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Well if I know Dracula he loves sluts

The ungrammatical Kate Beaton does Bram Stoker. (She also does Marvel characters. Interview with Beaton here.) Happy Halloween...

Object relations theory

Freudian.

One down, one up

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(Napier; Symonds Street, Auckland; Peace Hotel, Shanghai; Paris)

Quote of the year

"Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in."

-- Thomas McGuane

Rocking interview at the NYT. The image (L to R: McGuane, Tennessee Williams, James Kirkwood) courtesy of a more urbane interview here. McGuane is a friend of Jim Harrison, my French publisher's favourite old guy.