1. A few Good Friday thoughts on a great writer who died this week, Gene Wolfe. Never read Gene Wolfe? You're still in his debt if you've ever enjoyed Pringles stacked potato chips. He helped invent those.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Have you read any good/great interpretive essays on the Book of the New Sun?
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Replying to @DouthatNYT
John Clute's review of the last book is the best short intro: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1983/01/30/the-urth-and-all-its-glory/5c9884ed-fd8d-468a-a9df-b236f4ac92d7/?utm_term=.09e1363092d0 … Clute wrote other valuable essays in his various collections, starting with Strokes.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Thanks. For me, in Wolfe's books the pages turn really quickly but the sense of missing some of the big picture also mounts steadily.
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I gave the wrong link to this excellent Kim Stanley Robinson essay on Wolfe. Here's the right one:https://www.nyrsf.com/2013/09/a-story-kim-stanley-robinson.html …
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