Jeet Heer Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Apropos of nothing, there's a great Gene Wolfe novella "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" about a rich autocrat who colonizes an alien world, near exterminates the natives, makes endless closes of himself, downloads one self to a robot, and tortures his kids. Well worth reading. https://t.co/aJW1jbhwaG

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To hypothesize this a bit: the older John Birch conspiracy theories were also media-ized. To join in, you felt like you were in a John Buchan novel and/or Hitchcock film.

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Quentin Tarantino's decision to dedicate the novel version of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" to Robert Blake raises some questions about the whole project.

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Stan Lee crafted a self-serving & almost entirely mythological story of creation of Marvel comics. A whole generation of researchers (Hatfield, Willaert, Riesman) have systematically dismantled it. Yet publications like New Yorker, Variety, Vanity Fair still repeat Lee's lies

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@levistahl @sarahw Only one person in a thousand would know who F. Scott Fitzgerald was if he had gone with the proposed title Trimalchio in West Egg instead of The Great Gatsby.

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This is great. If I had photoshopping skill's I'd do a mock cover of Jane Austen's Emma, with the words "the Inspiration behind Clueless" and the Clueless movie poster. https://t.co/phUf1rdcsW

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@xlorentzen Posthumous literary reputation is always unpredictable. I don't think very many in 1960s thought that Thomas Savage, John Williams & PK Dick would one day be canonical, although they all had their fans back then.

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Today I learned that science fiction writer Adam Roberts' new book "The This" is a novelization of "The Phenomenology of Spirit." https://twitter.com/arrroberts/status/1453337149823127559

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@plkrstnjn @adam_tooze From Daniel Walker Howe's What hath God wrought : the transformation of America, 1815-1848, p. 132. Many such stories in history of American development. https://t.co/C5Ey00Ylaf

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This action scene in Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination (1956) is basically imagining something very like the "bullet time" sequences of The Matrix, more than 4 decades before special effects caught up. https://t.co/4Mtmzn998T