Jeff VanderMeer

With all the talk of Napoleon movies, I highly recommend David G. Chandler's The Campaigns of Napoleon. You might not expect it to be a page-turner, but that was my experience. An amazing amount of interesting detail. Stole a few narrative techniques for describing battles. https://t.co/2AKXZZepT8

Jeff VanderMeer

Find out more about Philip K. Dick Award winner @AlisonStine's new novel Trashlands at this @PorterSqBooks event Thurs Nov 4, 7:30pm. I'll be joining Alison as will the wonderful @joanhewrites, for a discussion of climate fiction and much else, I'm sure. https://t.co/gAuX9XkAaB https://t.co/xjuiGVtME6

Jeff VanderMeer

DO NOT miss the release by @Wakefield_Press later this year of a book of writings by the amazing surrealist painter Remedios Varo OR the rare sighting of Jean Ray in English, a first since the 1960s in terms of an affordable, trade edition. http://wakefieldpress.com/forthcoming.html https://t.co/pqXbzgT6bb

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Jeff VanderMeer

Seriously? You too? And you want to know what we're right inside there reading? Well, I'm enjoying the hell out of John Darnielle's The Devil House and Ann was reading Craig Pittman's latest great book on Florida, The State You're In. @mountain_goats @craigtimes https://t.co/4PSoMKXhcq

Jeff VanderMeer

Thinking about my own fiction, self-indulgently, today, and thankful for the intensity and fever dream that created The Strange Bird book. https://t.co/eK8Bn1Hi7Q

Jeff VanderMeer

Enjoying the hell out of Gus Moreno's mordent, moving, and creepy This Thing Between Us. Definitely recommend. Great cover, too. @FSGOriginals https://t.co/8WUNs1O9DK

Jeff VanderMeer

@YardGoneWild ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’

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Jeff VanderMeer

Finally, after 3 tries, deeply into Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea, which is so very gorgeous in details of the natural world, brutal in depictions of theater and relationships and narrated by a man at best a cad at worst a monster but in such a way sublime moments shine thru. https://t.co/TEmhFWQeYC

Jeff VanderMeer

Then there was that scary period I asked Thomas Ligotti to critique some of my stories and they were in ALL CAPS like he was always shouting at me and angry. Later learned he was emailing from work, which had a proprietary caps-only email system.

Jeff VanderMeer

My essay on Ursula K. Le Guin and environmental themes in The Left Hand of Darkness, just posted over at @Orion_Magazine. "The fact that exists outside of the established narrative of a system must plead its case with extra vigor." @PicadorUSA @mcdbooks https://t.co/W882xKfqvy