
Barry Moser’s illustration for Lynne Reid Banks’s “The Hare and the Black-and-White Witch.” From The Magic Hare, Avon, 1994.

Barry Moser’s illustration for Lynne Reid Banks’s “The Hare and the Black-and-White Witch.” From The Magic Hare, Avon, 1994.

Mostryn, 2020 by Rosa Loy (b. 1958)

Opportunity, 1993 by George Petrovich Kichigin

Green Hell, 2018 by Ryan Heskha (b. 1970)

Tipping Point, 2020 by David Lyle (b. 1971)













































From Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, 1984. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Cinematography by Koji Shiragami, Yukitomo Shudo, Yasuhiro Shimizu. and Mamoru Sugiura. Via Screenmusings.

Balls O’Clock, 2015 by Hilary Harkness (b. 1971)

From The Mansion; English translation by Beatriz Haugner.

From Donald Barthelme’s children’s book The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine; or The Hithering Thithering Djinn.

Woman Reading, 1884 by Susan Macdowell Eakins (

Purged some shelves and brought a box of old books to my favorite spot earlier this week. I was looking for books by William Melvin Kelley and Clarence Major but no luck. I picked up yet another Muriel Spark title (I am still hungry for this flavor), and also picked up Samuel Delany’s Nova. I failed Delany’s cult novel Dhalgren, but maybe this earlier novel will work for me. Or I will work for it. Or…you know. Also: Got a bunch of art books today from a neighbor leaving the country. Good for her. (That’s my boy Coyote in the upper left.)

Travelers by Katia Lifshin

Homage to Balthus and Freud, 2017 by Sasha Gordon (b. 1998)

Top Down, 2019 by Jerrell Gibbs (b. 1985)

Virtual Reality, 2015 by Laurie Lipton (b. 1960)