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I've been reading bits and bobs from The Weird, the newest anthology edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer. It's huge and full of cool stuff, and through it I've discovered a couple of queer genre writers I didn't know about: Algernon Blackwood and Hugh Walpole.
Blackwood is difficult to read, because ( he will never use one word when twenty will do )
( Walpole is a more congenial writer )
In non-fiction, I'm enjoying David Kynaston's enormous tomes of social history Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 and Family Britain, 1951-1957. They're anecdotal as hell and organized by no recognizable principle, but wonderful for someone who, say, is trying to write Colditz fanfic set just after the end of the war.
Blackwood is difficult to read, because ( he will never use one word when twenty will do )
( Walpole is a more congenial writer )
In non-fiction, I'm enjoying David Kynaston's enormous tomes of social history Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 and Family Britain, 1951-1957. They're anecdotal as hell and organized by no recognizable principle, but wonderful for someone who, say, is trying to write Colditz fanfic set just after the end of the war.
