{"id":1380,"date":"2023-08-15T18:39:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T00:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2023-08-15T18:39:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T00:39:42","slug":"interesting-links-august-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/15\/interesting-links-august-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Links, August 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been writing very fast lately, but here are some links I saved in recent months, since the last time I did a links post:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, at his site David Bordwell has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/essays\/stout.php\">a <em>massive<\/em> critical appraisal of Rex Stout&#8217;s Nero Wolfe mysteries<\/a>, including some close reading of Stout&#8217;s prose that demonstrates how skillful it really is. It&#8217;s a great example of how even pulp fiction can benefit from close attention and real critical interest.<\/li>\n<li>Some links relating to the cartoonist Peter Blegvad, creator of the amazing strip <em>Leviathan<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leviathan.co.uk\/menu.html\">the strip&#8217;s official website<\/a> (which ill-advisedly chops up its sample strips, stranding the panels on a single lonely page each), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeliever.net\/an-interview-with-peter-blegvad\/\">a <em>Believer<\/em> interview<\/a>, and a site archiving an intriguing miscellany of things including a description of his <a href=\"http:\/\/amateur.org.uk\/imagined-observed-remembered\/\">&#8220;Imagined, Observed, Remembered&#8221; project<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/amateur.org.uk\/blegblog\/\">a blog that ran 2011&#8211;2015<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>On <em>Pseudopodium<\/em>, some musings on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pseudopodium.org\/ht-20140328.html#2014-04-26\">the underrated cartoonist M. K. Brown<\/a>. I wish more people knew about her; maybe then we&#8217;d get more of her work collected.<\/li>\n<li>A Tumblr blog called <a href=\"https:\/\/altcomics.tumblr.com\"><em>Altcomics<\/em><\/a> which collects weird comics, or things that are arguably comics, or images recontextualized as comics. A good way to expand your notions of what comics can be.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been enjoying <em>A Podcast to the Curious<\/em>, a podcast covering the stories of M. R. James and authors he influenced and was influenced by, for years, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrjamespodcast.com\/2023\/05\/episode-94-exploring-eleanor-scott-with-vicky-margree-and-dan-orrells\/\">their recent episode on Eleanor Scott&#8217;s &#8220;Randall&#8217;s Round&#8221;<\/a> was particularly good.<\/li>\n<li>Lastly, I&#8217;ve also been enjoying a new podcast called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnormalmapping.com\/starboard\"><em>Starboard Vineyard Tours<\/em><\/a> discussing works of SFF criticism. Three episodes so far.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been writing very fast lately, but here are some links I saved in recent months, since the last time I did a links post: First, at his site David Bordwell has a massive critical appraisal of Rex Stout&#8217;s Nero Wolfe mysteries, including some close reading of Stout&#8217;s prose that demonstrates how skillful it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/15\/interesting-links-august-2023\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interesting Links, August 2023<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}