sale, Pat Perry

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The silence, Yasuhiro Ogawa

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Big fan of these covers for Robert Bloch's Lovecraft novel.

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Walton Ford in The Paris Review.

I wish I could get my hands on Issue 201.

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In despite of light, Cindy Ji Hye Kim (because)

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A large rectangular slab marks Breece’s grave in Milton Cemetery. Its border, the letters of his name, his dates, a small, centered cross, are raised in brass. His parents’ graves are just beside. His stone, flat to the ground, seems to deepen into the earth like a pillar. Two weeks before he died, Breece wrote to his mother about a dream he’d had: “I came to a place where the days were the best of every season, the sweetest air and water in spring, then the dry heat where deer make dust in the road, the fog of fall with good leaves. And you could shoot without a gun, never kill, but the rabbits would do a little dance, as if it were all a game, and they were playing it too. Then winter came with heavy powder-snow, and big deer, horses, goats and buffaloes—all white—snorted, tossed their heads, and I lay down with my Army blanket, made my bed in the snow, then dreamed within the dream.”

All of Time Is a Grave - The Paris Review

Breece D’J Pancake’s dozen stories, completed in the last four or five years of his life, include some of the best stories written anywhere,